Avon Walk Weekly Update
It’s time again for my weekly Avon Walk update. If you’d like to see my full training calendar, check it out here or on the left sidebar of my blog.
Thoughts on training: This was a slow week of training due to the rain. I know I should be training in it, but I just can’t walk around in wet socks and shoes.
Along those lines, I’ve decided that instead of bringing two pairs of tennis shoes, I’m going to bring my tennis shoes and a pair of sandals. That way if it rains, I can wear the sandals or if my toes start cramping up, I can throw on my sandals. And they won’t be very big or heavy to carry in my bag.
My friend A and I also decided that we’re not going to tent this time around. It was going to be a big hassle to bring camping gear plus stuff for a week long vacation halfway across the country. On top of that, she has a business trip starting the Monday after the walk, so she’s going to have a lot more stuff to bring than I will. By not tenting, we also don’t have to check out of the hotel early Saturday morning and back in Sunday. Plus we’ll be able to take a real shower and sleep in a real bed Saturday night. I’m pretty happy with our decision.
Thoughts on fundraising: I got a huge boost this week from some GE matching gifts, so I have surpassed my original goal of $2,500 this week!
Miles walked last week: 0
Minutes doing cardio: 0
Minutes doing cross training or weight lifting: 0
Total $$ raised: $2,764
Thanks to everyone who has donated so far! If you’d like to donate to support my walk, you can make a donation on my Avon Walk page.
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
baked donuts are fun but they don’t really taste like donuts (as much as I tried to convince myself). Making regular fried donuts is fun and pretty easy!
You made me laugh…a lot!!!ahahahah hugs..and have a nice week
I loved seeing your hot cocoa and peppermint marshmallows featured as a finalist on PW’s food photos! Good luck!
You know you are my 30 by 30 mentor, right? I’ve started working on two of the items on my list right now but it is going to be interesting to see if I can get it all done in a year!
I love this list! I’m totally going to do a 30 by 30…once I turn 29 (very soon!) The fiance and I actually started a google doc list of our to do list and this reminds me of it! Thanks for the motivation to do more.
What a great list, wish I would have thought of doing this a few years ago! Good Luck!!
This is such a great thing to do! I’m hoping I can do the same on my 29th birthday!
You are making amazing progress on this list! I wish I was this good!
OH WOW! Fab list and Fab accomplishments.
you are on a roll! i think it is funny that you can’t visit your bro because he moved into a fraternity. wise call.
wow, such great progress! i wish i was more on top of it when i turned 29… maybe i was too scared 😉
Just starting the projects is half the battle! I finally did my own painting “touch ups” in the living room last week. I used the canister that said “dining room white,” because they’re the same color, right? Nope. When it dried, it was very obviously NOT “living room white.” *Sigh.* So much for getting that project done – I just made it worse!