I thought I'd drop by to update everyone on my marathon progress.
It's cold and snowy here in Kansas right now, making those outside runs pretty difficult. I've gotten out there quite a few times and braved the cold, but I've also tried my luck at the treadmill for a couple of my runs. I'll tell ya, 8 miles on a treadmill without any entertainment is dull indeed. I stared at a wall for over an hour and tried not to cry. Haha, that sounds pretty intense.
Other than that, the roads are finally clearing up and I'm headed out for an 8 mile long run to kick off the new year tomorrow (that's to make up for my laziness and lack of running today!). I mapped out a couple Kansas runs on MapMyRun.com...a really awesome site! Here's my profile link if anyone is interested:
http://www.mapmyrun.com/user_profile?u=184125235527711276
So training is going pretty well, I'd say. I've dropped down a pants size (woot!) and can actually fit into size 4s (><). I just need to stay warm and motivated!
Financially, things are not quite as hot. I made my $500 deadline on December 15th, but I haven't made anything else since then. All I asked for for Christmas was donations, but no one seemed to like that idea I guess! Toward the end of January I'll start the campaign in full gear--until then it's MCAT studying for the big test on January 30th with a few personal letters to family and friends. I figure the months of February, March, and April can be used for those hard core solicitations of businesses and college acquaintances haha.
Well, Happy New Year!
-Elaina
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Two Mile Stones!
I've reached a new level in my training (or rather, pre-training, since I don't really officially start the scheduled training until December 14th). I have been working my way up the milage, wanting to be comfortable with 7 or 8 miles come mid December. Once a week for the last four weeks I've ran a 6 miler. Every time I finished I would be exhausted, with knee pain, and a lot of upper leg muscle soreness.
This week, however, I reached a...mile stone as it were. I had the brilliant idea that instead of trying to run 6 miles once a week, maybe I should do it more often than that. So I ran 6 miles in 1:02:23 on Sunday. Then I ran a quality 3 miles in 0:28:00 on Tuesday. Then, while still sore I decided to run another 6 miles yesterday (Thursday). In the past I would wait until I felt normal again. I think this meant that I never really improved my muscle strength! So instead of waiting for the soreness to go away, I got out there on Thursday and with my running partner extraordinaire, Kristen, we ran 6 miles in 0:59:25! I think we felt pretty hardcore about it!
So training is going well. I would say that I am definitely comfortable at 6 miles at this point as I am feeling fine today, no muscle or knee pain at all. Yay!
The fundraising is going well, too! I'm starting to get a little nervous as our first $500 deadline is Decmeber 15th, but I thinking that people are starting to get a little more interested since it's becoming something people bring up with me in conversation. I have $85 on the website now, and a check from my grandmother for $20 in my room, so I've offically broken the $100 barrier! Another mile stone! Yay!
Just $400 to go in the next month and then after the hollidays, the major fundraising starts. $4000!!! Here we come!!
~Elaina
This week, however, I reached a...mile stone as it were. I had the brilliant idea that instead of trying to run 6 miles once a week, maybe I should do it more often than that. So I ran 6 miles in 1:02:23 on Sunday. Then I ran a quality 3 miles in 0:28:00 on Tuesday. Then, while still sore I decided to run another 6 miles yesterday (Thursday). In the past I would wait until I felt normal again. I think this meant that I never really improved my muscle strength! So instead of waiting for the soreness to go away, I got out there on Thursday and with my running partner extraordinaire, Kristen, we ran 6 miles in 0:59:25! I think we felt pretty hardcore about it!
So training is going well. I would say that I am definitely comfortable at 6 miles at this point as I am feeling fine today, no muscle or knee pain at all. Yay!
The fundraising is going well, too! I'm starting to get a little nervous as our first $500 deadline is Decmeber 15th, but I thinking that people are starting to get a little more interested since it's becoming something people bring up with me in conversation. I have $85 on the website now, and a check from my grandmother for $20 in my room, so I've offically broken the $100 barrier! Another mile stone! Yay!
Just $400 to go in the next month and then after the hollidays, the major fundraising starts. $4000!!! Here we come!!
~Elaina
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Well It's Official!
Support Elaina's Boston Marathon Run!
I have created a facebook group dedicated to supporting my run with the Miles for Miracles Team Boston!
I also received a giant package in the mail from the Team full of fundraising tips, envelopes for checks, and all sorts of colorful thank you cards and flier stuff. It was awesome! I can't wait to get the information for my patient partner!
