Team in Training-click to make a donation

I have been a slacker in my running -- I haven't hit the road in my Adidas in over a week -- but my friend Armanda Manuel isn't slacking! She is training to run a marathon in San Francisco as part of the Team in Training, raising money to fight blood cancers. Make a donation at http://pages.teamintraining.org/ms/rnrsa09/amanuel -- $5, $10, $20, anything will help.

She's up to 10 miles now, and 26.2 miles is her goal.

Speaking of running, the Renaissance Half Marathon is a week away in Ridgeland, and already, more than 1,500 runners and walkers have signed up to participate. Just writing about this has me inspired to at least do the 4 miles a day/5 days a week my doctor recommended.