upgrade!

I attended the kick-off meeting today, and got a lot of good ideas for fundraising, learned a bit, etc. Most importantly, I actually UPGRADED to the full Chicago Marathon! I did this after speaking to some trainers about what my distance and times have been the past month, and they said that I should definitely do the marathon. For example:

Week 1, Half Marathon group training: 1 mile run
Week 1, Marathon group training: 3 mile run

Considering I'm doing 3 already comfortably, it didn't make sense to decrease down to one mile. Also, its a hell of a lot easier to get to the north lakeshore path than the south lakeshore path for a carless person.

So I guess my blog name is out of date, but oh well. I'm really proud of myself for doing this, and I hope my friends, family and coworkers show their support by sponsoring me.

Probably the most interesting fact I learned today was that 5,000 people in Chicago living with AIDS/HIV will have their care provided for one year as a result of the money we raise. That is a shit load of people that are impacted by a bunch of strangers running together.