I'm happy to say that my fundraising is doing quite well, although nowhere near as well as my mom's... she got her $1800 within 2 hours of sending out her request letter! But on the bright side I did get a large donation from my dad, and a couple of donations from friends. It is great seeing the people out there who are supporting me! I did have one huge surprise as a donation. When I sent out my e-mail, I also sent it to my manager at the restaurant, who then passed it on to her e-mail list. When I came in to work on Saturday, Callie, my manager, gave me a check for $200 from her grandmother! I thought that was so sweet, her granny in Texas was contributing for someone she didn't even know. I think that is what makes this such a special experience.
The training is also getting better, even though I have two very tired puppies right now. It's hard because I get home from work late, so I can't take them out at night, and since I get home late I don't exactly wake up early. So today we went for an hour long walk, but it was from 10:30 to 11:30. Needless to say, it was really hot! Especially for Atka, since he has black fur. Hopefully it will help him shed some of his excess weight too. Tonight I have my class, so I get back around 9 pm, which means I should be able to take them out for another walk then, when it is dusk and much much much cooler. I have no idea what the temperature is now, but there definitely weren't as many trees as I had been expecting. I modified my old running route (when I was training for Bolder Boulder) and instead of going to the end of the creek path and back, I made a triangle, which I assume added some more distance to it. All in all, we walked 2.77 miles in an hour. I actually found this really cool thing online where you can map your routes, so I am going to try to include that in here, hopefully it will work out.
It looks like it was successful. Hopefully it works for other people to look at too. But this is a really cool website I found called http://www.mapmyrun.com which is really nice because I still haven't found my pedometer since I moved so I really have no concept of the distance I am going. I am planning longer walks too, but I'll have to be better about going earlier in the day, especially if I plan on taking the dogs with me. I know Atka is a little bit tougher since his is a big black dog and slightly overweight, so the heat really affects him. But I thought since Skylar is a bundle of energy she wouldn't be affected as much. I was wrong.
Well, that is my update for now. I will try working with that site more, so that way I can really calculate my training accurately.
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