It's on like Donkey Kong

My final blog before the run this Sunday and I'm oddly a little emotional about it. It feels like I've been at summer camp and this is my final correspondence with my best friend from home.

Dearest Dimitri,
     It has been the fastest three weeks of my life, so much has happened I will never forget this experience, the good, the bad, and even the sad.  I wish my parents had enough money to keep me here for the entire 8 weeks. Sadly I am the only one going home Sunday, but not before we stomp Camp Mohawk in the Olympiad. Spaz won the stacking contest, Fink beat the Stomach in eating hot dogs, and Tripper instilled in us that "it just doesn't matter." Now it's up to me in the 10k run. Whatever happens being here at Camp North Star has taught me so much.  I'm going to miss writing you, although it would have been nice if you wrote me back, did I tell you I was in the Bigfoot cabin?                                                                               Yours - the original Rudy

I think there's a film in there somewhere, maybe a Chariots of Fire meets Zoolander meets 300.  I should get in touch with Ivan Reitman's people. Whether it's a, "I love it you're green lit or get out of my office I already made this film it was called Meatballs dipsh*t", it has been a great experience writing this blog. At it's inception it was simply something I started because I knew I couldn't repeatedly solicit or facebook people for donations in the same rote manner. So I thought if I offered up some effort with some pedestrian writing ability I would seem less the Santa that stands outside the Home Depot during Christmas and more the young boy in a baseball uniform offering crunchy milk chocolate bars for a dollar. Not sure if I achieved that distinction but I've had a lot a fun writing and from a fund raising perspective I consider the blog a homerun. I have raised a near $3700 for the race, money which will certainly help someone somewhere advance the cause for the obliteration of cancer. Thank you to all who have supported by reading, emailing, calling, and most of all by donating your hard earned money. I am forever grateful and I am encouraged to continue raising money for charities close to my heart. It is important for me to say that no dollar would have been possible if not for Hunter and his family. They have truly inspired us through action and Hunter's legacy will live on in those lives he has touched. We celebrate him and the many children fighting for their young lives.

T minus 5 days

So it turns out sadly I won't be able to run in my hunter green shoes, apparently they're not made for running. Ridiculous I know, but I ran in them for two days over 8.8 miles and they left the bottom of both my calves throbbing to the point I couldn't walk. I had a bag of frozen white corn bandaged to one and a bag of frozen carrots wrapped to the other. Now I'm running in my newly purchased pair of New Balances 760s and I have to say they're pretty F in comfortable. This past week was filthy rich with blogging material, I feel like I could have written an entire book on how NOT to train for a 10k but I'm gonna keep it short. I've put in close to 20 miles of running this week, I got to run with several members of the evil news team, and on Sunday I ran a continuous 5.6 miles. Now I'm in my taper down phase, which is code for I'm done training. I'm gonna just focus on what to wear, what to eat, and which super expensive sock I'm gonna buy for the race. As I say to my daughter before soccer games, "It's on like Donkey Kong" see everyone on the flip side of 10k.

  

We run on Sunday 

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