June Update! 24 days and counting!

It has been far too long since I updated this!  So sorry!

Most importantly, my list of most favorite people/companies:

Albertson's

Giovanni's Pizza

Kaylan Basacker

Lee & Carol Kemper-Mccall

Molly Kious

Terryann Satterfield

Vons

I'm at $3,406!  88%!!  Thank you thank you thank you to those of you who have donated!  I cannot thank you enough!

In April Rachel and I held a fundraiser at Giovanni's Pizza called, "Take a Slice out of Cancer!"  They gave us 10% of profits we brought in.  Lots of our friends and members of our sorority came out to support, and we made about $32 between the two of us.  It was great for a fun evening of playing games and hanging out at a pizza parlor!

Eating pizza to find a cure!

In May we held another fundraiser, but this time we wanted to donate all of the profits, so we did it ourself.  Gamma Phi Beta hosted our Spaghetti Feed Fundraiser, and we invited friends, family and anyone who wanted to pay $5 to eat a big plate of spaghetti, meatballs, garlic bread and a drink.  We raised a total of $422!!  And the people who helped out at this event deserve their own special recognition, because we could not have pulled it off without the people laboring over pounds and pounds (24 to be exact) of pasta, buying more sauce, serving up hot garlic bread, setting up tables/chairs, cleaning up the kitchen and manning the ticket table.

Alex Blacker

Alyssa Skipper

Barbara Roseland

Deb Watkins

Jackie Li

Karen Kious

Ken Kious

Meredith Meaux

Marissa Floro

They're basically my heroes :)

And I'm sure most of you heard about it, but the Santa Barbara hills caught on fire a couple of weeks ago, and the smoke and ash + my asthma + a chest cold = TERRIBLE.  I didn't run for an entire two weeks because I had a difficult time breathing and our coaches told us not to go outside unless we absolutely had to.  So getting back on the horse has been very difficult.  But I'm doing it!  With a countdown of less than a month, this is serious.  This upcoming Saturday is our longest run yet.... the 20 miler!!!  If I can make it to 20, I can make it to 26.2, so I'm hydrating, carbing up, and getting lots of sleep in preparation.  I'll be sure to update you all on how that goes!

On Sunday half of our team ran the San Diego Rock'n'Roll Marathon.  Their pictures are fantastic!  Everyone got medals for finishing, and limped to our track practice yesterday to wish us luck and share their stories.  Everyone finished.  I am impressed and proud of Team in Training for getting everyone to the point where they can finish!  Even one guy whose knee was killing him so badly that he had to walk the last six miles finished.  And he got a better time than I'll get running!

I wish all of you could meet my team members and coaches.  They are such amazing people, and I'm going to be sad when the season is over!