As you might be able to tell from this picture of me at last Saturday's practice this has been a rough week. It has been cold (yes, I am wearing multiple coats). And I have been tired, bone tired.

But it should be cold, it being winter and all. And I should be tired because it very well may be true to say that I am exercising harder and more than I have in my life--possibly with the exception of when I was a high school athlete.

Even though I'm tired and getting out there in the frigid wind is a little tough, I still want to do this. I want to do it because the fundraising dollars are starting to roll in and you've committed to me. So I won't let you down. And I won't let myself down. And I won't let the people who've been through things much more difficult, not to mention not of their choosing, I'm talking about muscling through chemo and radiation and surviving cancer (you know who you are).