Beading

My friends and I bead necklaces and sell them in our community to raise money for kids in Kenya. The necklaces are beaded and we put a running girl charm on them along with other charms that can be added when certain distances in running are achieved.

My friend made me a necklace blue and white when we were training for my first half marathon, Miles with the Giant. I wore it for the first time when we did a practice run of the half marathon route. After finishing the half marathon race I earned my 13.1 shoe charm which I added to my necklace.

I have another necklace that is not beaded and just has a leather chain, which I bought when training for my first Fire Fighters 10 Mile Road Race.

My newest necklace I made when I had started training for the Manitoba Marathon, then the race didn't work out and I hadn't earned my 26.2 shoe to add to the necklace. I wore this same necklace to train for the Myrtle Beach Marathon, even though people who are superstitious would think that the necklace was now bad luck I wore it anyway. I kept it on for race day as they say not to change anything on race day.
I finished the marathon and earned my 26.2 shoe which I added to my necklace today (Thanks Karen).