5 Miles Again

I seem to be sleeping a little too long the last few days so have not had time for a run longer than 5 miles.  I hope I can wake up earlier tomorrow.  When you work 7 nights a week, it can be hard to have time to run for several hours.  Here it is an even bigger problem because I have to work around the couple of hours available where dinner is served. It cuts right into the middle of my non-working time. 

I'm sticking with the treadmill.  -33 outside with a -60 wind chill.  That's enough to keep most folks inside, then add the dark and no place to run but the ice road with the trucks.  No thanks.  I have become very fond of the treadmill.  I am slowing picking up my running speed.  I guess I will see if it has paid off next month when I run the Walt Disney World Marathon for Team In Training.

Still no luck getting any donations.  I keep trying to come up with some more incentives because curing cancer just doesn't seem to be enough. But I can't give up.  If you want to beat cancer, you just don't give up.

More Miles on the Treadmill

I ran another 5 miles today on the treadmill.  17 below zero outside, so definitely indoor running time! I felt pretty good and did try to do half of it at my faster speed goal.  I think I am gradually getting to the pace I want.  I can tell it was a good workout because I could go longer at the 10 minute mile pace.  I'm hoping for a long run tomorrow.

Still no luck at all with donations.  I may just donate up to my minimum before the end of the month.  May as well get the tax write-off right?  There is my minimum requirement for Team In Training but my actual goal is whatever it takes to bring about a true lasting and final end to cancer.  How amazing that would be!

 

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5 on the Treadmill

Another 5 miles logged on the Prudhoe Bay Hotel's treadmill.  I like to hold the bar loosely and close my eyes and pretend I am running on the beach in Maui.  Ahh, wishful thinking.  It's really snowing and zero degrees with perpetual darkness here. Thank goodness we do have a treadmill here. I'd go crazy trying to figure out how to train for marathons without it.

I sure need some donations to my Team In Training fundraising page.  I'm hoping that in time my Red Bubble photos might sell.  It's all to fight cancer. 

I just love their little promotion slide show.

6 More Miles

I had a nice rest day yesterday but back to the treadmill today. I pushed myself up to my desired pace for 3 out of the 6 miles that I ran.  I want to get back to a consistent 10 minute mile.  The treadmill is good because I can set it for my desired pace and I have to run harder to keep up with it.

I'm not doing very well in my fundraising though.  Seems that my pleas for donations or for sales of my photos go unnoticed.  But I won't give up.  I will run faster and I will raise the money and I will live to see the day when there is no more cancer.  No one can tell me I'm not an optimist!

Please have a look at my photos on Red Bubble
or on my Habataku website
or simply make a donation to my Team In Training page.

Gotta get rid of cancer!

Fight Cancer - Photos for Sale!

I really want to sell my photography to raise money for this important cause.  Have a look at my Red Bubble photos.  Lots of different products.  I will donate whatever you pay for your order, directly to my Team In Training Page.

Another Day Another Treadmill Run

They have been remodeling the exercise room here at the Prudhoe Bay Hotel so sometimes I can't get in there when I want to.  But so far I have made it two days in a row.  I had to wait around for a while today though.  I just ran 5 miles at a fairly relaxed pace.  Night shift is catching up with me.  I usually take about a week to really adjust again.  It's -8 with a wind chill of -28 and of course it is also continual night with no place to run out there.  So I will be spending lots of quality time with the treadmill this month.  But that's OK.  I am very thankful to have it. 

I posted lots and lots of pictures on Red Bubble last night.  I don't think my photos are particularly unusual so it won't surprise me if none of them ever sell.  But it does give me another way to promote my Team In Training events.  I think it also gives me incentive to try to come up with either photography or some other form of art that really is unusual.  Then maybe it will sell.  I went to sleep thinking of what new ideas I could come up with. 

Meanwhile I just run, and post to Twitter and Facebook and hope for the best.

Back in Deadhorse

I'm back up at work now and since it is dark and cold and there is absolutely no safe place to run outdoors, I am also back to the treadmill.  I just did a nice 5 mile run.  At least on the treadmill I can set speed goals and force myself to run faster.  Picking up speed is my goal for this month.  I really want to get back to my old 10 minute mile instead of continually slipping into 12 minute or more per mile.  I need to have more reasonable marathon times in the future.

It was a spectacular flight past Denali yesterday as I got a glimpse of the last rays of sun I will see until next year when I go home New Year's Eve.

Denali Sunset From The Plane

I've been gradually adding my photos to the Red Bubble site to try to sell them to make money for my Team In Training fundraising.  I like that a person can order all kinds of items from the pictures on that site. I'm not having much luck raising money so far.  Mostly I have been raising it out of my own bank account! But that's ok too.  I would like to be able to raise a whole lot more than the minimum requirement though, and that will take help from others.