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donna

shadydonna

About Me

so, about me...i'm 28 (almost 29), married, no kids, just a dog. i'm pretty quiet unless you know me and then i might not shut up. i have a quirky sense of humor and i like to make other people smile.

I got this layout at MyspaceGeeks.com

My Interests

my most obsessive hobby right now is running, which i do whenever i'm not working or hanging out with friends. i'm training for my first marathon in October. i'm running with a group called team in training. we raise money for the leukemia and lymphoma society. anyone interested in tracking my running and fundraising progress can visit my tnt web site: Just Click Here
my other less obsessive hobbies are shopping, hiking, reading, sewing, knitting, cooking, gardening, dancing.

I'd like to meet:

hmm...probably gunter grass and maybe cyndi lauper. she was my hero back in the 80's.

Music:

just about everything...i dislike some country and some gansta rap, and yanni...most everything else is varying degrees of ok.right now, i'm listening to hip hop in my car and punk when i run.

Movies:

i LOVE movies, except for scary ones. i don't wanna watch anything that is going to give me nightmares, i have a vivid enough imagination without the help of a movie.

Television:

since i finished grad school i watch alot of tv. it's sad but true. i like house, heros, bones, criminal minds, sopranos, the list could go on. but my all time favorite is law and order.

Books:

german lit. gunter grass is my hero.

Heroes:

my dad. he's the toughest man i know and he's nice. that's not a combination that happens very often.my college german professor. he kicked my tail and made me realize that nothing in life would ever be so hard as his class. now, i know i can do pretty much anything.

My Blog

it’s MARATHON time!!!!

t minus one week and counting.  that's right, this time next week i should be well into (and hopefully, nearly finished with) my first ever marathon.  it's been a long, hard, sometimes lonel...
Posted by donna on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:12:00 PST

long (very long) run

less than 3 weeks til the marathon!  saturday i ran my longest run ever - 20 miles. scarily enough, it was alot of fun.  my friends and i spent most of the run joking around and looking back...
Posted by donna on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:23:00 PST

Only 5 More Weeks

the countdown has begun, i only have 5 more weeks until the marathon.  my runs are going well, despite my utter lack of energy (i'm taking iron and b12 in an effort to remedy that).  i am ru...
Posted by donna on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:53:00 PST

long runs...my brick wall?

well, like i said in my last post, my longs runs are starting to get a lot longer.  this past week, i ran 16 miles on thursday to get in my long run and still have fun at dragon con.  the 16...
Posted by donna on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:47:00 PST

training update

training is going well.  i'm almost 3 months in.  i ran my first half-marathon (that's 13 miles) a week and a half ago.  and then somehow miraculously managed to ride a bike after that ...
Posted by donna on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:59:00 PST

running...do i talk about anything else?

this has to have been my worst running week so far.  training pretty much didn't happen.  first, my ankle was still giving me grief so i went to the doctor.  he says i need pt if i want...
Posted by donna on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:54:00 PST

Training, Eating, and Sleeping...its all I do

Well, one more week down...this was a tough one for me.  my ankle is STILL screwed up and that makes me mad.  i ended up replacing a run with cross-training one day and today i had to c...
Posted by donna on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:32:00 PST

Running, of course....

hmmm.  where to begin?  it's been a very busy month of training.  That's right, i've finished 1 full month of training and i've lost count of how many miles i have run to date but i thi...
Posted by donna on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:25:00 PST

Team in Training Update

For anyone interested in tracking my progess this summer as I train for my first marathon and raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, through Team in Training, I am planning to post period ...
Posted by donna on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:06:00 PST