Day 35: Rest Day

So this is the beginning of the busy season, and I have a feeling my Saturdays for the next few months are going to look a lot like this... Niece's birthday party, Bachelor party, Meredith's going away party (moving to Providence, RI), and Rivertown Breakdown concert... all in the same day... unfortunately I couldn't make it to all of them... And I didn't get a chance to log any minutes.

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Total Pledged/minute: $0.53 + ($1 per pound lost + $0.01 per mile)
Today's Minutes: 0 Minutes
Total Minutes: 1038 Minutes
Today's Distance: 0 Miles
Total Distance: 274.4 Miles

Day 34: St. Charles Day II

As I mentioned, I enjoyed the bike path so much, I came back for a second day.. getting up at 6:30 AM to do a quick morning ride... this time heading North along the river.

I've been lax on the updating the pledge status... thanks to several recent pledges from Rob Kuhn, Spark Cincinnati, Gale Smith and Brad Arthur! Help me get closer to my goal of $1.00/minute and $2,984 for Habitat Ecuador, pledge today!

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Total Pledged/minute: $0.53 + ($1 per pound lost + $0.01 per mile)
Today's Minutes: 30 Minutes
Total Minutes: 1038 Minutes
Today's Distance: 8.0 Miles
Total Distance: 274.4 Miles

Day 33: A Real Bike with Wheels!

So the hotel I am staying at in St. Charles, Il has bikes you can borrow. And there is a great bike trail along the Fox River in town. So I hoped on after classes, and went for a ride... i was so enthralled with being on a real bike going past real things for the first time in like 2 weeks that I just kept going.

I rode through historic St. Charles (which by the way is a great little town), they had at least 5 pedestrian bridges crossing the river over 3 miles. And there were at least 15 riverside bars/restaurants. I can't call it a vacation destination, but it was definitely fun!

I enjoyed myself so much I am getting up early tomorrow to take another ride before class.

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Total Pledged/minute: $0.39 + ($1 per pound lost + $0.01 per mile)
Today's Minutes: 85 Minutes
Total Minutes: 1008 Minutes
Today's Distance: 19.2 Miles
Total Distance: 268.4 Miles

Day 32: Service Travel Meeting

The group got together for our 2nd meeting as a team. The focus was on individual and group fundraising. We've got some pretty fun group fundraising ideas in the planning stages, so stay tuned to see how you can come out for some fun, while supporting a good cause at the same time!

Had to head to the airport to go to Chicago for training, didn't get in until 11 PM, so I only had time for a short ride on the stationary bike at the hotel.

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Total Pledged/minute: $0.39 + ($1 per pound lost + $0.01 per mile)
Today's Minutes: 20 Minutes
Total Minutes: 923 Minutes
Today's Distance: 6.4 Miles
Total Distance: 249.2 Miles

Day 31: Volleyball Wash-Out

So the Tuesday volleyball league got rained out and it wasn't even raining... apparently the horrible rain storm that blew through left about 4 inches of water sitting in the volleyball courts. It rained so hard in the afternoon, we couldn't see the ground from the 16th floor office. Pretty crazy!

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Total Pledged/minute: $0.39 + ($1 per pound lost + $0.01 per mile)
Today's Minutes: 33 Minutes
Total Minutes: 903 Minutes
Today's Distance: 8.5 Miles
Total Distance: 242.8 Miles

Day 30: Application to Habitat

I filed my official application to Habitat International Today. Now I just need to fax in my waiver, and send them my passport info and I'll be official. I'll have a lot more time to dedicate to this trip, and the challenge now that Paint the Town is complete... I am ready to go, and look forward to holding some great fundraisers with the rest of my team. They should be fun events, so you'll get more than your monies worth if you attend... stay tuned for details!

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Total Pledged/minute: $0.39 + ($1 per pound lost + $0.01 per mile)
Today's Minutes: 30 Minutes
Total Minutes: 870 Minutes
Today's Distance: 8.0 Miles
Total Distance: 234.3 Miles

Day 29: Catch Up Time!

Well.. 3 days off in the middle of a 100 day 2,984 minute challenge hurts your efforts, so I figured I'd try to make a serious dent in the effort on my first day back.

So back to the cardio cinema (my 13 inch TV and DVD player in the basement), and Netflix. Not exactly the most exciting movie, but I watched the last 75 minutes of the Butterfly Effect as I was trying to play catch-up.

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Total Pledged/minute: $0.39 + ($1 per pound lost + $0.01 per mile)
Today's Minutes: 82 Minutes
Total Minutes: 840 Minutes
Today's Distance: 22.2 Miles
Total Distance: 226.3 Miles