A friend said he had trouble with the donation link in the navigation at the top of the page. For those of you who would like to contribute through Paypal, you can sign up for an account here: http://www.paypal.com
and send money to the email address: give@augustmiles.org
or you can mail a check, made out to “August Miles Fund” to:
David Funk
1348 Woodlock Rd.
Mt. Pleasant, S.C. 29464
Thanks to all who have been generous enough to give!
Here’s a Flash video of August being tickled and rolling over.
Things are going fairly well here in Oregon. Unfortunately, I’ve had to go back to work in the office full time. Qualcomm is not very popular at our house. August is teething, so he’s not very happy lately, but he is fairly healthy. He had ear tubes put in a couple of weeks ago and that went well. He seems to be eating from the bottle a little more steadily. Previously he had just gulped down the milk and stopped after a minute. Maybe there is less pressure in his head now.
This past Saturday (10/6) was the dreaded 20 mile run in my training program. This is the furthest distance I run prior to the marathon. It had been cool all week, so I was optimistic about Saturday. I took my son, Collin, to a birthday party in the late morning. It was cool and overcast. Walked out of the birthday party and it had popped up to about 85 degrees, no clouds, and really awful humidity.
It wasn’t pretty, but I chugged through it. Next day I read in the paper about all the trouble at the Chicago marathon due to heat. Now, I’m really glad I made it.
Two Saturdays ago were rough. Schedule showed 18 miles. My neighbor showed me this cool website, mapmyride.com, where you can zoom down to street level and plot a running or biking course. It’s nice because it gives you a totalizer to show total miles. Mapped out my run last Thursday. It has been cool lately, so I was hopeful it would be that way on Saturday. Nope. It got up to about 85 with over 90% humidity. Definitely not running weather. I went out and finished.
I have to admit, one thing that is making my training easier is the inspiration I’m getting from the donations you all are making. Thanks so much for the nice notes. I’m saving them all and will give them to Janet and John when I see them at the marathon. While running I think a lot about what my priest said a couple of Sundays ago during mass. His talk was about being a Christian and that it is not easy. It takes dedication and a conscious effort each day. He compared it to training for a marathon. It takes much determination, and conscious effort. But the pay back of having friends and strangers cheer you on through the end of the race knowing what it took to get so far and wanting you to cross the finish line. He said he hopes the first few minutes of heaven are like this. I draw a lot of inspiration from that and wanted to thank Fr. Paul for that.
