REACHED FUNDRAISING GOAL!!!!!!!!! :) :) McGill Bake Sale #2

THANK YOU GRANDMA AND GRANDPA MOROZ!!!! I am ecstatic today!! I have reached my fundraising goal of $2,500 and can now officially participate in the Ride to Conquer Cancer!!! It has taken me just over a month to raise this enormous amount of money that I honestly didn't think I would be able to. I have been overwhelmed with people's generosity, words of encouragement, and help! I could NOT have done this without each and everyone of you!! So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you, thank you and THANK YOU!

Today Jen and I hosted our second McGill Bake Sale. We had generally the same things as last time and after a slow start, which had me quite worried, we managed to raise $285.96. It was under $20 less than what we raised at the last bake sale which brings us to a grand total of $587.73 from two bake sales. Not bad! I want to thank my parents for supplying the majority of the baked goods, it was a great donation because it had a high return on investment, thank you! I want to thank our helpers once again - Jen's Mum, Mona, Georghia, and Tina. And thank you to everyone at McGill who supported our cause.

Training has and will take a back seat until Thursday when I hope to resume in all hardcoreness. I will definitely keep you updated on that, Jen and I have less than 2 weeks before our 10 km run in Quebec City!

Once again THANK YOU to everyone, you are awesome and I can't thank you enough!

Mad Hatter's Tea Party!

First let me just say, "WOW"!!! Last night Jen and I hosted our Mad Hatter's Tea Party. It was a FANTASTIC evening and I think I can safely say we all had a great time. It wasn't all just fun and games though, we managed to raise $408 for our ride. I must do my thank-yous. Thank you Mona and Amir for baking an amazing cake (our centre piece!), thank you Tina for bringing wine and a veggie platter (to delay the sugar coma at least a little), thank you Rox for bringing A TON of alcohol, thank you Georghia and Chris for helping with the decorations, baking pizzas, making potato wedges and bringing extra chairs! Thank you Jen for also helping to decorate and for having such an amazing costume! Thank you Mum for providing the sparkling wine, thank you Mrs. Wright for the amazing tea cups for which we couldn't have had the party without! Thank you Amy for the kick ass costume and decorations that really pulled the party together! And lastly, thank you to each and every person that came out last night and generously donated to our cause!

Jen has kindly posted all of our pictures from last night here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/117930013981631912894/MadHatterFundraisingTeaParty?feat=directlink

My training has taken a back seat lately due to all of the baking and planning we have been doing! I will post more updates when I get back to training!

Tuesday we have another McGill bake sale where hopefully we can meet our fund raising goal!! Thanks to this party I am now at 95% of my goal and have less than $200 to go until I can officially do the ride to conquer cancer!

Thank you!!

McGill Bake Sale #1

Last night my apartment was filled with the wonderful smell of baked goods! Myself along with Jen, Mona, Tina, and Georghia baked ourselves silly for our first McGill bake sale. The bake sale was a resounding success!!! We had 36 large cupcakes, tons of mini cupcakes, 24 double chocolate muffins, 12 cinnamon bran apple muffins, 1 banana bread loaf, pan of rice krispies, pan of triple chocolate brownies, 18 chocolate chip cookies, pieces of maple fudge, 15 bags of mixed nuts and a tub of lollipops!! We opted to run the bake sale by "donation" so people would give what they felt was appropriate for what they took. Although we figured most people would pay about $1 per item we were very surprised and pleased when we realized most people were giving double that - $2 an item or MORE!! Needless to say we essentially sold out of everything and made a grand total of $301.77!!! Jen and I split this right down the middle (to be fair and honest I got a penny more than she did!) so that I am now at 87% of my goal!!!! A giant thank you to everyone who baked and an enormous thank you to everyone who bought our items at the sale! Our next event is the Mad Hatter Tea Party! I have put our tea cups (thanks to Mrs. Wright!) on the table and it looks awesome! I can't wait!!!!

I have currently put my training on hold because after Sunday's outing my left leg was giving me extreme pain, even to walk, so I figured my body was trying to give me a signal ... My leg is fine now, but just to be on the safe side I thought I would take an extra day off. Injuries are the LAST thing I want! Hopefully tomorrow I can resume! Will keep you posted!

Training, Training and more Training

Friday - Swim

3.8 km

1 hr 20 min

Saturday - Day off, the legs were still a little sore from Mont Royal run! Plus, Jen and I went bike browsing (Thanks GM and Chris!) ... you know, just in case we need bikes ....

Sunday - Holy moly was it windy today - Weather Network said 40 km/hr winds with gusts clocking in around 50 km/hr! (Therefore, the bike was a little slower ...)

Bike - 1:01.24 Hrt Rate: 155 bpm average

25.24 km

24.6 km/hr avg.

Run - ~ 9 km Hrt Rate: 165 bpm average

55.51 Avg. Speed: 9.7 km/hr

I was quite pleasantly surprised, because after the bike my legs were burning and my heart rate was very elevated through out the whole run, but I managed to run the 9 km in the fastest time yet! Yay for improvement!! Lets hope I can do it faster without the wind and the bike first!

I just wanted to thank the wonderful Mona Aflaki for baking double chocolate muffins on Friday. Thanks to everyone in the lab I have raised almost $50! Thanks everyone! I am still sitting steady at 81% of my goal ($2,015) but we have the McGill Bake Sale this Wednesday, our Mad Hatter Tea Party this Saturday, and another McGill Bake Sale on the following Tuesday. Lets hope Jen and I can reel in the donations!!!

Easter break and then more training!

I would just like to do my shout-outs first, THANK YOU to Dr. & Mrs. Robson, Tim Venhuis and Jami Stanford for their awesome contributions, I have raised (with your help of course!) $2,015.o0 and have accomplished 81% of my goal!! Only $485 to go!!!!! I also wanted to thank Georghia and XiaoYan for bringing in treats to sell for the ride! Thank you!

Alright, I have fallen behind on my training updates!

Wed March 31 - Bike Ride

Thursday April 1 - day off (drove home for Easter)

Friday April 2 - Jeffy and I went on a bike ride 40 km

1:34.00

149 bpm average

(My bike computer wasn't working so this is based on Jeffy's ride)

Saturday April 3 - Jeffy and I went on another bike ride 38.5 km

1:29.00

154 bpm average

Sunday April 4 - HAPPY EASTER! Had a wonderful dinner at Grandma and Grandpa

Moroz's place and took the day off to visit friends

Monday April 5 - Drove back to Montreal - day off!

Tuesday April 6 - Swimming (3.8 km, 1:20)

Wednesday April 7 - First run up Mont Royal! About 10 km

1:02.42

167 bpm average

So, this week and last week I didn't get as much training in as I wanted too, but from here on out until May 2nd 10 km race I am putting the pedal to the medal!!

P.S. Mona is awesome