Restock your bookshelf while helping a charity with Debbie & Jodi’s first-ever book swap for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. For a measly donation of $15, you could walk away with dozens of books, even if you don’t have any to swap. Green Apple Books has kindly donated more books than we could have imagined, …
Well, I’m coming up on the last month of training before the big hike. I’d hoped to have my fundraising all wrapped up by now, but this year is a tough one for many financially, so it’s a bit harder than my previous hike for LLS in the booming days of 2006. Having said that, …
Saturday’s hike was our longest yet, 5.5 hours and a perfect round 12 miles (we walked a little extra distance in the parking lot to get it to that perfect 12). Though I’m familiar with many Mt. Diablo hikes, this is one I hadn’t done before. We started in the Mitchell Canyon parking lot, on …
Today’s accomplishment: The Lyon Street Stairs 7 times in less than an hour, including a loop around the cul-de-sac at the bottom each time (up from 5 my first attempt at the start of training). Hoping by September to either do more, or get less winded each trip up — either would make me happy. …
Last weekend was a “buddy hike” in the Marin Headlands. For those who have been following the blog for awhile, you’ve heard that phrase before. Basically every weekend we have a team hike (each one getting progressively more difficult and longer) to train for the big hike in September, but interspersed are occasional buddy hikes …
I have just a little more than a month left of training before my “big hike” but I’m still less than halfway to my fundraising goal. If you’ve been meaning to donate, there’s no better time than the present. Donate now! Need more reasons to give besides the tax write-off? How about these: Every ten …
It’s been a very busy couple weeks since I’ve posted about my weekend team hikes. Hard to find time for everything with the hike training, team events, fundraising, work and what little semblance of life I have outside of that (which isn’t much… just getting to laundry has been tough the last two weeks). The …
I know I haven’t been updating as frequently as I should be – this week was rough timewise, starting with a two hike weekend (team hike on Saturday and then an alumni hike on Sunday for those who did a hike a previous season). I’ll get photos up from last weekend’s hikes shortly. But in …
… not being announced yet. I drew the winner of my baked-goods-for-donating challenge, but I don’t want to ruin the surprise that will be showing up in their mailbox in the next week or so. So I’m not going to spoil the fun by mentioning the name just yet, but I will tell you there …
Team in Training has a lot of commitments. Commitment to the cause, first and foremost. Commitment to training. Commitment to my team members. Commitment to fundraising. All of those are commitments I made the day I decided to do another hike for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Tomorrow is when it gets official with my …
