Good News, Bad News

Well, here we are... one month from the big day! It's all a little surreal, and daunting, and frankly... ahhhhh! (Downright scary)! But we are running a lot, learning a lot, and even blogging a lot (well, kinda...a lot for us, at least). So things are starting to become routine, which is good thing... but it's still nice to spice it up every once in a while. For this update, we shall play a little round of Good News, Bad News!

Good News: We just passed the 50% mark in our fundraising for Special Olympics Chicago... THANK YOU!

Bad News: Our hands and arms are the only body parts still up for sale... you could miss out if you don't buy them soon!

Good News: On Wednesday, I (Becky) drove from the north side to downtown and thought, "Wow, I am able to run this far and could run back, too!"

Bad News: I found it out the hard way on the Monday prior, when we ran 18 miles from Foster Beach to Soldier Field and back... ouch!

Good News: As of 10 am Monday morning, our calorie count for the day was at -4500, so we got to eat whatever we wanted all day!

Bad News: We mostly wanted to lie around and die all day, and we're pretty sure we never even made up for most of those lost calories this week.

Good News: AthletiCo offers free 15-minute sports injury screenings and just moved to the neighborhood.

Bad News: I (Becky) and my flat feet had to drag ourselves over for a friendly visit after that 18-mile run this week!

Good News: This week's "long" training run is short -- only 10 miles!

Bad News: We are crazy and might run the Chicago Half Marathon on Sunday instead, which is 13.1 miles...

Good News: Fleet Feet Chicago has been incredibly helpful in supplying all of our training needs.

Bad News: Fleet Feet has been sucking us dry of money and recommended specialty "fat girl" spandex to us for race day!

Good News: Many of our training runs typically end at the beach now, so we get to go swimming!

Bad News: Lake Michigan and the Lakefront Trail hold absolutely no novelty anymore, and typically induce all sorts of yelling and cursing.

Ahhh... the list could continue endlessly, but the point is that we are taking the roller coaster of ups and downs in stride, and actually really enjoying some of it in spite of the fact that we are up to running for about 4 straight hours now on our long training runs! Thank you all for your support, we couldn't do it without you!