St. Jude Marathon
No more marathons! Those were the words I heard my doctor yell out as I groggily woke up from my 2nd surgery last year to repair a torn meniscus in my left knee. Did I hear him right? Yep, my wife said, you are done!
Done? How? What? No! Not done yet, not when there is a marathon where I can help raise money for St. Jude Hospital in Memphis. It’s a research hospital that treats child hood cancers. It takes 1.7 million dollars a day to run the hospital so why not raise money by running. With that said, I have entered the St. Jude Marathon in Memphis, Tennessee. The race is in December, so I thought I would blog about the training and about St. Jude.
This is week one of the training and the first week is always an easy one. I have done a couple of three miles run with a longer run Saturday scheduled for 6 miles. The weather was hot earlier this week so even three miles was a bit taxing in 100° heat. My goal through this training will be to remain injury free. To do that, I’ll have to remember to cross train (I swim 2 or 3 days a week) I also need to lose about 15 pounds to lessen the pounding on my lower body.
So what I’m asking is that you check back with my blog and see how my training is doing. You don’t have to start running to help St. Jude, you can let me do that for you. If you want to donate to my fundraising effort, just go to this website: heroes.stjude.org/BrettAnthony.
This week I will leave you with this fact, Did you know that the St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend raises money exclusively through runners who choose to fundraise as St. Jude Heroes? Because of your donations, St. Jude can ensure that no family ever pays St. Jude for anything.
Well, I’ve got run.