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FYI Everyone: You’re going to want to donate your $1 if you haven’t done it yet…special giveaways announced at the end of this post!! Go to www.FirstGiving.com/VisionRunner to get your donation in for Guide Dogs for the Blind and be entered into the special giveaways that will be happening for donors only!!! As you know, we only need 30,000 people to donate $1 each. There really is a power of synergy at the grassroots level. Every one of you donating $1 and telling everyone you know can do miraculous things in the world…Let the miracles begin!!

And now, on to your regularly scheduled content!!

Chocolate Milk

Imagine you have just run 8 miles: you’re hot and sweaty and the thought of eating a high carb and protein meal does not interest you in the least.  In fact it’s the last thing on your mind. A shower yes, but eating no! 

But you know that eating within the first 30 minutes after a hard workout is essential to start the recovery process, and for replenishing your glycogen stores. In fact, the faster you get nutrition into your body, the faster and more completely you will recover from your run.

Now imagine a cold frosty glass of chocolate milk. Yep! Chocolate milk!  This quick and delicious drink can start the recovery process minutes after you finish a run or workout.  Not only does it have the carbs you need, but it has the protein as well: both in one easy-to-tolerate glass of chocolate milk. And when I put it in a chilled glass, it gets frosty almost like a milkshake!! Mmmm, mmmmm.

But remember: it’s just the first course in your recovery meal.  Make sure you follow it up with a more substantial meal, such as a turkey sandwich or other high carb and protein combo within the next hour.  And yes, that part can wait until after your shower!

How ’bout it?

-Vision Runner

P.S. Don’t forget to donate your $1.00 at www.FirstGiving.com/VisionRunner if you haven’t donated yet. All donors from the beginning through (Sunday) the end of this fifth week of my 1,222.25 Virtual Run Over To Ellen’s Fundraising Project will be in the drawing to win a special limited edition Vision Runner ink pen…It says “Dare To Envision A New Reality.” How’s that for daily motivation and inspiration right there at your fingertips?!! And we had less than 10 made up, so they are very rare…and soon to be a collector’s item, I’m sure!! Again, special giveaways and promotions and private access to the daily video updates and the donors only area is available to everyone who’s donated $1 or more!! So take action now and click on this link right here:  Vision Runner’s Run Over To Ellen’s Fundraising Project

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If you’ve been with me since the inception of this blog, you know my Starbucks history and how much I love my Grande Americano from the Starbucks menu . But what I love even more is being able to save 30% on every cup of coffee I order! 

And let me tell you how I do that…

Here’s how:

Costco had Starbucks gift cards:  Buy $100 worth of Starbucks gift cards for only $80!  A savings of 20%. (I haven’t checked to see if they still have them or not, but it’d be worth checking out if you love Starbucks the way I love Starbucks.)

I had just gotten my new Starbucks Gold Card, and the Starbucks Gold Card gives me a 10% discount on all my purchases. So I loaded up my Starbucks Gold Card with the Starbucks gift cards I had gotten at Costco, giving me a total saving of nearly 30% or .62 cents on every $2.20 cup of coffee!   And since I’m not going to be giving up my beloved cup of Starbucks coffee anytime soon, I loaded up my Starbucks Gold card so that I have 6 months worth of drinks on it! Ultimately saving me over $100 in six months.

Gotta love that!

How ‘bout it?

-Vision Runner

P.S. How ’bout donating $1.00 today to Guide Dogs for the Blind? There’s a FirstGiving Donation Box/link in the right hand side bar. You can see the summary of my 1,222.25 mile Run Over To Ellens Fundraising Project at RunOverToEllens.com

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I’m really loving being able to run again after my triumph over sciatica this winter. And now that the weather is stutteringly wandering towards spring, so much the better! 

I’m doing much better, back to better than normal in fact, and I’m sure, if you’ve been following my progress, you know about my new fundraising project, where I’m running 1,222.25 miles from Montana to the Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank California on a virtual Run Over To Ellen’s. In order to accomplish my mileage goal, I’m going to have to average 36 miles a week for the rest of the year.  

As far as my fundraising goal, we only need 30,000 people to donate $1.00 each to raise money for Guide Dogs for the Blind. So if you haven’t donated yet, just click on the FirstGiving fundraising box in the right hand sidebar, or go to www.FirstGiving.com/VisionRunner. Once you donate at least $1.00, you’ll have access to our private Donors Only page where all sorts of special secret surprises await…

Having healed nicely, one recent afternoon, as it commonly occurs, my mom met me for a walk as I was finishing up my run.  We ended up back at her place, where I said goodbye and then ran the few blocks over to the busy intersection where I would cross to get to my favorite Starbucks on the corner. 

The light turned and I ran across the street at a very slow and easy pace.  I got onto the short section of sidewalk that would take me over to Starbucks. I’m not sure what I was thinking about … maybe it was how much I was going to enjoy my favorite item on the Starbucks menu, a Grande Americano, or how good it felt to be healed up and not to have tight calf muscles after my run. 

I don’t know, but all of a sudden my foot went off the sidewalk and I just knew I was going to fall and I saw it unfolding in slow motion: like time slowed down.  

I put my right hand out to brace the fall, but then I did something amazing.  My shoulder tucked under and I just went with the fall, rolling all the way back up onto my feet, and not missing a step! 

In amazement, I felt for my cell phone and mp3 player and safety flasher lights…yup all still there!  I walked into Starbucks still stunned at my highly uncharacteristic acrobatic move. 

Thinking that one of the workers at Starbucks must have seen it, and they all know me, I asked. But, nope not one witness to my spectacular feat of athleticism. . .

Oh well, that’s how things roll sometimes…even me!

Maybe it’s my new alignment??? 

How ‘bout it?

-Vision Runner

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