I don't know if you know this or not, but the next Monday I am supposed to start training for my Green Bay Marathon in hopes of earning $2000 for Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). I have an 18 week training program all lined up from Hal Higdon which I will tweak here and there, as I see fit. Of course, that tweaking and this alliance might come crashing down sometimes in the next week or two. You see, I have had this knee pain for a few months now and I tried naproxin, stretching, stretching, icing, stretching and more naproxin to take the pain and swelling away. Sadly, nothing has really changed. It could be a problem with my knee cap sliding, could be irritation from a previous broken leg surgery or tendinitis. Or... it could be worse.

I talked to a trainer, and I think I am going to call and try to set up an appointment to get my knee looked at Thursday or early next week. I hope everything works out okay. The training would need to start soon and I need to be confident going into this. I want to do it was fast as possible and I want to be able to do it to help out MDA.

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I had to take off work today to get an MRI and then get a follow up on it, and I wanted to say a few things about it.

1. St. John's Hosptial is too big. I had no idea where I was going and how to get out, I had to ask some random lady how to even find the main entrance. I felt like a board game piece in the game Mouse Trap.

2. When I put on the blue patient clothes to get my MRI, I was glad there was a mirror in there. I came to realize either I am on the same level as the doctor's from Grey's Anatomy in the looks department or just about anybody can look good in the blue hospital clothes. Personally, I think it's a little more the first option than the second, but you be the judge.

3. If you're afraid of an MRI machine, you've got problems. Talk about relaxation, if I didn't sound like I was at an airport or have Dave and Deena from 103.7 blasting in my ears, I bet I woulda fallen asleep. And for the record 103.7 do we really need to listen to people call in about first baby words or if you remember your son/daughter's first words? I'm sure 98% of them were: DADA or MAMA. If it were something like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilic ovolcanoconiosis, then yeah, I might be impressed. By the way, according to wikipedia that is the longest word in an English dictionary.

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Seeing how today is my first day of " training" for the Green Bay Marathon, I thought it would be fitting to announce that my work with MDA is just getting started! The site has been up for awhile, but I wanted to wait for a few weeks before I sent it out for a few different reasons. Mainly, I wanted to make sure that I would have the mental toughness to gut through actually doing this and secondly that my knee would be able to hold up after the injury I suffered through. Okay, maybe it wasn't that bad, but I'll bet it was close.

Lets not get lost on minor details, because I am happy to announce and to post my link from MDA to help raise them money and awareness to fight this terrible disease by running the Green Bay Marathon on May 16, 2010. If you just click right HERE you will be taken to my donation page provided by MDA. There you can see a few different things, including an amazing picture of my blazing speed on the road way at the Green Bay Half-Marathon in 2009. (Don't worry, I plan on changing this to a picture of Kelton and myself. It's a solid picture that I took one day in his photography course while he was taking a test.) More important than that amazing running form, however, is the huge flashing red box that says, "Click Here." Clicking on that will take you to the donation page for MDA and tell you a little about the cost:

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1.  Ndamakuong Suh should be the number 1 pick in the 2010 NFL draft.  The ability to control the middle is being lost with rush ends and the 3-4.  Pressure up the middle against the run and pass is still the most effective start to an NFL defense.  QB's can step up to avoid the rush on the outside, but there is no substitute for having a C/G pushed back into his lap.

2.  You cannot convince me that Tim Tebow is an NFL QB.  I don't think that he has the footwork, touch or understands how to move through his progressions.  His biggest "asset".. his legs will not worry NFL defenses at all.  He's not explosive and could not take that pounding day in and day out.  He's a good story, but not a legit prospect.

3.  Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball will not lose a home game this year.. with or without Jon Leuer.  Trevon Hughes and Jordan Taylor can play.  Somehow, they've managed to win 2 games they've had no business winning because of mad offensive struggles (Michigan and Penn State).  A win is a win.. especially without your leading scorer.

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