This has been a really great week for our campaign.  We have had a number of very generous donations, raising our current total to $1,325!!!  Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far.  With just under two months before the race we are over 65% of the way there.  We can't begin to explain how grateful we are to our friends and family who have donated, but we have truly been left speechless by the generosity of people we barely know.  This campaign and this organization mean a great deal to us.


Thank you all again!!

Thank you to everyone who took the time to listen to me today at Three Rivers Running Company.  I really appreciated everyone giving me a few minutes of their time.  Thank you especially to those of you who are now visiting our blog after talking to me today.  We are really excited to have you follow us and appreciate your generosity if you decide to donate to us.  We are nearly half way to our goal.  Thanks again everyone.  Keep following us.  We are hoping that our campaign really takes off from here.

Wow!!!!

Great night guys!! We got some great donations tonight, and as promised I matched our donation that put us over $500.  Amazingly we are now at $875!! This has been a great night for our campaign as we jumped to nearly 45% of our goal.  I will be at 3 Rivers Running Company in Fort Wayne tomorrow to talk to customers about our campaign.  For those in the area, stop by and say hi. I will have some WWP items to give away.  3 Rivers Running Co. is now currently located at:

4039 North Clinton
Fort Wayne, IN


Hope to see some of you tomorrow! Thanks again so much to everyone who has donated so far!

Hey everyone,

It has been a while since I last posted.  We are still looking for our $500 mark.  We are only $10 away, and remember, I am willing to match whatever donation puts us over $500.

As an update on how training is going for the race, James and I are both running hard, and cross training hard as well.

Last week I visited James at Purdue and together we saw Act of Valor.  If you have not seen Act of Valor yet, I cannot urge you enough to go.  If you have not heard of the movie, it stars real, current active duty Navy SEALs.  The movie is a great action movie, but it also provides a look into the personal lives and personal struggles of our nation's servicemen and women.  All around it was a great movie, I am hoping to see it again in theaters, and I will no doubt buy it the day it comes out on BluRay.  For those still on the fence, I am posting a trailer to get you to the theater.

The most moving part of the movie however was the credits, during which they name all of the casualties that Naval Special Warfare has suffered since September 11, 2001.  These are our nation's heroes and they leave behind sons and daughters, wives and husbands, and mothers and fathers as well as friends and loved ones.  It is easy to forget, 10 years after the start of the war, how many have lost loved ones, and how many more have had their loved ones return wounded physically and mentally.  I cannot stress enough how important the work is that The Wounded Warrior Project does for these people.  Every dollar given to this cause is a dollar given to help those coming back from the war having made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of you and I.

Thanks again for reading and following!!

Here is the trailer for Act of Valor, now in theaters

We are less than $50 dollars from reaching $500 and a quarter of our goal! To help us get to $500 and push past it, I am willing to match whatever donation puts us over the $500 mark, no limit.  Whether it is $1 or $100 I will match whatever donation gets us past that mark.  Please keep donating to our cause! We have already come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.

Thank you so much

Hey Wheel Watchers!

Tomorrow is the final day of Military Spouses Week on Wheel of Fortune.  I have watched whenever I been able to this week.  I think the husbands and wives and families of our nations active duty service members often go unnoticed, but they constantly sacrifice, too, as they are moved around from city to city, or even country to country.  They must also go for long periods of time with a loved one far away and in harms way.  I think this is a great campaign by Wheel of Fortune to thank those who often go unrecognized.

Taking care of military families is also a goal of the Wounded Warrior Project. By helping to heal and engage our nations wounded veterans, WWP also does a service for the families of these veterans, helping to return them to a normal way of life.  Whether it is getting their husband/father a prosthetic leg and rehabbing him so that he can play in the yard again, giving their wife/mother counseling so that she can cope with her PTSD, or even helping them to find a job so that they can simply pay the bills like any other normal family, WWP is constantly striving to do what is right for our veterans and their families.

Thanks for listening and keep donating!!

Happy Super Bowl Sunday everybody!!

We want to thank everyone who has contributed so far.  Without even starting serious fundraising we have already raised over $300.  James and I are hoping to get into running stores soon in our respective areas and talk to some people about our cause.  James will work on getting donations from his battalion and I am going to be working on getting donations from Momper Insulation, who employs multiple veterans.  We appreciate your continued support.  On days like today, when we are all celebrating with the people we love, I always think it is good to remember that there are people who are currently away from loved ones, fighting to protect us and our freedoms, so that fun days like Super Bowl Sunday can still continue.  So tonight as you are watching the game, drink a beer and eat a wing thinking of someone who is sacrificing for you.  My family is lucky enough that my brother, currently deployed in Afghanistan, was able to come home on his mid cycle break to spend some time with his wife and children this weekend.

Thank you everyone

Go Eli! Beat Brady!