13 MILES - 13 DAYS
13 minutes was the most I could run when I decided to take on this challenge. It took 13 days to reach my first personal record of 3 miles. 13 days later that record went up to 7 miles. I stopped training for 13 days because of a foot injury. 13 degrees was the temperature today when I reached my new record of 12 miles.
There are 13 days left for that 13 mile run to help the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation for a world without lupus. I ask you to help me take those last steps for the final goal:
Step 1: Commitment
Step 2: Discipline
Step 3: Perseverance
Step 4: Determination
Step 5: Will
Step 6: Hats, Gloves, Jacket
Step 7: Bengay & Tiger Balm
Step 8: Ibuprofen
Step 9: Your support
Step 10: Your encouragement
Step 11: Your faith
Step 12: Your will
Step 13: Your donation
Steps 9 through 13 are all yours; let’s make it together to the finish line. Together we can take these 13 steps for a Life Without Lupus.
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13 MILLAS – 13 DIAS
13 minutos fue lo que inicie corriendo cuando me comprometi con este nuevo reto. 13 dias me tardo llegar a mi nuevo record de 3 milllas. 13 dias despues subi ese record a 7 millas. 13 dias estuve fuera de entrenamientos por una lesión. 13 grados era la temperatura el día de hoy que hice mi ultima practica de distancia que logre 12 millas.
Faltan 13 dias para lograr esas 13 millas y aportar a S.L.E. LUPUS FOUNDATION para un Mundo Sin Lupus. Te pido tu colaboración para que me ayudes a dar los últimos pasos a la meta final:
Paso 1: Compromiso
Paso 2: Disciplina
Paso 3: Perseverancia
Paso 4: Determinación
Paso 5: Voluntad
Paso 6: Gorro, Guantes, Chumpa
Paso 7: Cofal
Paso 8: Musflex
Paso 9: TU APOYO
Paso 10: TU ANIMO
Paso 11: TU FE
Paso 12: TU VOLUNTAD
Paso 13: TU DONACION
Tu eres el 9, 10, 11, 12, y 13...lleguemos juntos al final.
Juntos demos estos 13 pasos para acercarnos a un MUNDO SIN LUPUS.
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Run, Run, Run...
Saturday January 14: Personal record: 3.4 miles! Thank you coach Scott Cohen and the rest of the Team for the Central Park morning run. You kept me going!
Tuesday January 17: 1/4 mile running drills in Central Park; exhausting and amazing. I am liking the short-distance speed. Thank you nice evening weather for treating us well.
Saturday January 22: Excuse us leftover snow and wind and cold, we are running for Lupus and beating our personal record: 10K today around Lower Manhattan!!! Thank you to my best running buddy, Marco, for going the distance.
Saturday January 28: It's not just about perseverance and endurance for the long runs, it's also about cranky knees and an even crankier right foot, grrr. However, they didn't get in the way of a new record: 7.6 miles. Thank you God for wonderful January weather and NYC's ever-changing sites.
...: No running updates, right foot is currently on hold until it sees Dr.Pino! Thank you for your continuing support!!!
Tuesday February 21: ...aaaaaand, we're back!!! After my foot's two week strike, xrays, MRI, we find out I have a bionic foot (that's what my mom calls it), or rather a 4th unnecessary, annoying muscle in my foot, which is fighting its way for space against everything else in there. So we have a green light for running again, slowly and safely to see what happens. Putting on my sneakers tonight and taking them out to Central Park for a 3 mile run was the greatest feeling. Thank you Dr.Pino!!! Thank you coach Scott!
Saturday February 25: Longer distance with 'new' foot and I think I can safely say "Half-Marathon, HERE WE COME!" 6 painfree miles. YAY!
Saturday March 03: New PR of 11.8miles!!! Did part of the 1/2Marathon course in reverse. Hills on Central Park for the end...mmm not so brilliant, but we got there :)