I've started my email campaign! So far I've emailed all my Wellesley professors over the last four years, my FYM group, a few friends, and have sent spam to Community and a couple class conferences. I've also asked my work supervisor (who ROCKS) to forward my message to the entire department. I've gotten almost $100 in the last two days...I need that to continue and get even better! I'm seriously going to have a party when I reach $1000. Hopefully that will happen in the next couple weeks.
GOALS:
February 20--> $1000
March 1st-->$2000
April 1st--> $3000
April 19th-->$4000 +
Yes, I admit that I am mildly freaked about the amount of money I still need to raise. What is very frustrating is that if every student here donated $5, I'd have $10,000!!
I am planning on going to Rosie's, a local bakery and asking them to hold a fundraising day where I'll get a certain percentage of the profits. Hopefully that will be beneficial! I'm going to ask next week for a day sometime in early March. I'll widely publicize that event (with proper spam and everything!) and hopefully they'll get a lot of extra business.
I'm also going to make some posters this weekend and put a few up in the campus center. Maybe I can elicit some help from a friend who used me for something similar last year haha.
If anyone has any marathon fundraising ideas that don't require much input, let me know!!
As far as training goes, I'm definitely a bit behind, but catching up quickly. The MCAT had me skipping a couple long runs, but I just ran 12 miles yesterday and this Saturday is 14!!
Tomorrow I'm doing some cross training to let my knees recover from the long run and then it's 6 miles on Wednesday come rain or shine (or blizzard!). Wish me luck!
-Elaina
Showing posts with label training. Show all posts
Showing posts with label training. Show all posts
Monday, February 8, 2010
Thursday, December 31, 2009
A New Year!
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
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
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
Friday, October 23, 2009
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
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
