My back recently started to hurt last week. As much as I want to believe that this marathon is going to happen, I am starting to have my doubts.
I want to confirm to everyone who has already donated money that these funds are starting to get exclusively trasnferred to the Albuquerque Friends of the Library. Even if you donated money, all the donations will still go to the Albuquerque Public Library.
While I will be in recovery for the next few weeks, please have your thoughts and prayers with me as I try to finish this goal. It would be wonderful to be able to accomplish this. Thank you for all the support from those who visit this website.
Truly,
Amy
Monday, July 16, 2012
Sunday, May 6, 2012
166 days until Marathon!!
Today Paul and I are going to the run for the zoo!!!! We are so excited to see all the funds coming through for the Albuquerque Public Library and it's also good that we have sent a letter to them formally announcing our fundraising events. We hope that we can reach the $5,000 goal for the director's "wish list".
Every single cent that you donate will go directly to the public libraries. I will be paying for my own marathon registration fee and anything else I may need to complete the run. I want you, the donor, to know that every cent you donate goes to a good cause, something that is hard to come by in this day and time.
Thank you for all of your support!
Amy
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Marathon Training and Fundraising Begins!!!!
Alright people, now that I have spent the last two years of my life egotistically posting little updates about my running goals, I sincerely believe it's time for me to give back to my community. That's why, for the rest of my marathon training (I just started), I am going to try and save up $5,000 for the Albuquerque Public Libraries. There is currently a letter in route to the director of the libraries so that they will become aware of my efforts, and I hope that you all become interested and donate some money.
One reason that I chose the Albuquerque Public Library for my efforts is because I am the type of person that can get lost in information, and love it. I am the type of person who takes refuge in a good book, story, or idea. I truly believe that everything in the world starts with good ideas, and that people can be inspired on any whim. The wonderful thing about public libraries is that anyone, anywhere within city limits can enter this institution and find something that is interesting to them.
$5,000 is the goal because it would enable the Albuquerque Public Libraries to get something off of their "wish list" during these hard economic times. As a librarian, I understand that there are a myriad amount of things that could help promote people in the Albuquerque area through literacy.
New Mexico, in general, has some of the lowest literacy rates in the country. By contributing today you are making a huge difference for a state that needs some more funding put into their public libraries.
Thank you for attention in this matter, and I hope that you keep watching to see me try and finish my first ever marathon!!!!
Monday, February 27, 2012
Adrie and Steph do Halfy, Amy still training
My sister and her friend Steph also finished the DisneyWorld Half-Marathon! Congrats ladies--- you look great!!!
I wish I could have been there!!!!!
Great job Steph and Adrie!!!!!!
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Looking Up
I am very excited to say that my marathon running club will start this saturday! Yay!!!!!! I am happy to finally have other people to run with. The long stretches out there on the road by myself can get a little hefty and lonely, especially when I am not feeling it! I get the feeling that by joining this running club and having a group of people who I can mingle and talk to, I should for sure reach my goals in October of running the full marathon.
I have finally reached a point in my training where I don't think that it's possible for me to go on without more support from others. I need people to be with me through this journey. I want to be proud of other people who are finishing and try to take in all sorts of new other people.
Am I scared? A little. But working with a team I truly feel like I am going to reach my goals this year. I have to. I don't know how to explain it other than that. I need to start doing things that are good for me, and make sure that I have something to do to take care of myself. Running has always been that spirit-lifting feeling where it feels like I can do anything!
In October, I want to do the Duke City Marathon. I watched the Marathoners start this year, it was pretty exciting, they all lined up and when the gun went off they were off. I want to have that feeling with friends, I have decided. I want to share my love of running a marathon with many other people. I think that it would just be an overwhelming and wonderful feeling.
I'll update ya'll about how it goes. Maybe some of them will even let me video-record their journeys. :) That's something that I think would be a cool contribution to this blog. I think that the more women who write regularly on this blog, the cooler it could get.
Maybe if I make enough friends, I can assign them all to one day a week. If I could only find two other women to write blog posts and video blog their journeys, that would be awesome. Alrighty! Talk to you all later. I'll update you all on how the marathon running will go.
I have finally reached a point in my training where I don't think that it's possible for me to go on without more support from others. I need people to be with me through this journey. I want to be proud of other people who are finishing and try to take in all sorts of new other people.
Am I scared? A little. But working with a team I truly feel like I am going to reach my goals this year. I have to. I don't know how to explain it other than that. I need to start doing things that are good for me, and make sure that I have something to do to take care of myself. Running has always been that spirit-lifting feeling where it feels like I can do anything!
In October, I want to do the Duke City Marathon. I watched the Marathoners start this year, it was pretty exciting, they all lined up and when the gun went off they were off. I want to have that feeling with friends, I have decided. I want to share my love of running a marathon with many other people. I think that it would just be an overwhelming and wonderful feeling.
