Only You Can Help

Day 2 dawned warm and muggy. Argh! Time was slower, but I ran a little farther, so who knows. Yes, I do have a spreadsheet tracking my miles, pace, goal miles, etc. Yes, there are formulas. Yes, I am updating it daily. Yes, I am a total geek.

I had a little trouble getting through today's chug, but I kept my mantra in my head:

"Run, bitch, run like yer ass is on fire!"

No wait, not that mantra.

"8 and 1 till the job is done."

8, 16, and 24 are my new favorite numbers. I guess it should be 8, 17, and 26, but I just thought of that so we'll see if I change it to "8 and 1, with continued iterations of 7 and 1 until the job is done!" Doesn't really flow, does it?

But listen, I need your help on something. Something really important. I need you to donate to the Author Thinks Running Shit Is Expensive Fund. Seriously. There are runners out there, good runners, well, some are just joggers, but they want to be runners, and they have dreams! Every day they strive for their goals with no monetary help from anyone! Can you imagine? Those poor, poor runners/joggers, out running/jogging five days a week, sweating, panting, oh gawd it's just too much to even think about sometimes!

And running gear is expensive! You try to find a Clif bar for less that a cool buck. You won't be able to. Sports bras cost in the neighborhood of TWENTY dollars! I mean really? Do boobs really need that level of care to keep from bruising their owner? Yes, they do. Headbands cost several dollars, but without them, people have sweat running/jogging down their faces! The humanity! We won't even discuss mechanisms for distracting runners/joggers from their pain with the healing power of music, but that music and its mechanism is expensive! They make slick sport socks with ALOE! Would you deprive a poor runner/jogger his/her ALOE socks??!!

Won't you help? Today? You can make a huge difference in a runner/jogger's life. Think of the power you have.

Thank you.