Reflection

11 Days to go!

I think my body is still in shock with the 3:45am thing! See yesterday's post! This morning at 1:53am to be exact, I woke up... thirsty! I then began to think and my brain would not shut off! By 2:41am I went to the freezer and put an ice pack on my pillow too cool the back of my neck. That sometimes relaxes me and I can go back to sleep! It must have worked because the next time I woke up, it was almost 7am and his alarm clocks were going off! Jeremy accidently elbowed my left eye and broke a drinking glass this morning... so it was eventful, to say the least!

I used that hour to pray for others and think about my race! The cause is so great and very emotional! To my knowledge, I have no family history of Lymphoma or Leukemia but I have met people who do have these types of cancers and their stories touch my heart and make me feel like I should do more!

I have done more! I joined the bone marrow registry, signed up for donate life California (pink dot on drivers license), and begun donating blood (hopefully regularly)! It brings such joy to me to know that I have helped someone else!

Cancer unfortunately lurk our family history, but I do think that most people nowadays have it in theirs too!

Back to my training! I feel like I am ready and my body is being stubborn with the continued training. Although I am getting the required miles in... but no extras, LOL! I ran 6 miles with Coach Paul and Gwynne came out to walk with his wife Diana and other TNTers! After the exercise was over, Gwynne and I went to my place: hung out and had Munchies Pizza until almost 10pm! Jeremy came home around 9pm and grabbed a bite to eat before going out to swing dance!

Today it will be Coach Paul and I, as we run 4 miles! Once I am done with these 4 miles this afternoon, I hope to watch a movie and relax! My tap class is tomorrow and I want to let my feet have a break! Then Friday I am resting... I think my dad and I are going to the movies!

Saturday is 10 miles at Heritage park (our normal meeting place). I expect most of the participants will be at training this Sat, since we are having our send off meeting that day!

The send off meeting gets us prepared for the race event! This Sat. will be our last meeting before the event! Anxiety sets in more and more when the thought comes to mind! We will be getting our race day shirts and decorating them with puffy paint! We will put our names on the front of the shirt so people can cheer us on and I will put my honored teammate Jason's name on my shirt too! I have a reminderband/wristbands for some angels and fighters that will fill my right arm!

Angels: Evan Cousineau 9yrs old (ALD), Christian Barker 14yrs old (ALL), McKenna Johnson 10 yrs old (ALCL)

Fighters: Jason Cooney 3 1/2yrs old (ALL), Coleman Larson 4yrs old (Medulloblastoma)

As I go through the miles in 11 days I will be thinking of many more kids who I have come to know via caringbridge and carepages.com... their are so many... unfortunately it could fill up my shirt and then some! Thank you all for this inspiration to find a cure!