Larissa: It's our last post!

Paula: YAY!

Larissa: You don't mean that.

Paula: No, of course I didn't. I've loved posting on this site (grin).

Larissa: So full of lies. But given that I was the one that abandoned the posting during my Stats course I'm hardly one to point fingers...although I am Pointy McFingerson.

But can you believe it's our last post? So, was it worth it?

Paula: It was definintely worth it. It was extremely motivating knowing that people were watching our progress and making donations.

Larissa: Just re-reading our first post, I'm so struck by your story of not running more than 5 steps, and now you've run a whole 5 km. It really is amazing. You really did great!

I wish I had done better, but I did what I could and it could have been worse. At least I didn't do a faceplant, nor was I attacked by my running bra. So it's all bright side, silver lining, yeah?

Paula: We both did a great job. We've both come so far since we decided to do this race and we should be very proud of ourselves.

I keep thinking I haven't come very far, but then reading our first post really shows me that I've done a lot since then. The support of Volunteer Ottawa staff and volunteers, friends and family, has been amazing and is the one thing that helped us reach this goal.

Larissa: Very true, this is a great organization with awesome people in it. And, we were also hoping to raise $2,000 towards Volunteer Ottawa's community programs. How did we do, final count?

Paula: We reached our goal. We raised $2,110! Thank you to everyone for supporting Volunteer Ottawa and for cheering us along!

Larissa: No kidding. A big thank you to all of those wonderful people. Congratulations to Paula for an amazing job, and maybe we'll see you here again next year!

Paula: Congratulations to you too, Larissa. I'm looking forward to the 10km next year.

Larissa: Shut up! That would be amazing. Hey, why don't you go for the marathon? You've got a year, lazy bones.

Paula: Yeah, not likely, those marathoners are insane. But 10 km? Stay tuned.....