Since November has arrived, the pre-training training has begun. I ran my first long run on Tuesday--6 miles in one hour and three minutes. I am definitely not a fast runner haha.
The first exciting event happened on a run--I saw a snake! We were running along and suddenly what I thought was a stick started to wiggle! I'm pretty sure I shrieked/jumped/ran a bit faster for a couple minutes (maybe I'll use snakes to encourage better pacing!)
So check out the facebook site and keep checking this blog for updates. I'll be working on personalized letters and emails in the next couple weeks.
Please support me in my run and donate to my fundraising efforts!
Elaina
I have created a facebook group dedicated to supporting my run with the Miles for Miracles Team Boston!
I also received a giant package in the mail from the Team full of fundraising tips, envelopes for checks, and all sorts of colorful thank you cards and flier stuff. It was awesome! I can't wait to get the information for my patient partner!
Since November has arrived, the pre-training training has begun. I ran my first long run on Tuesday--6 miles in one hour and three minutes. I am definitely not a fast runner haha.
The first exciting event happened on a run--I saw a snake! We were running along and suddenly what I thought was a stick started to wiggle! I'm pretty sure I shrieked/jumped/ran a bit faster for a couple minutes (maybe I'll use snakes to encourage better pacing!)
So check out the facebook site and keep checking this blog for updates. I'll be working on personalized letters and emails in the next couple weeks.
Please support me in my run and donate to my fundraising efforts!
Elaina
Friday, October 23, 2009
Facts about Children's Hospital Boston
Based in Boston. Serving the World
Since 1996, Miles for Miracles Team Boston has raised more than $11.8 million to support the areas of greatest need at Children’s Hospital Boston. Here at Children’s, life-changing care and worldchanging research come together to fuel breakthroughs that improve the lives of children and adults everywhere.
The following are examples of the impact Children’s has had, and continues to have, on Boston and around the world.
Life-Changing Care
Named among the top two children’s hospitals nationwide for 20 years, Children’s breadth and depth, and its ability to solve medical problems no other hospital will attempt draws patients from around the globe.
-World-leading programs in cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, orthopedic surgery, cancer,
advanced fetal care and neonatal care.
-Delivered life-saving care to more than 3,000 patients from beyond Massachusetts in 2007, including hundreds from abroad; Interpreter Services aided patient families 80,000 times, translating into 35 languages.
-Achieved Magnet status for nursing excellence—among only 5 percent of hospitals nationwide.
World-Changing Research
The nation’s premier pediatric research facility, Children’s receives more NIH funding than any other pediatric hospital and ranks fifth in NIH funding among all hospitals.
-World-class research team includes 13 Howard Hughes Medical Institute appointees, 7 Institute of Medicine members and 9 members of the National Academy of Sciences.
-Two Children’s scientists have won Nobel Prizes—John Enders, PhD, for culturing the polio virus, and Joseph E. Murray, MD, for the first successful organ transplant.
-Founded the world-changing field of angiogenesis, which holds promise for treating more than 60 diseases; drugs to control angiogenesis are now extending life for cancer patients and reversing blindness for macular degeneration patients.
-World leaders in stem cell research. In 2008 our scientists reprogrammed mature human cells to simulate embryonic stem cells, creating 10 disease-specific cell lines that will shed light on root causes of disease; all Children’s cell lines are available to the international research community.
-Home to top pediatric obesity experts whose groundbreaking studies have directly influenced public health policy.
Training
-Children’s is one of nation’s most competitive pediatric residency program: 1,000 applicants vie for 35 resident positions annually.
-Many of the nation’s division chiefs, department chairs and top academic researchers trained at
Children’s—we are an incubator for the star practitioners of the future.
Since 1996, Miles for Miracles Team Boston has raised more than $11.8 million to support the areas of greatest need at Children’s Hospital Boston. Here at Children’s, life-changing care and worldchanging research come together to fuel breakthroughs that improve the lives of children and adults everywhere.
The following are examples of the impact Children’s has had, and continues to have, on Boston and around the world.
Life-Changing Care
Named among the top two children’s hospitals nationwide for 20 years, Children’s breadth and depth, and its ability to solve medical problems no other hospital will attempt draws patients from around the globe.
-World-leading programs in cardiology, gastroenterology, neurology, orthopedic surgery, cancer,
advanced fetal care and neonatal care.
