Another Team Diabetes Fundraising Success!!!

I hope you've all recovered from whatever Canada Day fun and festivities you partook in over the weekend.

As mentioned in my last post, I was MCing the 40th annual Wellington Canada Day festivites. It was a great time, and if I do say so myself, I did pretty damned good. It was a little odd mcing something for the first time as anything other than a member of the media, but it all worked out great.

Big thanks to Brock, Anne, Mom, Dad, Raymond, Murray, Ann, and of course Amy who all manned the Team Diabetes face painting tent and did some professional looking face painting for well over 100 kids yesterday. We managed to raise $280 on face painting and bracelet sales alone, which is exceptional considering we were only charging $2 per face.

I would also like to thank the Wellington Recreation Committee for their very generous $300 donation to my campaign as a compensation for my MC duties. It was unexpected, but greatly appreciated...of course they presented it to me right before I hit the stage, so I had to make sure my A game was in check...a smart move on their part. ;-)

On the training front, I was up early and went for a chilly 7:30AM run with Amy yesterday morning. We covered 3 miles, which is really good, considering a short few weeks ago, Amy was struggling to last more than 5 minutes on the road. I'm proud of you baby...keep it up!!!

And on a side note, I tallied my miles for the month of July, and they came out to 104.75 (168.54 km). This has put me at a total of 467.25 miles (751.8 km) since I started tracking my distance in a log, back in February.

More training notes to come later in the week.

Will