From the Border to the Bridge - Fighting Childhood Cancer - a 330 mile Running Odyssey: Kick it Up

The Plan - No Cheating......

How We will do It

1. We will begin each day around 7am (planning 10 hour days) and end at 5pm or there about.

2. Each day we will go approximately 30-35 miles. If we are not in the city where our lodging is located, we will stop at 35 miles and drive to our lodging location for the night

3. In the morning we will drive back to our previous days stopping point and begin the days' run.

NOTE: I made errors in the estimated mileage between a couple of resting points (Ithaca & St Louis for example.) I will continue on and thru the stopping point to obtain the estimated mileage for the day; we will drive back for our nightly lodging.

So if you see me in our support vehicle it is because we reached our daily estimated mileage

Gj will not cheat :)

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Kick it Up - All Systems Still Go

Time to Kick it up- All Systems Still Go - It’s been way too long since I’ve updated our blog you must be thinking that I’m wimping out, nothing could be further from the truth. Save for crippling injury or accident, I will not quit! I have made a promise to my Little Buddies and their families and I will Keep it:

"I will continue to run to raise awareness of childhood cancer, neuroblastoma and raise donations for the cause until my legs get too old or tired to run, then I’ll ask my Heavenly Father carry me onward in my racing till the cure is found…Yep! That’s my promise to you and I’ll keep it."

The plan is developing a little more every day and the route becoming surer. Within the next few weeks, Lydia and I will be traveling the route to see what awaits us. We’ll also be scoping out possible rest areas, and motels for nightly rest. I’ll send this information along with the cities identified along the route to a special NB grandma, who’ll stat making contact with the city officials and the motels etc. to see if we can get a few nights lodging donated to the cause.

So here’s what the plan is starting to look like:

1. Finalize route – by mid December, 2008
2. Drive route (2 weekends)
3. Identify cities travel thru or close by
4. Identify motels along route
5. Identify daily rest areas along route.
6. Send gathered information to wonderful volunteer.
7. Wonderful volunteer starts making contact with officials & lodging owners.
8. Contact “Connie’s Celebrations” 6195 Lewis Ave, Toledo, OH - (419) 476-1931‎ to get permission to use her parking lot as the starting line for the run.
9. Continue spreading the word
10. Continue working and looking for sponsors. So far, we have contacted"

A radio station (no response yet)
A producer of a health /fitness TV show/fitness expert (interested in advancing the cause-awaiting further word)
Organic Food Bar – The Sponsor of my “Everyday Hero Award” -Yes
A running company that specializes in emergency identification for runners (no response yet).
Obtain “Promotional Business Cards” to hand out at races I participate in, or to anyone at an opportune time. Completed