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Been kinda sore over here, but hanging in there! Yesterday our large run took us out to Marymoor Park for 90 minutes. I took the opportunity to try a couple of energy products: an actual GU-brand Gu (Orange) and Clif Blocks (Strawberry). The GU…its so weird eating/drinking that stuff. The flavor was ok, but the energy boost was lackluster. The blocks though…wow. Strawberry fruit snacks! Makes me wonder just what the hell was in the ACTUAL fruit snacks I ate as a child. Energy level…still not great.

I’m not sure what the deal is. The product I tried before was a Power Bar-branded Gu thing and its result was instantaneous even if the flavor was completely awful. I think I need to do a bit more experimenting with products before committing to something.

Definitely lookin forward to getting out there again today to do a recover run. My legs are sore but I know I’ll feel better the sooner we get out there. As always, many thanks for your donations!

Throughout the season we have team training on Tuesday nights at Green Lake and a rotating location practice on Saturdays, which also happens to be our “long day”.  We’re starting to lengthen the practices that take place during the week (slowly), but I can feel my body beginning to stabilize out a bit.

Tuesday was good with comfortable weather, and a chance to run with some fellow geeks–It’s funny finding CompSci geeks clumping together on the trails, and as you can expect our conversations turn to odd topics.  Wednesday was a bit more arduous– I did it in the morning and as is often the case with running in West Seattle, took off downhill towards the water.  I got a little hung-up in Lincoln Park with the transition from road to trail and back to road.  Funny how running on uneven terrain hurts so much more than roads going uphill.  In the end I was happy with the run and not injuring myself, which is starting to remain foremost in my mind.

Two really great things happened on Tuesday: the first is that the LLS is the only medical non profit to increase their net assets and increase their funding output over the last 3 of 4 years. Given how rollercoaster the economy is going right now I think that’s a  fantastic thing.

Also, there was a breakthrough in chroniclymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most common type of leukemia affecting people everywhere, every day.  Cellular immunotherapy research is taking off in big ways– stem cells were modified and re-inserted into the patient’s body.  In 2 of the cases, the cancer was completely gone and in the 3rd case nearly 70% of cancer cells were eradicated.  It’s because of people like you helping to fund the LLS and other organizations that this research is done in the first place!

As always, I appreciate your donations! Click the Donate! link above and help out!  I can’t do this alone…