Good News!

We got some good news, my poor tired running girls and I...we have been approved by Sports and Recreation Nunavut as an official club, and that comes with an activity grant of $10,000.00 to take the kids to some competitions! Woohoo! So, I have done some shopping around and the 5-ish Fun Run in Winnipeg on June 3rd is calling our names. So four girls and I will be winging our way south to take on our first real run. We plan to leave on May 30th (just in case Kivalliq is delayed, and then we can get out on Friday). We will return home on Monday, June 4th. The girls will get a free lunch and a race T-shirt for their effort. Me, I get a pain in the hip, LOL! Whatever I injured in January has never fully healed. Likely a pulled ligament. I can run, but I have trouble walking, and trying to cross my right leg over my left to put on a sock? Almost impossible! I empathize more and more with my Mom and her hips every day!

I also have a few guys who are interested in joining running, so I may have some competition for the spots in October. On the brighter side, I may have found my marathon group! I hope that next year we can do a 10K, and the two years after are for some 20K half-marathons. The big goal is for July of 2016 and the Arctic Bay Midnight Sun Marathon in Nunavut, at the top of Baffin Island.

So, if I can train and stay healthy, and my leg doesnt get mad at me and fall off or something, will any of my family journey up to see me run my tushie into the ground? That would be worth the cost of the airfare, I'm sure! Any takers to laugh at my misery? Heck, go cheap and just head to Winnipeg, I'll be limping around enough there and  you can laugh for less, LOL!

Still no phone, cable or internet, so I'm living at the school. Of course, this is nothing new. I have my big fundraising auction tomorrow night, so I have been preparing my list of items and baking like crazy. We got an Air Inuit ticket to auction, and I will have a plant in the crowd to bid for me. We should raise close to $2000 for the event, hurray! And a big Music Night on the 27th, and Movie Nights each Saturday along with our practices...I need to be two more of me! Of course, then I'd just irritate the heck out of myself, always giving myself advice that I didn't want to hear, so I'd just wind up shooting the spare me's anyhow...oh well. I can relax when I retire...

TTFN!

Terri