I am training for my first marathon, which will be on the 30th of march in Tel Aviv. Can´t wait! :)

I ran the LA marathon in 2007, one of the hardest things, but most rewarding things I have ever done!  It definitely teaches you a lot about committment.  It helped me realize that I can do anything I put my mind to!  Congrats and good luck to Michael!

Love this!!! These charities are so important!

And for anyone who didn't know (like me), LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. Best of luck to Michael!

I ran my first marathon on 10/10/10 in Portland, OR. It was one of the best experiences of my life.  I was never a runner before I made the decision run a marathon.  I ran for Hospice of Oregon.

Way to go Michael! We hope that you reach your goal, and have a fun time in the LA Marathon!!!

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I haven't ran a marathon, but do enjoy racing in 5 and 10Ks along with doing Mud Runs.  Best of luck to him and thanks for highlighting a worthy cause.  I hadn't heard of Courage Campaign Institute before, but will definitely check them out.

Gretchen

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The efforts put to have a great pregnancy are heartwarming, but personally being perfectly heterosexual reading your blog who is all about food lack all the human side of having someone beside you talking to you directly or going with you to the mall, which as far as I'm concerned is 85% of the pleasure there is to have being with someone we love... Where is the human contact? Michael Bridges seem like a nice guy, but personally doing a marathon or any useless exercise just for doing it would be my worst nightmare, in my case doing it with another guy wouldn't add any pleasure... I'm a strong supporter of LGBT rights, but being perfectly heterosexual and much at ease being with womens, since I don't know anything about that world the best way to help right now would be to support peoples who know what they are doing like a newspaper, I heard The Advocate is one of the best... Why make Michael Bridges run, I can give to the charity directly... The childbirth experience of Lalanya seem to have been really painful, personally I never received any complaints about my attitude... Also, not being a doctor I relate a lot to the character of Dr William in the movie "Eyes Wide Shut", feelings being important to me just thinking about having an affair could kill something...