I'll update ya'll about how it goes. Maybe some of them will even let me video-record their journeys. :) That's something that I think would be a cool contribution to this blog. I think that the more women who write regularly on this blog, the cooler it could get.
Maybe if I make enough friends, I can assign them all to one day a week. If I could only find two other women to write blog posts and video blog their journeys, that would be awesome. Alrighty! Talk to you all later. I'll update you all on how the marathon running will go.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Running Club next Saturday
Okay, I hate to sound like a dork, but I am joining a running club on Saturday officially!!!!! I am excited about this because I have never been part of a running club, and I am excited to finally be included with other people who are training. I have done it so much by myself, that I feel like I will be less intimidated now that I have all sorts of other people to train with. I can't wait to get so used to it that I start making running friends!!! I am excited about that. I don't have enough running friends. :-(
On another note, the true-blue project of finishing a marathon is truly starting to sink in for me. I have to review some training weeks to see if it's possible to go from a 13 mile run from May to a 26 mile run in October. I don't see why not----that's about 5-6 months in between, so at least 25 weeks, which if you amp up your mileage every week, could become truly possible.
I guess the first step from me is joining this marathon training club. It's a scary thought, and one that has always been in the back of my brain, but it's time to get on board with it----yeeeeehawwwwww!!! 2012 will be a very interesting year filled with all sorts of adversity and challenge. I finish my Master's degree in August. My husband finishes his in the Fall. We have all sorts of things going on, and I feel like the best way for me to focus my attention is to try and run a marathon. It would be the penultimate to the last five years of my life.
I started this blog after I finished watching the movie "Spirit of the Marathon". I was so interested to see how people had transformed their whole being just by running a marathon. I don't run a marathon so much to look fit and sexy, I mean, this is a perk, but not the most realistic perk. For me, it is about the challenge. And on another level, now that I will be meeting more people just like me, I think it's about making new friends who have this similar desire.
The fun thing about going to this running group is that I am going to be drawing people into my life that I have been trying to attract for some while. I am very into "The Secret" bu Rhonda Byrne, and I think that this is the secret working on some level. I am bringing more people and energy and love into my life!!!!
At the end of my finish line in October, I don't just see me finishing a physical accomplishment, I also see me reaching my career goals, health goals, life goals. I see all the friends that I have made along the way. In some ways, for me, finishing this marathon in October will be more like going through a rite-of-passage.
Things happen in life that will make it hard to be selfish sometimes. I know that the time commitment asosciated with running can seem like a selfish thing, but I gots to do it!!!! Very excited about life and lvoe. I am happy that I have such a sweet, caring and understanding husband. It would be hard to be me if I didn't have someone like him always supporting me.
Here are my life values:
-Harmony
-Perservance
-Personal Growth
-Fun
May all of you experience these feelings today too.
On another note, the true-blue project of finishing a marathon is truly starting to sink in for me. I have to review some training weeks to see if it's possible to go from a 13 mile run from May to a 26 mile run in October. I don't see why not----that's about 5-6 months in between, so at least 25 weeks, which if you amp up your mileage every week, could become truly possible.
I guess the first step from me is joining this marathon training club. It's a scary thought, and one that has always been in the back of my brain, but it's time to get on board with it----yeeeeehawwwwww!!! 2012 will be a very interesting year filled with all sorts of adversity and challenge. I finish my Master's degree in August. My husband finishes his in the Fall. We have all sorts of things going on, and I feel like the best way for me to focus my attention is to try and run a marathon. It would be the penultimate to the last five years of my life.
I started this blog after I finished watching the movie "Spirit of the Marathon". I was so interested to see how people had transformed their whole being just by running a marathon. I don't run a marathon so much to look fit and sexy, I mean, this is a perk, but not the most realistic perk. For me, it is about the challenge. And on another level, now that I will be meeting more people just like me, I think it's about making new friends who have this similar desire.
The fun thing about going to this running group is that I am going to be drawing people into my life that I have been trying to attract for some while. I am very into "The Secret" bu Rhonda Byrne, and I think that this is the secret working on some level. I am bringing more people and energy and love into my life!!!!
At the end of my finish line in October, I don't just see me finishing a physical accomplishment, I also see me reaching my career goals, health goals, life goals. I see all the friends that I have made along the way. In some ways, for me, finishing this marathon in October will be more like going through a rite-of-passage.
Things happen in life that will make it hard to be selfish sometimes. I know that the time commitment asosciated with running can seem like a selfish thing, but I gots to do it!!!! Very excited about life and lvoe. I am happy that I have such a sweet, caring and understanding husband. It would be hard to be me if I didn't have someone like him always supporting me.
Here are my life values:
-Harmony
-Perservance
-Personal Growth
-Fun
May all of you experience these feelings today too.
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