I am now officially nervous about what I have undertaken! It is Tuesday, August 5th and this is the last real week of workouts I have before the run itself. As much as I have prepared, I have a fear that I have not prepared nearly as much as I need to for this run and I won't really understand that fully until next Saturday. I have a speed workout today and then tomorrow is a fun workout when I arrive in Colorado Springs... I am running the "Incline." If you never heard of it, check out this link: http://www.stevegarufi.com/manitouincline.htm it is a 1 mile set of stairs up the side of Mt Manitou and it gains 2,000 feet of altitude in that 1 mile. Olympians from the Olympic Training center in Colorado Springs frequent it and it is supposedly one of the most brutal workouts you can imagine so it'll be a fun hill workout in the last week before my taper :-)
At this time I have raised over $3,200 which is well more than I had originally set as my goal so I want to thank every one of you who has contributed to my journey! For those who are still hoping to contribute, I will be happy to accept contributions through the end of August but I have officially sent my shirt off to the printer so I cannot add any more memorials to it. You can send a check or use PayPal from my web site... the address for checks can be found on my web site as well.
Today has been crazy! I have been running around while finishing all of my work (I do have to make a living still) and doing con calls while driving and walking through EMS. I spent hours last night creating the iron-ons for my final shirt and trimming them so that my shirt still was able to breathe properly and then this morning while ironing them on before work found out that a defective iron on was in the mix and it ruined my shirt! My saintly wife Jan ran out today and bought more iron-ons, and a trimming knife since I was out of both and I'll have to redo one last emergency shirt tonight before we leave for the airport.
You may be asking yourself... "If Scott just sent his shirts to the professional printer, why is he making another one by hand?" That is an excellent question! The answer is, because of Mr Murphy! He always has a way of messing up my plans and if I didn't make one by hand then either the printer would have a major issue that could not be resolved while I am away, or FedEx would lose the shirts after the printer ships them to my hotel in CO or the hotel refuses the shipment or the hotel loses them or FedEx ruins the package... you get the picture. I am hand carrying my emergency shirt with me! The printer is printing a sleeveless and a long sleeve for me and shirts for all of my crew (A.K.A. family) too.
I will be adding blog entries while I am in CO but it will be whenever I have internet access. I will also be adding pictures to my web site when I can. Hopefully we'll get some great pictures while hiking up Pike's Peak this Thu and Fri and camping on its upper slopes.
God bless you all for supporting my journey and taking interest in an old man's crazy adventure! I will write as often as I can so stay tuned for more news!
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