Week 4 recap

There was definitely a few times this week where I questioned why I was forcing myself to run outside in the cold. Boston had its first actually cold week of the winter and my motivation level wasn't as high as I would like. Luckily, I only had to run once on my own this past week (Monday's run) with TMRICE's track Tuesday, DMFC's Crossroads Thursday and DMFC's organized Saturday run. Great people were there each time to help me through my run, notably Jill and Ivan on Tuesday at track, and Steve and Colleen for the long and hilly 16 mile Saturday run.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Total
Week 4 projected	4-5 miles	6-7 miles	Cross train	6-7 miles	Cross train	14-16 miles	OFF	30-35 miles
Actual	5.01 miles	6.4 miles	54 minutes elliptical and core	7.4 miles and core	52 minutes elliptical and core	16 miles	OFF	34.8 miles

I did my first morning cross-training workout this weekend and it was horrible. I was so tight to start I felt the first 10-15 minutes was just me trying to get my legs moving. I will definitely have to try and find some way to warm up quicker, maybe do P90X's warm-up for 3-5 minutes or something.

On the fundraising front, it was a decent week with donations from two lab peeps, Wendy and Sasha. Thank you both so much!

In order to help reach my minimum goal, I decided to try an approach where each person donating can "sponsor" a kilometer of the marathon that way when I am running the race, I can be even more motivated with each section knowing that someone was behind me for each piece of the race.

I know it is still a lot of money to ask for especially for those of you who are Canadian (with the horrible exchange rate currently) but 100% of the funds go directly to the Barr fund at Dana-Farber, which invests towards projects and research aimed at developing novel approaches to cancer therapy.

I am really horrible at asking people for money/donations but anything you could give would not only help me reach my goal but also help Dana-Farber, one of the top cancer institutes in the USA, work towards the many cures we need.

14 weeks to go to Boston.