"When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?"

Okay, first things first. The yard sale was yesterday and although it was a ton of work, and I don't ever want to host or have anything to do with another yard sale again in my entire life, it did raise over $600 for the Canadian Diabetes Association, and my Team Diabetes campaign.

This is amazing...to raise 10% of my goal in one morning is a good accomplishment. I have to thank Amy, Mom, Dad, B, Henry, and Raymond for helping out yesterday...it would have been even more chaotic without you. Also, I would like to thank Suzan, Shelly, and Jamie...and Amy, Dad, and Raymond again for your help on Friday getting all that stuff set up. And finally, I would like to thank everyone who donated merch for the cause...Tim, Ann and Dave, Gary, Rosalie, Ma and her everyone who was involved in her church yard sale for donating their leftovers, Suzan, Fish and Norma, Pat, Bethea and Hank, Aunt Chris, Mom and Dad...this would have never happened without your generosity...you guys made a difference!

In other news...I really neglected my training schedule this week, due to conflicts...I did 7 miles on Tuesday, Wednesday I missed due to a golf tourny, Friday I did 20km on the bike for my X-training, and yesterday I ended up missing due to the fact I was up at 5, and working my ass off all day for the yard sale and wasn't really feeling the run later in the day. So all that being said, I decided I can't miss a long run day, so I did it this morning, and sacrificed my recovery run...this comming week, I'll get back on track...I promise.

This morning was a 60 minute run, and before I left I created a new playlist for my ipod, and loaded it up, the when I started out, I turned on my ipod and Heart of Hearts by !!! was on...it's a wicked tune, so I decided to let it play, then it went into Award Tour by A Tribe Called Quest, then another Tribe tune came on, and another, and another, I realized it was playing the songs in order by artist, and on my ipod A Tribe Called Quest comes right after !!!. Anyhow, the Tribe kept me going the entire run and cooldown, Scenario was starting as I got back to my front porch, so this explains the title of this entry. And of course for those of you who aren't super mega music geeks like myself, then I'll explain..."When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?" is a line rhymed by Phife Dog in the track Oh My God, from the Midnight Marauders album...feel free to spout that off the next time you find yourself at a pary surounded by old school hip hop junkies!

Anyhow, the tribe got me moving through 7.75 miles this AM, which is .75 more then usual, so I must have been flying.

L8r.

Will