-Delivered life-saving care to more than 3,000 patients from beyond Massachusetts in 2007, including hundreds from abroad; Interpreter Services aided patient families 80,000 times, translating into 35 languages.
-Achieved Magnet status for nursing excellence—among only 5 percent of hospitals nationwide.
World-Changing Research
The nation’s premier pediatric research facility, Children’s receives more NIH funding than any other pediatric hospital and ranks fifth in NIH funding among all hospitals.
-World-class research team includes 13 Howard Hughes Medical Institute appointees, 7 Institute of Medicine members and 9 members of the National Academy of Sciences.
-Two Children’s scientists have won Nobel Prizes—John Enders, PhD, for culturing the polio virus, and Joseph E. Murray, MD, for the first successful organ transplant.
-Founded the world-changing field of angiogenesis, which holds promise for treating more than 60 diseases; drugs to control angiogenesis are now extending life for cancer patients and reversing blindness for macular degeneration patients.
-World leaders in stem cell research. In 2008 our scientists reprogrammed mature human cells to simulate embryonic stem cells, creating 10 disease-specific cell lines that will shed light on root causes of disease; all Children’s cell lines are available to the international research community.
-Home to top pediatric obesity experts whose groundbreaking studies have directly influenced public health policy.
Training
-Children’s is one of nation’s most competitive pediatric residency program: 1,000 applicants vie for 35 resident positions annually.
-Many of the nation’s division chiefs, department chairs and top academic researchers trained at
Children’s—we are an incubator for the star practitioners of the future.
Welcome!
Hello everyone!
I wanted to get this thing up and running so that anyone who is interested can start to follow my progress!
This upcoming April I am going to be running the Boston Marathon and I will be running with Children's Hospital Boston, a truly amazing hospital for kids and families and also for researchers and physicians. Those of you who know me might be aware of my other blog, HopeMD, a fabulous blog (if I do say so myself) about navigating the pre-med adventure in college and one that chronicles my desire to be a pediatrician down the road. So the Children's Hospital Boston Miles for Miracles Team really is the best possible fit for me to run this historical race!
I envision this blog to serve two major purposes. First and foremost it is to serve as a linking mechanism to my Miles for Miracles homebase website which is where you all can help me fundraise for hospital research. I need to raise $4000 (but $5000 is an even better goal!) and I need as much help from my support base as possible. If all my friends and family chip in, I'll have that goal met and more!
The second purpose of this blog is to update anyone who is interested in my path to becoming a marathon running rock star, of course! I'll begin really hardcore training toward the end of the year (think mid December or so) and that's when the posts here will shift a little from fundraising efforts to let you all know how bad my shin splints are! I plan on posting my training schedule and milage, plus links to relevant running information as well as information about what Children's Hospital Boston has going on (pretty innovative research going on over there!)
So that's that for now! I'll be tinkering around a bit, trying to get up some Miles for Miracles banners and whatnot with some very visible links to my fundraising page, haha.
Let me know if you are interested in helping me raise the goods for a really excellent cause!
Talk to you all soon,
~E
I wanted to get this thing up and running so that anyone who is interested can start to follow my progress!
This upcoming April I am going to be running the Boston Marathon and I will be running with Children's Hospital Boston, a truly amazing hospital for kids and families and also for researchers and physicians. Those of you who know me might be aware of my other blog, HopeMD, a fabulous blog (if I do say so myself) about navigating the pre-med adventure in college and one that chronicles my desire to be a pediatrician down the road. So the Children's Hospital Boston Miles for Miracles Team really is the best possible fit for me to run this historical race!
I envision this blog to serve two major purposes. First and foremost it is to serve as a linking mechanism to my Miles for Miracles homebase website which is where you all can help me fundraise for hospital research. I need to raise $4000 (but $5000 is an even better goal!) and I need as much help from my support base as possible. If all my friends and family chip in, I'll have that goal met and more!
The second purpose of this blog is to update anyone who is interested in my path to becoming a marathon running rock star, of course! I'll begin really hardcore training toward the end of the year (think mid December or so) and that's when the posts here will shift a little from fundraising efforts to let you all know how bad my shin splints are! I plan on posting my training schedule and milage, plus links to relevant running information as well as information about what Children's Hospital Boston has going on (pretty innovative research going on over there!)
So that's that for now! I'll be tinkering around a bit, trying to get up some Miles for Miracles banners and whatnot with some very visible links to my fundraising page, haha.
Let me know if you are interested in helping me raise the goods for a really excellent cause!
Talk to you all soon,
~E
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