The Shoes That Will Get Me To Ireland

Here's the latest plans --

We're going to Dublin. And we're going to run in a Marathon. The Adidas Dublin Marathon on October 30th.

We were going to work with Team in Training, a fundraising orginization for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society. But there were only a few small problems with that idea. Mainly we had to figure out how to raise $5800. Each. And that means selling a heck of a lot of Krispy Kremes. Also, we don't actually know anyone with those diseases so there would not be a whole lot of personal motivation to earn the money. So we decided to just save our own money and go. Because flights are about $900 and the entry for the race is only 70 Euros. So we are saving our money and zealously following our five-month training guides.

Today is a 30 minute run.

We're not sure what else we should see while we're in Dublin, but we need suggestions. Becuase of the time change, we have to fly in about three days before the race and airline ticktets are cheaper if we fly out a few days after, so we are stuck. We have to stay in Dublin. ;-)

It may seem crazy to start with a marathon, but it's not totally starting from scratch, we have run several 5k races. And lots of old ladies run marathons, we've seen pictures! It must be possible. And October is a long way off, I'm sure we'll be in training by then.

Ask me if I ran today!