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2008-04-03
I will get around to that AFTER I have been released from my current hormonally-induced bout of profound apathy, frustration, and cynicism.
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As some of you know, I'm doing a fundraiser walk for cancer research this September. So on top of everything else I'm doing, starting the end of this month, I train for this.
4 times a week, according to my trainer. Between 6.5Km and 35.5km per walk.
I think about my current level of fitness (bahahaaha) and part of me goes "are you mental?"
But I'm working with a trainer - someone motivated & educated to help me. I've got clearance from my MD for this. I've put my chiro on notice about this (need to do that with the RMT). Still need to pick up the gear (walking shoes vs. casual shoes - difference in my feet will be huge).
Some of the big walk days happen at inconvenient times - I'll make them work.
So - I guess the long shot of this is "get ready to hear me ramble on (behind cuts, I promise) about my walk training."
(This is part of that "go big or go home" philosophy that is going to bite me in the ass one of these days, I'm sure of it....Rule 8, here I come.)
4 times a week, according to my trainer. Between 6.5Km and 35.5km per walk.
I think about my current level of fitness (bahahaaha) and part of me goes "are you mental?"
But I'm working with a trainer - someone motivated & educated to help me. I've got clearance from my MD for this. I've put my chiro on notice about this (need to do that with the RMT). Still need to pick up the gear (walking shoes vs. casual shoes - difference in my feet will be huge).
Some of the big walk days happen at inconvenient times - I'll make them work.
So - I guess the long shot of this is "get ready to hear me ramble on (behind cuts, I promise) about my walk training."
(This is part of that "go big or go home" philosophy that is going to bite me in the ass one of these days, I'm sure of it....Rule 8, here I come.)
I am not giving up another one, if I can help it
In the last several years, I have lost a lot of relatives. My aunt, my mom's sister, passed away after an 8 year fight with cancer. My grandmother also died of cancer. My great-grandmother died of cancer. I remember feeling powerless to do anything to help them - to alleviate the pain from the disease and the treatments. To know what to say to someone who knows they are going to die. I have friends now who are struggling with cancer. My sister, mother and myself all know that it is a strong possibility in our futures.
The Weekend to End Breast Cancer is a two-day, 60-kilometre walk through the neighbourhoods of Toronto. Proceeds benefit Princess Margaret Hospital, funding important breast cancer research, education, services and care. I am participating this coming fall. I have made a promise to myself that I am going to try to do something. To avoid that powerlessness again, if even by flinging my passion for life into the teeth of a disease that takes so much. The only way I know how - body, mind & soul.
If you're inclined to help me by sponsoring me, you can get a copy of the donation form here, or you can go here to donate online.
Thanks.
In the last several years, I have lost a lot of relatives. My aunt, my mom's sister, passed away after an 8 year fight with cancer. My grandmother also died of cancer. My great-grandmother died of cancer. I remember feeling powerless to do anything to help them - to alleviate the pain from the disease and the treatments. To know what to say to someone who knows they are going to die. I have friends now who are struggling with cancer. My sister, mother and myself all know that it is a strong possibility in our futures.
The Weekend to End Breast Cancer is a two-day, 60-kilometre walk through the neighbourhoods of Toronto. Proceeds benefit Princess Margaret Hospital, funding important breast cancer research, education, services and care. I am participating this coming fall. I have made a promise to myself that I am going to try to do something. To avoid that powerlessness again, if even by flinging my passion for life into the teeth of a disease that takes so much. The only way I know how - body, mind & soul.
If you're inclined to help me by sponsoring me, you can get a copy of the donation form here, or you can go here to donate online.
Thanks.
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