Journal of Pier Luck

It's been way too long since I have written in this, but we have been so busy! All I have time to update on is the fact that Maw Maw went to the doctor today to find out the results of her scan and the tumors are all gone! She is cancer free, so that is exciting news. I can't believe it; I can't believe how effective the chemo was, despite the fact it didn't bother her 80 year old body too much. She does only weigh 96 pounds and her hair is thin, but she never got really sick from it or anything. They did find a different little nodule in her lung that they will be trying to biopsy if they can, so I will keep you updated on that. I just can't believe how much the research has helped treat people like Maw Maw effectively. In our fundraising, we always run across people who are skeptical and say that research isn't doing any good. Well, now I will really have a strong comeback story to tell them about Maw Maw. We just had Dustin's surpise party this we...

Happy Independence Day! We woke up today at 6 AM and ran 15 miles on Girvin and the hills of Wonderwood Expressway bridges. We had to get in the car and go put out 3 bottles of gatorade and water and some gus before hand, so we didn't get started until about 7:30 from our house. We both took Gus before hand also. It kind of sounds cocky, but I'll say it anyway, running 15 miles was not even hard today! That's pretty awesome! I told Dustin at the beginning when he started talking about time goals, that we needed to try to keep our heart rates under 150 and just have a nice steady run where we feel like we could go much further at the end. That's exactly what we did. With stops included, we ran it in 2:27 (9:48 pace), which is a lot slower than we are used to. But guess what? We aren't going to be sprinting the Ironman, ya know!??? It sprinkled on us in the beginning and then poured down rain with about 2 miles left. It was kind of refreshing at first, but...