I have reached a very important milestone today - I am officially past the halfway mark of both my kilometre tally and my fundraising goal.

Hey everyone, I haven't posted an update on the fundraising progress in a bit, so I wanted to tell you how stoked I am to be at 38%!

This certainly seems to be the year of running. Clearly, when you are training to run a marathon, you need to get a lot of running in, but now I've also signed up to run on a relay team in the Vancouver Marathon - in 3 weeks, yikes! I'm running the first leg, a 10K segment that will go past my house, so that's kind of exciting and I'm really looking forward to running with my new friends. The only problem is that I'm on vacation until 2 days before the race which means the only training I'll be doing is sitting in a pub in Halifax. That and maybe lifting lobster from my plate to my mouth. Neither of which is going to help the running, but anyways...it'll be OK.

I've learned so much about arthritis since I signed up for the Joints in Motion run and it really is incredible that so many people think it is just a minor affliction that affects old people. That's a small part of it, but there are debilitating strains that attack children and adults and cause tremendous pain. Here are some facts you may not have known:

How common is arthritis?

A Health Canada study published in 2003 indicated that 1 in 6 Canadians has some type of arthritis (most commonly osteoarthritis), and 60% of them are under the age of 65.