Late post...

Hi!

Belatedly posting about this weekend's10.5 mile run... It wasn't terribly eventful, which is a good thing, but I finally got to run with my friend Lisa for the first time in ages, which is a great thing!

Lisa and I met while doing Ultimate Bootcamp in Charlestown last summer and immediately bonded over a shared desire to do some local runs, London and British food (she's British!), being new to Boston, and a definite mutual love of shopping!! For months, we ran around the Charles river, even did some 5Ks and 10Ks together. Lisa's relatively new to running, but picked it up superfast!

She decided to run the Boston Marathon at about the same time as me, but for Team Fox, which is Michael J. Fox's charity team for Parkinson's disease. Lisa's Nan passed away from Parkinson's earlier this year and she wanted to do this marathon in her honor. Unfortunately, since Lisa started training for Boston, she's been plagued with injuries. For my running friends, I'll just say two letters: I.T.

What her sports therapist says is that her knees just weren't built for running. She hasn't let that stop her though and she's been stretching, resting, icing - all the things you're supposed to do. She hadn't been able to do any long runs - till this weekend!

We took the "T" out to Newton and ran back, basically following the last 10.5 miles of the Boston Marathon course. We took it easy (which was good for me too!) and made it in about 2 hours .We lucked out weather-wise, because it was a balmy 35 degrees. That's right, Angelenos. A Balmy 35.

This week, I've been taking it a little bit easy for no apparent reason. I ran around the river for the first time in ages on Monday because the roads were finally clear enough to risk it.. And this morning, I got up and met Beth at 6am in 8 degree weather for our Bunker Hill HILLS. BRRRRrrrrr!! It was cold!

Tonight I get on a plane for LA to see all of my LA friends. Very much looking forward to that! I won't be doing any long runs this weekend, but plan to do the Chinatown Firecracker 10K race on Sunday with my Team in Training friends, then stuff my face with Dim Sum.

I'll post pics and update the blog when I get back!

As for fundraising, things are going pretty well! I've already got almost $1000, and that's just from one round of emails! Feeling very good that my friends and family are going to come through and help me meet my goal!

Off to LA...
More when I return!
xoxo