Run the Marathon!

Copy and paste the following link and run the 2009 New York City Marathon in 7 minutes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnxknAnBVk0

One Week To Go

One week from today we will run the 40th ING NYC Marathon. Check out the track below:

Donation Deadline is Friday, October 16, 2009

Whoa, only 19 more days until Terry and I run the NYC Marathon.

Each of us pledged to raise $2500. While Terry has surpassed his pledge, I am just $370 short.

Please donate any amount you can. It is for a wonderful charity based in NYC but effective the world over.

Team for Kids teaches kids fitness and well being through running based fitness programs.

These programs are helping to battle childhood obesity and Diabetes.

I am proud to be associated with such a wonderful organization and will be thrilled to say I met my pledge.

Thank you so much in advance for your donation to Team for Kids on my behalf!

Wendy

23 Miler!

Wow! I can't believe we have made it this far!

This was our longest training run and will be the farthest we go until marathon day!

We strategized this run even better than our 20 to try to head off any bonkiness at the pass.

We ran two 11.5 mile loops. We parked one car at the start and one car at mile 15.5.

This is us at 15.5 taking a 30 second banana break.

Here I am after the run putting on my compression sleeves. These things are awesome and I highly recommend them to my dancer friends. They get the blood to the calves and shins and they feel so good. They make full leg ones too!

Here's Terry stretching in his sleeves after. Despite the new pain I'm feeling and Terry's injury, I think this was our best long run. We really did feel good and had tons of energy and it was a great confidence booster. We have been running slightly slower than we were pre injury and I like it because we don't get bonky at all.

It was the day before my birthday so that night we celebrated at a nice restaurant in Saratoga called the Plumed Horse. We had champagne and the tasting menu, wine and dessert. We deserved the splurge.

Here are some videos from our run! Enjoy!