La Casa Verde

     Alas, the time has arrived! As I sit in this beautiful house surrounded by beautiful people, I can't help but feel how incredibly lucky I am.
     This morning, a super fancy car came up at 6:30 am. The night prior, I only had 2.5 hours of sleep because I was so excited! ...and I needed to finish up some flash cards that I should be studying right now.. :)
     The car ride to SF was surprisingly fast; there was no traffic whatsoever! We picked up Roxi when we got into the city. She is so nice, and she ran the full marathon last year too so she knows how sucky the weather was. After we picked up Roxi, we picked up Alyssa. I think almost immediately we all hit it off, which was something I was a little nervous about :x
     When we arrived at the house, there were literally people with cameras outside the house taking pictures of us. They were telling us to act like we didn't see them, well that was incredibly hard to do! lol Melissa and Rebecca were already at the house and getting ready for hair and make-up. Our house mother, Heather introduced us to the house and the rooms we'll be staying in. My roomies are Melissa and Alyssa!
     Almost immediately after we set our stuff down, we helped ourselves to a pretty nice variety of breakfast foods! After that, we got into hair and make-up to do our photoshoot! We're gearing up for the winter weather so we were wearing a lot of layers, unfortunately... it was pretty hot outside already! hahah More girls showed up like Heidi, Stephanie, and Lindsey and they are in the progress of getting their photo shoots done out in the streets!
     Lots of new things happening and it was all overwhelming and exciting at the same time. Right now, I'm coming down from this tremendous high and I'm very sleepy but no time to slow down!! But... it is time to bust out the books
     Updates to follow! :) :) ....with pictures!

We Did It!

Thank you everyone for all of your 'LOVES', prayers, and positive thoughts that were sent my way. Thank you so much to Linda Tran for the impromptu photo shoot at 7am and her lovely doggy Winston for paying extra attention to my shoes! Even though I entered the contest a few days late and there were a few technical difficulties, the Nike Gods received everyone's good intentions and they delivered! I was chosen, with seven other lovely ladies, to enjoy a 4 day lavish trip in San Francisco to really enjoy our marathon this year. We will all meet and sleep in a house starting Thursday Oct. 13- Saturday Oct. 15 to end all off with the run of our lives on Sunday October 16th! Some of us will run the Nike Half Marathon (13.1 miles) and some of us will run the full (26.2 miles). I will be one of the full marathoners out on the course so continue the positive thoughts and prayers, I'll need them! I am proud to be chosen as one of the eight, not only because it's a marathon, not only because it's Nike, but mainly because it's a race I believe in. I believe in the cause this event helps. For those who don't know, The Nike Women's Marathon beneficiary is the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and I strongly believe there should be a mass destruction of all cancers leukemia and lymphoma included.
Homework is calling my name, so I've got to go but once again, thank you everyone who voted for me! I really appreciate it!

I RUN TO BE... stronger than I was yesterday.

NWM 2011