Posts Tagged ‘#runforRelay’

My next post will be my 700th entry since I started blogging in 2007, but since I already have plans for that post, I thought I’d make this one a numbered, miscellaneous post.

• Tomorrow/early Saturday is my Relay for Life night. As I write this, I have raised more than $1,100 in the past couple of months; my team has topped $3,300. I’m a member of the Grand Club and am so happy to have raised so much to fight cancer. As promised, I’m running tomorrow night — after reaching several different goals, I’ll be running a half marathon. Unfortunately I can’t do that all at one time, so I’ll be breaking the mileage up throughout the night. I have even bigger plans to help fight cancer next year. For now, though, donations are still very welcomed HERE.
• The only thing on my race schedule is the Baltimore Marathon. That will change soon, but that seems weird to me.
• I mentioned on Twitter a month or so that I was going to go for a run streak in June — run at least a mile every day in the month. While I want to do another streak, now’s not the time to think about running every day for a month straight. This is still base-building time for me, not run-every-single-day-and-lose-focus-on-other-things time.
• If you read my shoe post the other day (if you didn’t go read it and come back), I still have not made a decision on a shoe purchase yet. I’m taking my time, continuing to do my own research on the subject. That being said, I failed to mention that my current shoe collection is great — I have about 50 miles or so left in one pair, another pair is probably only one-third of the way through it’s life, and I have a third pair of Ravenna not yet opened.
• About a month ago, I did a Q&A with runningshoes.com — check it out HERE. Thanks to the folks there for allowing that to happen. It’s always a great experience to share my continued journey and to spread the #runchat love.

Have a great weekend of running everybody!

As I write this just shy of 9 p.m. Thursday, I am just $110 from my initial goal of $500 for Relay for Life. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, for every $50 I raise I’ll run a mile, up to 10 miles. Now that I’m so close to my goal, I want to raise the stakes a bit. First, though, I need to get to $500. If I get to that mark by 8 p.m. ET tomorrow, I’ll announce what I’ll do. Just a hint — it involves hitting our team goal of $2,000.

Fellow team leader Carrie has already announced that if we reach our team goal she will walk the entire 12 hours of the event, minus bathroom breaks. We’re at 56 percent of our goal with 57 days to go, but that is absolutely no reason to not donate now.

In an email to friends of mine and on posts to Facebook, I have stated that we’re doing these seemingly crazy things because cancer never sleeps. By stepping outside of our comfort zone and doing this for such a good cause, we will be reminded of the never-ending fight to end cancer. I think the words I used after last year’s Relay sums this up well: “An inconvenient run is simple; battling cancer is not. But thanks to the many people who donated to this effort, we’re perhaps one day closer to winning the battle.”

This year Relay for Life has lowered the minimum donation to just $5. While $5 might not sound like much, every little bit makes a big difference. To donate to my efforts, please visit my donation page.

8 p.m. update, April 8: A big THANK YOU to everyone who made it happen. I hit my $500 goal and then some today. Up next: getting to the team goal of $2,000. Do that and I’ll up my running distance to a half marathon.

For the second year in a row I am taking part in Relay for Life. This time around I’m giving myself some more time to do fundraising, but that doesn’t mean you should wait to the last minute to donate. In fact, the earlier I can hit my goal, the more I can prepare for this.

Why?

Because I’m running for it again. My goal is the same as last year — $500. For every $50 donated, I’ll run a mile, up to 10 miles. Anything over $500 is of course welcome.

Last year’s experience was truly special for me and I realized so much when I ran those 10 miles. I did it for my Uncle John, who died 6 years ago from lung and brain cancer; I thought a lot about my dad, a head and neck cancer survivor; I ran many miles for my grandfather, who had lymphoma a few years ago; I thought a lot about my friend David, who’s gracious mother died from liver cancer. The list can go on and on.

As part of my fundraising effort, I’ve created a tag on Twitter, #runforRelay, to talk about it there over the coming 80 days and to live Tweet during the event. Maybe I can convince others out there to do the same thing.

To donate, please click here.