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Met with a host of old Team in Training chums at the Rose Bowl yesterday to celebrate Virginia Garner's 20th anniversary on the drug Gleevac. Facing death from cancer in 1999, she took a chance on an experimental drug. A generation later, Virginia lives to help raise money to fight leukemia, lymphoma, and assorted other Grim Reaper blood cancers. Her amazing story, and that of husband Van, is chronicled in their book: Journey to the Finish Line: Surviving Cancer Together.
I mentioned to the group (SGV marathon team) that I felt one more marathon resting within me. This was because I had a great running book idea that needed the happy ending of a marathon. (Finishing time of no consequence.) Ideas sprang forth including the LA Marathon and one I'd never heard of: the Ventura Marathon, said to be a net downhill and a big Boston Marathon qualifier.
Ventura is in October, but I doubt I'd be ready by then. I'll need to decide soon since marathons tend to fill quickly these days. (Except LA, where they were offering discounts in February.)
Exciting to even contemplate. More soon on this momentous decision.
2 comments:
Hi JP
LOVE the backdrop! Happy Easter back. Bravo to all who are taking up the fight against Cancer! Thankfully, it is no longer the automatic death sentence it once was, if caught in time. But that's the key, again. Timing IS everything.
Don't do more than you can, relay wise. A good walk is healthier than a two minute run that ends in a crawl. My running days are long over.
How is that man who collapsed at church? Hopefully okay. How fortunate that he was surrounded by immediate nursing staff. Yup! I wouldn't mind fainting in church! My pastor's wife is a nurse! I'm covered!
Again, be careful with the training! Slow and steady wins the race.
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