Yard Sale!

Hello everyone! I've decided on hosting a yard sale in October to help raise funds. I think this will be a great way to allow people to donate unused household items to a wonderful cause. If you have any items you'd like to donate and are in the Phoenix area, please contact me-you can post a to this blog, by this Friday, October 2nd. I will be more than happy to come by and pick items up-I'm all over Phoenix, Chandler, Tempe, and Scottsdale, and am more than willing to cruise out to the west side of town for donations. I'll host the garage sale mid to late October, when the mornings cool a little more-hopefully!!

That's it for the fundraising update this week & my long run is scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday. Hopefully that will go as well as last weekend! My runs during the week where really good, and I enjoyed a wonderful yoga class last week with Melissa, my favorite teacher, visiting from Saudi Arabia! I miss her-she has the very best yoga classes-I always feel like a new person after her classes. (Hence the yard sale idea came to me after class!)

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend-thanks again for your support!

Shauna

7 miles & $1,000 to go!

Gustavo was my "personal trainer" this morning! He pushed me through my long run this morning-70 minutes-probably almost 7 miles. It was a nice run, and I know Gustavo can run so much faster than me, so I'm glad he just hung out behind me to keep me going! He actually ran an addition 10 minutes, my legs where feeling pretty heavy at 70 minutes. I got through "the rut" though, and have left it behind!! Thanks for the run Gustavo!

I'm only a $1,000 away from meeting my goal-last week was a very slow donation week, I'm hoping it will start picking up again-donations seem to come in spurts! Thanks again to every one's support! I'm thinking of doing a garage sale to help pick it up-my fundraising is going great, I'm just excited to hit the goal, and hopefully raise more!

Till next time!

Shauna

Taylor Souza-my inspiration for getting out of my rut this week!

Long Hot Days

Sorry I've been MIA from my Blog. My training has been going okay, but I feel like I've hit a rut-which happens with running. I have to find away to break through it! I am going to try and run with others-either my Team in Training Group (5:30 sat mornings-I do early all week, sat too?!), or I know of some friends who have either taken up running or who are training for something. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm going to plan for my long hour run next weekend with someone. I think part of the problem is, it's just soo hot still! Early in the morning, before 6, it's perfect, but on the weekend I love to sleep in until about 8, but I can't run at 8! Well I can but it's the treadmill, which is so boring right now. See-it's my rut! I think once October hits the weekends will be easier, but then it will start getting dark outside in the morning! It will work out!!

As far as fundraising-I had a great week! Thank you to everyone-I just sent in some more donations Friday, and will be very close to $1,000 soon!! I still have $900 to go, so if you haven't had the opportunity to donate, & would like too, please do. I would love to hit my $1900 mark and then raise more for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!!

Thanks to every one's support! Have a good week everyone!!

Shauna