Journey to 14,411 feet start today
Mount Rainier
Jes Borland (Blog|Twitter) inspired me with her public commitment with her training for her first half marathon on her blog here. She posted her plan and how it actually went down every week, good or bad. I was initially just look at her running posts for some play list idea for my run/walk/hike, I ended up reading her entire series and admire her even more. I found myself cheering for her even louder, before she even start her race and I realize that this is exactly what I need to do.
So Jes – thank you for inspiring me. No, no – I’m not going to run any half-marathon or even 5k anytime soon, but I will be joining another 71 climber to trek Mount Rainier National Park and attempt to reach its summit during 2 days journey. This effort organized by American Lung Association under Climb for Clean Air event, a great fund-raising event to raise awareness for clean air and variety of lung disease that affect so many lives, including mine.
You can find my fund-raising page here.
In the next few months, I will be posting my progress weekly. My training plan and how the week goes. I was hoping that I can look back and see my own progress as the time goes and have as many as supporters along the way since this is definitely not just your usual walk in the park.
So there. The journey start today. I’ll be posting my progress every Sunday.
Wish me luck.
That’s awesome that you’re going to post about your mountaineering, too!
I’ve been thinking lately about posting about more broad topics on my blog, too– I think it’ll be really enjoyable to branch out. And I really enjoy reading other people’s posts about their passions and how it all fits into their lives, too.
Yes, I will. Jes really inspired me on this and I think it will motivate me to train and it will be like having my own cheerleader on the side cause there WILL be a week that I won’t move my behind anywhere.
And it’s related to SQL too. For example. I did baselining last weekend on my first hike and find out I have some serious performance tuning to do. LOL.
I will blog about it tomorrow 🙂