- We continue to update www.wewillfindacure.com. For now we updated the video to my Facebook Live video where I shared the news of being nominated for Kona. We have a lot of ideas to incorporate. I am going to move the blogging to that site. I want to add a page for all of your stories. The Road to Kona is about all of us and I want to be able to publish your stories and why it is you want to end cancer. I want to know how cancer touched your life.
- We received $1,100 in donations but one of those donations has a nice match so we really raised $3,100. I have not really pushed the fundraising too hard as we get everything in order but, as I said above, donations are why we are here so please consider donating.
- I made contact with and am very grateful to the folks at Team Hotshot. You can visit their page at http://www.teamhotshot.com. I mentioned one of my big athletic challenges for Kona will be the heat and the impact it has on my body. I lose a lot of salt in heat and struggle with cramps. Hot Shot was created to help with this and they sent me some product to try and are considering sharing my story at their blog. That would help me get the word out and would be greatly appreciated. One of my big hopes is that someone will step up with a corporate sponsorship but that is a work in progress. I will write a separate post once I have more time under my belt with the product but today was the first time I utilized it and it went very well!!!
- I made contact with a shirt and medal company thanks to Sam Felsenfeld of Operation Jack. Sam is to autism what I am to cancer. He is an amazing dude and has raised a lot of money.
- We are working on a new logo. We are updating the We Will Find a Cure logo with some Kona flair. The new logo is expected by April 15th.
- I finalized my fundraising letters and will start to get these out over the next week. Check your mail :)
I think that is about it for now on the fundraising front. As for training, I had a good week. To me a good week primarily means minimal pain tied to the ankle that had the posterior tibial tendon repair. Yesterday I would have told you I have zero pain. Today, I am going with minor pain. I got in 3 runs this week. One was very short as it was 15 minutes off a trainer ride. I also managed a 6 mile and 11.5 mile run. The important thing with the run is that I backed down my run-walk interval to a 1-1 (run 1 minute, walk 1 minute). That is the most aggressive I have been in a while. I am using the interval as a means to stay healthy. It forces me to walk and it forces a slower pace. I did average under 10 minutes per mile for the first time.............my pace while running is closer to 8 minutes but that is why I throw in the walk. I honestly could live with 10 minute miles in Kona. I just need to keep staying healthy as I ramp the mileage. For the bike, I had 2 longer trainer rides and then today I had my longest ride in a while at over 75 miles. My pace is nothing to brag about but I did climb 2,900 feet which certainly has an impact. My swim as usual suffered a bit. I did not get in 3 swims and I feel very behind but I did feel good in the pool. Having been sick for about 4 weeks, there was no way to get in the water. I was always coughing up a long which is not a good combination for a guy that doesn't swim great in good health!! I was going to get in a 3rd swim today but the 75 mile ride took a toll on my neck. I probably should have eased into the aero position for that long but I don't really have that luxury. By the end of the ride, there was so much tension in my shoulders and the back of my neck that I decided to postpone the swim until tomorrow. In total, I traveled 143 miles this week. There is still a lot of work to do as I need to increase this to 200+. The schedule for the coming week is to mirror last week...........it is week 2 of a build.
Have a great week.
Christopher D Wilno
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