I Did It!

It’s official!

GOAL ACHIEVED!!!

I’m not going to lie and say this way easy, there were a lot (a LOT) of sleepless nights wondering if and how I would be able  to reach $3900, and I cannot thank all of you enough for helping reach this amazing goal.  

The day I met the goal it was like my brain finally had time to breath.  I didn’t have to spend every moment trying to figure out what I was going to do next to raise money, hoping that those who said they would donate would come through, and worrying about the sheer volume of what I was trying to do.  I know there are so many people that do and raise so much more than I had/did, but at the same time there are way more who never attempt to do what I did so I am incredibly proud to have accomplished it.

And now, there is just a small matter of running a half marathon with a bad lung.  No problem….right?  Eep.

Since I ran 10K last weekend, I had planned to run 14K this week as I worked on bringing my mileage back up for the half next month (a month from today it’ll all be over and I’ll already be home from San Fran!) but my body had other plans.  I spent yesterday sleeping, and moaning on the couch feeling like I was going to die.  It was a super fun day, and since I could barely stand up there was no way I was running.

And all I could think about was, “what if this happens when I get there?” and I said to myself, “Suzanne.  You’ll do what you always do, you’ll suck it up and do the race and not tell anyone you feel like dying.”  And I know it’s true, if my fibromyalgia is acting up I’ll still go out and do it, but I really (really, really) hope that isn’t the case.  I really want to enjoy the race and not spend the time counting down the seconds until I can crawl in a bed an pass out.

Only time will tell what happens there, but in the meantime I’m going to try to stay optimistic.  

So while I didn’t run on the weekend, I did teach a full week of classes, and went out with Emma this afternoon to earn our Gimme S’More medals.

And this weekend I most definitely must run.  I’m planning for 14K, 18K the following week and either 16 or 20 the week after (depending on how I feel) then it’s taper week!

I can’t believe the race is less than a month away!  Yikes!