What? You can't believe your eyes? Colleen's blogging? Did hell freeze over? Are pigs flying?
Yikes, it's been a while. I must say, I've taken a little social media break. No blogging, no blog reading, very little twitter and facebook. I just don't have the time right now and quite honestly, it stresses me out a little thinking that I'm "behind" on social media. I'm going to admit something and I hope it doesn't offend any of you...
I marked all blogs in my google reader as "read".
I'm sorry. It was well past 450 unread blogs and it literally was stressing me out. I love all of you and enjoy reading your blogs, but time just hasn't allowed me and I felt like I was sinking into a black hole.
What did people do before blogs?
So I'm starting fresh. I'm hoping I didn't miss anything too terribly much. If I did, I'm so sorry. I just had to prioritize a little and unfortunately that meant putting you, my favorite bloggers, on the back burner for a bit. But it doesn't mean I don't love you! I do... I promise!
So what's been new with me?
Fundraiser went AWESOME. I think we raised about $63,000 this year for Women's Health at the local hospital. I'm really proud of the event and where it's come in the last three years. It's such a great cause and I feel so honored to have been a part of it for the last three years. We've gotten people talking about it... anticipating the next year and that's very rewarding! Everything came together exactly how we hoped!
This past weekend I was in Chicago with my second favorite team (Trakkers has my heart, don't worry!!!). The Team Type 1 running team was doing the Chicago Marathon. Although this was my "A" race of the season and I was hoping to go sub-4:00, that was put on hold for a later date. I did manage to run half of it (I had a bib, so I started the race and then just walked off the course at mile 13.1). That's a hard thing to do (both physically because at the half marker they have a fence on both sides of the course for a while so I couldn't get off the course and mentally because everyone else is still running and I'm adding a big fat DNF to my record willingly). But it was either that or run alone along the lake that morning. Much more fun to be in the environment and holy smokes was the environment crazy awesome. I'm slowly getting back to running and feeling good. My speed and endurance isn't there (although it never was really there, but humor me), but I'm working on it!! In any event, I loved loved loved every minute with the TT1 guys. They are such an amazing group of athletes, so inspiring people to be around, and freaking hysterical. We laughed... a lot... and let me tell you... they kicked some serious butt at the race. There were a few struggles along the way, but they stuck together as a team. I love these guys and can't wait to see many of them in just a few weeks at the end of Run Across America in NYC. Here they all are outside Maggiano's - the perfect prerace meal!
So I can't make any promises that I will be blogging more, and more involved in social media in the coming days. Things are NUTSO in the Kingery house... more to come on that really soon.
But I'll try my hardest.
I love you all still. And I just wanted you to know that I haven't forgotten about all of you.
