the charity cases

well, first things first, i should admit that i am the worst co-blogger ever... but i'm working on it! and rather than attempt to catch up on the past few weeks when i should have been contributing, i'll just tackle the past 24 hours.

yesterday was one of those beautiful running days that you hope and hope and hope and hope for but typically get stuck with 85+ degrees, 90% humidity and sweat dripping off parts of your body you didn't know could actually sweat (inside your elbows anyone?). with our beirut tournament fundraiser scheduled for the afternoon, lana and i got up at the crack of dawn to get our miles in... 16.5 miles before 10am isn't too bad, though my legs are currently telling me otherwise.

anyway, the beirut tournament went great, except for the fact that i'm pretty sure we didn't make much of a profit (we'd hoped our team name, the "charity cases," would have helped people feel more generous). but i guess that happens. as i woke up inexplicably this morning at the crack of dawn, i attempted to do the math of how much we spent on the party and took in yesterday and realized that even though we might not have brought in a huge sum, this whole marathon-training and fundraising thing is about baby steps. you don't go from 2 miles to 26.2 miles overnight, just like you can't raise thousands in one event. so stay tuned for more fundraising ideas and events... and for lana and i to eventually make it to our goals :)

p.s. for three saturdays this summer (august 9, 16, 23) an almost 7-mile stretch of park avenue is closed to traffic, which is pretty cool. we ran up from 14th street to the upper east last night on the last leg of our long run. lana has some interesting pics of us in front of grand central on park ave... we both look like we just ran gajillions of miles so we'll see if she'll actually post them...