hello hello hello,
it's john / murph, chiming in roughly 24 hours after our most recent group training session - it literaly took that long to recover!! our coaches have started abusing us, basically: we run little 5 minute chunks of leg-loosening, then do a bunch of lunges. then we run another 5 minute chunk followed by several minutes of squats. repeat. repeat. repeat. then run 2-3 more miles. what?!
okay, but then after all of that, we 1. learned how to change a flat tire (educational AND entertaining), and 2. went to a sort of motivational roundup to ground the teams in our larger purpose and cause: the search for a cure. two honored team-mates spoke about their experience in treatment / survival. they were amazing. all honored team-mates got up and added our thanks to the runners, bikers, and swimmers working to raise $9Mil all told this year. it was awesome.
afterwards, we mixed it up a little bit with other participants and staff (in the midst of a growing grumbling beginning about sore legs). we had a ton of laughs, i got invited to speak at a future leukemia-lymphoma society event, and i found out that one participant, who likes my nickname A LOT, encouraged her parents to name their new dog Murphy so they could call it Murph. i'm still totally weirded out by that; it makes me feel semi-famous. i secretly love it, too, though! (we'll post a picture later of me working the crowd for proof)
later today we'll ride gym-bikes for an hour. an hour!!! on these legs?! yes. and it will be good.
PS - we have reached the $1500 mark in fundraising!!!! thanks loads for all of your continued support.