Well, it's been a while since you last heard from Ginger (aka La Tortue Enflammé), and I've been really busy with rehearsals and performances of "Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge"! It's been a blast and, after December 18th, Mrs. Bob will be no more. I'll miss having so much fun playing with a great and talented group of actors whom we have unofficially nicknamed "The Mrs. Bob-le Heads". If there's a plus side to the show ending, it's that I can at least start returning to my previous Amish-farmer-wannabe hours. Sad to say, my time management skills have rather gone to pot during the rehearsal and performance schedule. More auditions are coming up in early January, so I'm hoping for another opportunity to restore those skills while maintaining a rehearsal schedule and, of course, training for my next run.
Mother Nature has been quite frigid this December, which means that a chickenshit like me ends up running on the "dreadmill" rather than outside. (I'm a wuss, I'll admit it!) Registering for cold-weather races is something I've done intentionally to help me keep running, despite the cold, harsh Northeast winters. (And, technically, as I write this, it's not even technically winter yet...YIKES!!!) I'm keeping my fingers fiercely crossed that Albany will manage to avoid getting much snow this winter (and, please, NO ice or freezing rain, OK?); the über-freezing, blustery weather is plenty brutal enough for me! (Yes, I've already lost count of the number of times I've considered moving to Florida. This week...)
I am already registered for two runs in 2011: The First Run 5k in Lowell, MA on January 1st; and a run I am absolutely ECSTATIC about running, the RUN TO HOME BASE 9K presented by New Balance® on May 22nd in Boston. This race is a unique and special event that celebrates our military heroes and raises necessary funds for the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program. The Home Base Program is committed to serving the needs of veterans with combat stress and/or traumatic brain injury and their families. Your support to the Home Base Program will help to ensure that veterans who served our country receive the clinical treatment they need for combat stress and/or traumatic brain injury, and that their families get the guidance and support they need. The Home Base Program also seeks to advance innovative treatments that hold the most potential for helping veterans with combat stress and/or traumatic brain injury and their families.
You can probably imagine what a thrill it will be for me (a die-hard Red Sox fan) to cross home plate in historic Fenway Park. This race provides me with TWO unique challenges: It is the longest distance race I have registered for to date (previously, I only registered for 5k's) and it also involves a rather ambitious fundraising goal for me: $1,000. I hope you will take a moment to visit my fundraising page at www.runtohomebase.org/runtohomebase/JoanMeyer and make a donation. Your donation will be sincerely appreciated, no matter the amount! The last fundraiser I ran, the Komen Race for the Cure 5k, I was so pleased and profoundly touched by the generosity of so many donors. In that race, I ran with a sign on my back, listing the name of each person who donated and the names of those whom those folks donated in honor of or in memory of; it was truly an honor for me to wear that sign throughout the race. So I decided to do that again for the Run to Home Base 9k! When you make your donation—whatever the amount—please be sure to indicate on the donation form the name(s) of any military personnel in whose honor you're making your donation. (If you know that person's rank and military branch, that would be great and I will include that info on my sign!)
The race is in May, but raising $1,000 will take a lot of time and effort, so I hope you'll consider making a donation as soon as you can!
Thanks! Gotta run!!! 
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