Brrrrrrr!

Here we are, training for a marathon! Don’t mind the snow collecting in my hair! Colleen and I just finished running 10 miles in the foothills of Boulder while it was snowing! If you would like to donate some money towards our marathon…proceeds would gladly be accepted! Contact Matt if you wish to submit a donation, as the marathon is expensive, and so is the hotel he has to reserve. I would like to view this as a sponsorship. You could even make a payment for every mile of the marathon Toid makes it through! How cool would that be!? I would even print your name on my website, as an official sponsor of me and the Steamboat Springs Marathon! Or maybe I will write your name on my race t-shirt! The race is June 1st, so you have plenty of time to find $5.

If you don’t want to donate…that’s fine. I understand. But while you’re at the drive-thru at Wendy’s, getting a Super-size on your value meal, think about how I had a severe calf cramp from two miles on; encountered gale force winds of sixty miles per hour in whichever direction the run was heading; struggled through hail, snow, thunderstorms and locusts at various times during the race; had a body temperature of 103 degrees and had just gotten over walking pneumonia; my feet were bleeding from blisters halfway through the race; there were no aid stations as the volunteers didn’t show; I couldn’t see my split times because sweat was pouring down into my eyes; I had Montezuma’s Revenge requiring twenty two bathroom breaks and the run was dramatically uphill at all times. Yet, despite all these obstacles, I persevered in the face of seemingly insurmountable adversity and set my PR by 6 minutes. And if you can honestly tell me your five dollars is better spent on getting some extra grease on your fries, I have nothing more to say. Hehe.