hi all. so far, thanks to your generous donations, we have raised $2025! only $475 to go to reach the goal of $2500!! i am so grateful for all of the support i have received from all of you. i'm going to be "ramping up" my training starting july, so i'll hopefully have more to report. there is a training walk this saturday, i'm hoping i can increase my speed and shorten the time it takes me to walk a mile. as it is right now, i won't be able to do the full marathon unless i can do that. there is a time limit for the course and i have to be able to finish it in 6 hours or less. right now, my walk time is about 7 hours and 45 minutes for 26.2 miles, so i'll have to shorten that by a lot or i'll be walking the half marathon instead.

i'm a little bit disappointed about that, but i have plenty of time to train, increase my speed and decrease my time. we shall see.

again, thank you all for your donations! keep 'em coming!!!