The Inaugural Post
Well, I figured I should finally get off my lazy bum to start this blog. Hopefully, this will be a blog where I can let the world know how well I'm progressing on my training (barely OK, weather permitting) and more importantly let my wonderful awesome donors know that I actually am working for their donations. Yes, despite my lazy bum. Hopefully, this will also be a blog where I will be persuaded to use proper capitalisation. I refuse to commit to either British or American spelling, because spell checking takes time and besides, if you understand what I'm trying to write, that's better than many posters out there anyways....
And why not hamster? Okay, there are hamster references everywhere because manymanymanymany people I know say I look like one. Or behave like one. While I'm pretty sure I'm not inclined to scuttle around looking like a furry Ferrari and getting stuck under the couch, enough people have told me this that I'm starting to wonder...
Anyways. For those who don't quite know, yes I will be attempting to run the 111th Boston Marathon, all 42.2 km/26.2 miles of it. Theoretically, to qualify I have to prove I can run a marathon in 3h 40mins, which might be hard seeing as the furthest I've every run "competitively" was the Standard Chartered Half-Marathon in Singapore about 2 years ago. So I decided to run in support of my university's Friedman School Of Nutrition Science and Policy. This means that while I don't have to meet the qualifying time (which is somewhat insane for me), I do have to raise US$1,000 for the Friedman School (which is slightly more achievable).
Hint, hint. *grin*
Soooo....if you would like to find out more about the Tufts Presiden'ts Marathon Challenge, head on over to www.tuftsmarathonchallenge.com. Or if you are so utterly enthralled with my sales pitch (it was the hinting, of course, you can donate online. If you want to send a cheque or donate money, I'm currently in the process of working out how I can get money from Singapore to the US, so I'll let you know. Although I do know that you can make out the cheque to "Trustees of Tufts College", but that's unfortunately about it. Maybe you could donate a dollar per kilometer run :) That would make it $42. Or even 50 cents. Or even $50. You never know.
AND, you can check out my little corner of the web at http://www.tuftsmarathonchallenge.com/runners/sonia! I'll be mostly updating this blog, but we shall see if I can be bothered to link the two. I probably will, at some point. After I get out from under the couch.
