Well, as I've posted here, I had been training up for the April 26 Country Music Marathon in pretty gradual fashion until about two weeks ago, when I became more aggressive and took the training up a notch. The result was feeling terrible for a few days and the complete loss of a week's worth of training time.

The good news is that I've gotten back on the treadmill this week and am going about 5-6 miles at a time. At this rate, barring any additional setbacks, I should be good to go for April's event. In fact, I'm heading out shortly to get some running shoes.

Had a chance to see Lori's mock trial team in action over the weekend. She's the coach of one of Harpeth Hall's mock trial teams and they had their district competition on Friday and Saturday. I saw her team's first round, which went very well (they got the "W," on their way to going an impressive 3-1-1), and was overall very impressed with Lori's coaching and general ability to guide the team of various aged high school girls. I knew she had been putting a lot of work into it and it paid off.

The iTest Tournament of Champions is inching closer. Lots to do. The competition itself will be better than ever and should satisfy the most hardcore of math students out there. I've given Mathew Crawford complete control of creating the math content for the entire year, and he's doing the typical outstanding job.

The iTest is facing a true financial test later this year as we see if Southern Company sponsors us once again, and see who else we can bring to the table to help fund this event that gives so much to so many high school students and educators across the country. We need philanthropists to step forward and donate money to us so we can not only fund short-term operations, but long-term capital projects. How to identify and pitch these individuals and groups remains a challenge.

But no one ever said it would be easy, did they?

Off to get lunch and run some errands on this President's Day holiday. Later.