Longest run...

Is done. Well, until race day.

We have officially entered our tappering part of training and are nearly ready for our race. We ran for two hours two weeks ago and it felt amazing.

Can Seattle do it...

(Megan, showing off her "Bunco" win with the Bunco glasses! She was one of our big winners!)

After a very successful Bunco fundraiser in Portland, I arranged a second event up here in Seattle to see if I could rally my local friends and raise more than the Portlanders.

I had tons, and tons of prizes (tons of Brooks gear, AquaSox tickets, Girl Scout Cookies, wine!), and four days before I only had three people committed (my local TNT girls), so I was nervous. But I rallied and got my event out around work, day care, my fellow Gymboree moms!

I was able to hold this event at the Brooks Corporate office in the cafeteria. It was perfect; plenty of tables, chairs, space for snacks and easy clean up! And, at the end of the night I had 13 people come to play!

And the drum roll, did they beat the Portlanders???
This is a tough questions because I changed up some of the stuff for this event. In Portland, the buy in was $10, in Seattle it was $15. In Seattle, if you brought a friend, you got an additional raffle ticket. In Portland, I sold extra raffle tickets for $5. Needless to say, Portland still beat them in total, but per person, Seattle won! Let's face it, everyone was really a winner her, it all went to a great cause!

Thanks to everyone who came out to play! It was a blast!

Run With Abe 2.0

(Run with Abe 2.0 Group Photo)

So, I have been a bit busy at work, so I have a bit of catching up to do! No worries though, while my blogging has subsided, my fundraising and training has not!

On March 28th, my mentor, Megan and several other TNT Mentors organized and held the 2nd Annual Run with Abe (last year they did it on President's day in honor of Abe Lincoln's birthday—this year, they held it a bit later!).

About a month prior to the race, they asked me to recruit runners for the race and in return they would help me with my fundraising goal. I was able to get several donations from Brooks for prizes, Rick came out and volunteered on the course and Jackson and I walked the 5k race!

They got an estimated 200 runners to come out and join in. All in Abe Lincoln costumes! It was a great success! It even made the local community blog: http://fremont.komonews.com/content/celebratin-abe-early-morning-5k

Thanks to all of those who came out and ran, organized and donated to Run with Abe 2.0!