Journey to 14,411 feet start today

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.

I’ve moved!

After attending Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter) Free-Conference session’s at Chicago about branding, blogging and presenting, I decided to change the look of my blog and move my domain to  http://yannirobel.com.   Some of you probably already thought that’s what my blog URL was, but it wasn’t,  It used to be http://sqlscribbles.com which will be up for a while for all the archive that were link to it but no new content will be added there.

I’ve made a commitment to write more, to *gulp* submit abstract this year to present and to give back more to this wonderful community that like an extension to a family to me.  I met wonderful, intelligent people that some of them are become a really good friend for life through this community.

So if you are one of the odd one out there who I am lucky enough to get the feed out of my blog via RSS or actually bookmark the link of my blog, please do change it to my new URL.

Here’s to a new beginning!