I am humbled...

I sent my first emails out to my friends and family about supporting me for this marathon on March 17th of this year. I sent that out one day after the 13 year anniversary that my dad passed away. My initial goal to raise for the American Heart Association was $1500. Now here I am a little over 4 months later, and we have not only reached this goal, but exceeded it! I absolutely cannot believe the kindness and generosity my friends and family has displayed, and I wanted a chance to thank all of you who have supported me with these donations. What is crazy is that I know that there are still other donations coming in. I still have over 2 months to collect donations. If you are one of those who still want to donate, please visit my donation site: http://www.runningforjerry.org

Thank you all so much!

• Aiden Vigan
• Annie Pardilla
• Arthur Cacayuran
• Berdee Atanante
• Bert & Rose Aguinaldo
• Brian Schuch
• Chi Li
• Concepcion Jasmin
• Diane Zimmerman
• Eileen Luciano
• Freddy Oldenburg
• Haley Vigan
• Heather Kelley
• James Luciano
• Jason and Siou Pugsley
• Jaymie Miguel
• Jean Gavina
• Jeffery Heath
• Ken Litchfield
• Kristina Marinas
• Lourdes Rabara
• Maria Austria
• Maria Victoria (Baba)Jasmin
• Maria& Ferdinand Gueco
• Michael Potter
• Michele Yanong
• Remedios Jao
• Rick Manis
• RIKKI MISTRY
• Robert Mills
• Roberta Fuery
• Rodger Decilio
• Rodolfo Jao
• Rowena Cera
• Salavador Gueco
• Samuel Paschka
• Sharon Del Pilar-Feldman
• Steve Manio

VLOG - Marathon Training Week 6

Hey Tubby

Day 4 of my Marathon Training - VLOG

Day 1 of my marathon training - VLOG style

So I decided to give video blogging a try.  I'll get the hang of it sooner or later, and try to not look around so much while talking.

Recovering quicker than expected...

I started writing a blog post this morning about how incredibly sore I was from yesterday's 10 mile run. Both of my calves were pretty much cramping up all day and night yesterday, even after a 30 minute post-run stretch session and a very long cold shower. I was going to write about how I realized how much harder this has all just become. How I am finally realizing what I am getting into. How I now see why this marathon idea is just crazy. Then, something wild happened. I went on along with my usual Sunday. Jaz and I went to church, bought groceries, took a nap, hung out with my Mike, Tracy, Haley (my goddaughter), and Aiden, visited my nieces at my mom's house, then ate dinner at Entourage with Jaz. I thought for sure I would be hurting throughout the day, and maybe even into tomorrow. But oddly enough, I was pretty ok. There were still lingering effects from yesterday's run, but for the most part, I was pretty well recovered. One good night sleep (which may not happen tonight as I am looking at 12:02AM on my system clock) and I should be good to workout the next day.

Now that I have my legs under me again today I think my physical damage has been repaired, but now onto the psychological damage to fix. Ten miles was the longest I have ever run, and obviously will not be the longest I'd ever run. In the next couple months I'll be going much further, and once the CARA team training starts in June, I'll end up getting up to 20 miles. So, at some point I'll be running twice the distance I ran yesterday. Oh dear! I am starting to realize the magnitude of this race, and I am starting to get scared. As I mentioned in my Daily Mile post about my 10 mile run, I have friended many good running resources on Twitter and Daily Mile who I am so grateful for. These people are my motivation because I know at some point in their running career, they were at this same point in their training and may have had similar doubts and worries. And now they are running 10-15 miles with no issue. Why can't that be me? I know that it can't happen now, but it can happen over time if I stick to it. I will continue to use them as my inspiration...here are a couple of the people who inspire my running:

Chanthana - Twitter/DailyMile

Sergio - Twitter/DailyMile

Mark - Twitter

Freddy - Twitter/DailyMile

Jordan - Twitter/DailyMile

Brian - DailyMile

Time to rest up...and get ready for another week of training! Oh yeah...and one more source of motivation: