It's 6:45am. In a little over an hour, I'll start my biggest run to date, 18 miles. I'm nervous. I saw the doctor yesterday, and he thinks I'm doing all of the right things for my knee and will be fine. My pain when he was checking my range of motion was minimal. The knee brace I got has really helped. I'm going to see a sports doc on Tuesday, so no matter what happens today, I'll have some medical support early next week.
Because I was feeling a little scared, I decided to go to my webpage and reread all of the amazing things people posted on my page when they made donations. All this week, I have been feeling badly that I might be letting all of these people down if I can't do the race. This morning I realized that this is not the case at all. I remembered the reason I'm doing this. It's not to win, it's to finish. It's to put a mark on the fight against blood cancers. I was so inspired by the words of my family and friends, and I remembered that we have already accomplished an even bigger goal--raising almost $4,300 for research! I'm going to go kick some you-know-what this morning for all of you!
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You are awesome! Congratulations on the great run (since I know you'll have had one by the time you read this).
--Alison
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