Stats

Days to go: 98 (27%)

Miles completed today: 3

Total miles completed overall: 752 (75%)

Miles to go: 249 (25%)

Miles required per day to meet goal: 2.5 

Total time run today: 22 minutes, 2 seconds

Total time run overall: 3 days, 20 hours, 26 minutes and 32 seconds

Average time/mile today: 7 minutes, 21 seconds

Average time/mile overall: 7 minutes, 23 seconds

Total Pledges to date: $9,728.82

Pledges/mile to date: $9.72/mile

Money raised to date: $7,309.44

Day Two Hundred Sixty-Seven Notes

The exhaustion continues. It is not that the new boy is up all night. He continues to be a good sleeper. The hot and unusually humid weather combined with being outnumbered and forced to play a zone defense against the three boys--the oldest of two who seem to go fewer minutes between altercations with each increasing percentage point of humidity--have sucked my energy, leaving me listless and to an equal degree helpless.

I got up early to try to get my miles before the sun became too punishing, and again I ran with little spirit, leaning forward and forcing each unwilling leg, as heavy as a wet log, to catch up. Sweat soaked and sleepy, I rewarded my efforts with a trip to the farmers' market where I bought a half flat of ripe and shiny, incomparable Hood strawberries which along with six stalks of rhubarb, I later turned into a pie.

The first strawberry rhubarb pie of the season. Reason enough to show up for the day.

Thank you for your support.

Chris Chiacchierini 

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