23% is a sweet number.

Wow!!! Thank you! Thank you!! Thank you!!!!

My day started off fantastically. I had a nice surprise when I checked my morning email. My manager, Deb Adams made a very generous donation of $150 to the Bottom Line marathon fund! Thanks Deb! She's been super accommodating and supportive already especially relating to my random icing habits and running schedules. And get this, she's even going to let me have the entire day off for the Marathon! I know, I have it waayy too good at the 136 Turnpike.

We made it to the $1000 mark! All day long, I walked around the office with an extra bounce in my step.

At the office for the next two weeks, we're training a group of new hire Endoscopy sales reps. During the introduction portion of training, we all take a few minutes to say our name, home city/state, title, previous work experience and a fun fact. I've always hated the fun fact throughout life, but I've learned over the last year for the New Hire classes that if my fun fact is FUN enough it can really spark some good conversations. I've used "training for a half marathon", "rowing on the Charles River," and now "I'm training for the Boston Marathon!". Another rep in the class shared that he qualified for Boston! Congrats Bert Bair! Our Sales Training director, Tracey Sanford is also a marathon veteran - completing the New York marathon a few years back - under four hours!! With all the marathon excitement in the atmosphere, Tracey mentioned that she thinks the office should close down to cheer on Bert and me during the marathon. I know this isn't quite possible, but it's the cutest suggestion that I've ever heard!

It's Wednesday! I'm free! I don't have any plans. I packed my triple layers for the Bowditch track workout, but sadly it was far too cold to be outside. I attempted to complete a "track" workout on the treadmill. I ran my 5 miles with 5 repeats of 800s. Now that I'm thinking about it, I did not really do 800s because I only sprinted for 3 minutes at a 7:30minute pace. The small skinny boy that started running next to me thought that I was racing him. Awkward. We're stuck on treadmills and there's no finish line so it's hard determine winners. Everytime I started running fast for my three minutes, he ran faster too! Anyway, he might have been twelve and if it was a race, I won and I'm fine with that!




Thank you Martin Finn for suggesting the Nike iPod connection. Thank you Nike. Wow, running on the treadmill was a fun game today!

I dashed home for my big evening of donation box decorating and to catch a few laughs with American Idol. The donation box does not need to be anything fancy, but it's a great opportunity for it. I'm having a blast and it's going to cause you to immediately grab your ATM card to withdraw large amounts of money, or write larger checks for donation purposes. :-0) With any luck, it won't be thrown away while sitting around at the fundraising events.

With plans to blog about the big $1000 mark and the weird gym visit, I opened my laptop and quickly checked around the evite and email. To my delight, I immmediately jumped up, down and around the room, screaming with two more donations made to my marathon fund! Honestly, until this moment, every single previous donation has been a feeling of relief instead of excitement, but 23% is a sweet number! $300 of donations is one day!!

I can't fall asleep! I'm too excited!