Thursdays with Mel

I've made my May goal!!! In the past two weeks, I've received two $50 donations (Thank you Mr. & Mrs. Van Stedum and Bernadette Pelina!!) and one for $30 and some change online (Thanks you to Mandie Pierce and her wonderful talent in selling her intricate handmade scrapbook layouts!). In addition to that, I received two offline donations totaling $165 thanks to Marsha Rauscher and The Atcheson Family. WOW. I truly feel like I'm making progress! My goal was to reach over the half way mark this month, but with the help of my donors- I've surpassed my goal and will sit at the 75% mark. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!

With that being under my belt, I have recently discovered the real reason why the 3-Day is so hard- THE TRAINING! Two weeks ago we started receiving our 24 week personal trainer emails from the 3-Day. The point in this email is to give you a schedule on your walking to improve your endurance for distance.

As I read the first email, it said:
Monday Rest
Tuesday 3 miles Easy walking
Wednesday Rest
Thursday 3 miles Moderate walking
Friday 30 minutes Easy cross-training
Saturday 3 miles Easy walking
Sunday 3 miles Easy walking

I though, wow, this is going to be pretty easy...I've already got about 12 miles under my belt, so I should be pretty good, right? Well, that was until I received this week's trainer email! It pretty much looked the same except they added an extra mile to SATURDAY! Saturday? Why Saturday?? Then I remembered a conversation with several other past 3-Day walkers they told me that their would be weekends at the end of this training where I would be gone ALL DAY!



So with my hesitant body and the courage of Forrest Gump ", I take a deep breath and say, "BRING IT ON!!!"

So, if you're a fellow neighbor of mine and you see me out in the rain walking or in 90 degree weather and I forget to wave out of pure exhaustion- I'm training. I promise it's not to be rude and I'm not that crazy. Instead, just remember that I'm out there doing this for your mothers, friends, aunts, daughters. I am fighting this battle in a physical way that's new to me. I mean, I NEVER seriously thought, I would have to walk this much in my life, but I am trying not to question and replacing those thoughts with the bigger picture.


Until next week- keep up the reading and I'll keep up the walking!
Melissa