I kicked off my fundraising efforts last week by (finally) finishing my appeal / ask letter and mailing it out to former teacher and professors. This weekend I plan to send out the next round to friends and family. I just got done mailing out 2,000+ fundraising letters at work for our organization, Illinois Legal Aid Online. So I may need a few days of rest to break from the envelope stuffing and licking it requires.
On another note, the Chicago Marathon informed me that the big day was exactly 6 months away... but oops! It's actually in 5 months. A correction email soon followed the first. I'm positive all the nerdy runners out there jumped on the opportunity immediately to correct the mistake. The date, amoung other things like having enough water, is one thing you shouldn't screw acround with.
Cheers!
6 Hours, 29 neighborhood and numerous gel packs later, Chicago Marathon 2008 is finished! The temp reached 84 degrees that day, and 33,000 runners participated.
A big thank you to all of my supporters for helping to make it happen. Adrienne and Dave made sure I was fueled at mile 9, Teri met up with me at mile 13 to run by my side through the hottest part of the race, I bumped into Rodrigo and Addy at mile 18 while grabbing more gel packs, and Rodrigo found me on the bridge and sprinted the last 200 meters with me (in his flip flops!). It was awesome!
And even more amazing is over $700 will be donated to Hope Runs, which will help its children's program in Tanzania and Kenya. Read more about it at www.hoperuns.org. And fittingly so, the male Kenyans dominated the race this year. Read the Tribune's coverage here.
Along with all the congrats and hugs and handshakes, a question I keep getting is will I do it again next year. If you asked me around mile 23, the answer would have been a exasperated, exhausted and angry " NO WAY!" But a month has passed, the pain wore off, so only more time will tell. Running is addictive so odds are, another marathon is on the horizon. :)
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