If you are laughing, please know that this is no joke. My calves are not laughing!
If you don’t believe me, well, you’re in good company but I assure you I did run a full 12 miles.
I'm not good with distances and measurements so I went to Google maps to find out just how far 12 miles is.I found that it is 6 miles from my house to John Wayne Airport so a round trip would be 12 miles.
The Bay Bridge in San Francisco is 8.4 Miles.
Manhattan Island is 13 miles long.
Impressed yet?
On October 15th I'll be running the Long Beach Marathon - OK, I'll be running one half of the Long Beach Marathon - 13.1 Miles (and for our metric friends, 21.097494 kilometers.)
I will run this race in under 3 hours if I can help raise at least $1500 in memory of Joe Gogue. If you support me (and the Hospice that helped Joe in his final days,) I'll reward you with a race souvenir. It may or may not be a video featuring interviews with my race team and me at various points throughout the race.
Did you see Oprah and Gail's Road Trip? Well, this will be Susan, Tracy, and Judy's Marathon (OK, Half Marathon but who's counting.)
You can support my efforts and donate to the hospice in Joe's memory at the following link.
http://www.active.com/donate/runtoremember/rtr2006JoeGogue
Of course this is tax deductible so be generous.
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