Donations, donations....

7 days off training due to helping friends move to Houston + 5 days off for being sick = ONE TOUGH LONG RUN! Let's get down to the meat of the situation. The bad news is...my feet hurt, my calves hurt, I feel like I've been run over and I still have a house to clean before Jaxen's baptism party tomorrow. The good news is...I am back training and meeting my goals. I think getting sick really slowed down my progress but I am determined to continue to make it in Chicago. I am discouraged about one thing though. While we have talked this and shared with people WHY we are putting our bodies and families through this, we have had only 2 people donate to our cause. It makes it really hard to want to keep going when raising money for people in Africa is our reason for doing this and we haven't had many donations. It is going to cost us personally a lot to get to Chicago to run this and I'd really like it if we had more in donations then what we are putting into it to get there. Please...if you are reading this and feel led to donate we would appreciate anything. $5, $10...no amount is to small to help further the kingdom of God! We are officially half way through our training and I think we have proven ourselves to others that we are actually going to do this. Anyway, back to our run today. We actually ran in the morning which hasn't happened in awhile but needs to happen more because it will help us see what we need to change to make it easier on our bodies. There was a funny point during the run...my nose would not quit draining. I was sniffling and snorting through but I begged Jerod to run ahead of me and grab me some napkins or tp out of one of the convience stores coming up so I could blow my nose. He of course looked at me like I was crazy but he loves me enough that he did it for me. I'm sure I looked pretty funny blowing my nose while running down the street! I did walk more (a lot more) during this run but I was determined I was going to finish either way. I'm going to rest tomorrow and get a massage on Monday and get back to our training schedule so next weekends run won't be so hard. It ended up that I did 13.5 miles and Jerod did 15. I finished in 2 hours and 45 minutes which shows that I can still finish the 26 in the right amount of time. Even after being sick. Jerod finished pretty much right behind me and now we are on to the next thing! One more week down, one more week closer, and two people still as dedicated as we were in the beginning. God bless you today!!