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| Walking my 100th mile! |
This last week I hit some pretty big milestones. First of all on Friday I hit training mile 100! Crazy, to think I have already walked over 100 miles in just under 2 months. 110 miles as of today in fact. I feel pretty accomplished. So I am going to give myself a little shout out.... YEAH! Go me! Funny to think that I'll walk 60 miles in 3 days and I am so excited about taking 2 months to get to 100. Oh well, gotta celebrate the little things! There, now that that is out of my system I can continue...
On the fundraising front I have almost reached another milestone! As of today I am sitting pretty at $2155! I have a pending donation of $50 that I will be receiving from my Stella & Dot jewelry fundraiser. Thanks again to my awesome Consultant for doing such a great job and of course for being a terrific neighbor! Once that $50 goes through I will only need to raise $95 and the big weekend is still 16 weeks away! So wonderful not to have to worry about fundraising. Now I just get to focus on training and of course helping out my team reach their goals. :)
So of my 110 miles, my husband has walked 98 of those miles with me. Pretty awesome for him, especially since he isn't even doing the 3-Day! And yes, I know I have already written about how special it is that we get to spend all this time together, but I don't care, I am going to say it again... It is so great that we are doing this together!! (Well training together anyway). I already told him that he is doing the 3-Day with me in 2013, if I survive the 60 miles this November! :) But it has been good for us. The thing is that our work schedules for the past year and a half have been opposite each other. I work mornings and he works nights. One of us is always home to take care of the kids, but rarely both of us together. It has been tremendously difficult, but now we are finally getting on some kind of a schedule and really making an effort to do things together. The other thing that we had been struggling with is whether or not we really wanted to live here in San Diego. We both have family here so that had been the main reason we have stayed. But San Diego is a very expensive city to live in and when you combine that with the fact that we have terrible work schedules it has been really difficult to want to stay. But sometime during the month of March we really put our feet down and said, "Yes! We want to live here!" I think from that point things have changed for us. Our schedules seemed to magically open up (more like we are finding and making the time rather than just saying we never have any). We have also managed to get out and enjoy the city we live in and what it has to offer. In fact in one week we walked 3 different places that we have never even bothered to go to before. Sure we have talked about it... but never actually gotten off our butts and done something about it.
On the fundraising front I have almost reached another milestone! As of today I am sitting pretty at $2155! I have a pending donation of $50 that I will be receiving from my Stella & Dot jewelry fundraiser. Thanks again to my awesome Consultant for doing such a great job and of course for being a terrific neighbor! Once that $50 goes through I will only need to raise $95 and the big weekend is still 16 weeks away! So wonderful not to have to worry about fundraising. Now I just get to focus on training and of course helping out my team reach their goals. :)
So of my 110 miles, my husband has walked 98 of those miles with me. Pretty awesome for him, especially since he isn't even doing the 3-Day! And yes, I know I have already written about how special it is that we get to spend all this time together, but I don't care, I am going to say it again... It is so great that we are doing this together!! (Well training together anyway). I already told him that he is doing the 3-Day with me in 2013, if I survive the 60 miles this November! :) But it has been good for us. The thing is that our work schedules for the past year and a half have been opposite each other. I work mornings and he works nights. One of us is always home to take care of the kids, but rarely both of us together. It has been tremendously difficult, but now we are finally getting on some kind of a schedule and really making an effort to do things together. The other thing that we had been struggling with is whether or not we really wanted to live here in San Diego. We both have family here so that had been the main reason we have stayed. But San Diego is a very expensive city to live in and when you combine that with the fact that we have terrible work schedules it has been really difficult to want to stay. But sometime during the month of March we really put our feet down and said, "Yes! We want to live here!" I think from that point things have changed for us. Our schedules seemed to magically open up (more like we are finding and making the time rather than just saying we never have any). We have also managed to get out and enjoy the city we live in and what it has to offer. In fact in one week we walked 3 different places that we have never even bothered to go to before. Sure we have talked about it... but never actually gotten off our butts and done something about it.
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| Admiring the view during a 7 miler along the bay |
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| Taking a much needed break after 2.2 miles straight uphill to reach the top of Cowles Mtn! |
So now we have walked Lake Miramar (quite a few times), a nice stretch of the bay, and Cowles Mtn, (the highest peak in the City of San Diego at 1592 feet) all because I made a commitment. And by the way, Cowles Mtn was incredible! A bit of a killer since of course we took the long way, but really amazing to stand at the top and overlook the beautiful city we live in and just be grateful to live here. So Thank you Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure. Thank you for making my life better by making me stop talking and start doing and just take the time to appreciate where I live! So that has definitely been a major milestone not only in my life, but my family's life too.
