Happy New Year! I'm sure that all my friends and family have set goals for 2010 - perhaps to lose weight, get in touch with old friends, do more to ensure a healthy body, finally clean out the attic, or any number of a million other goals people set for the new year. I also set goals. This year my goals include getting back down to my size and fitness level from 2005, recycling more, and doing my part to improve one of the greatest challenges to global health and economic prosperity - ensure clean drinking water. Will you help me?
Unsafe drinking water is the world’s leading cause of sickness and death, places a barrier between women and girls to accessing basic education and also keeps families in poverty. Yet it is a simple problem for us to solve. Around the world, but primarily in Africa, I have witnessed what happens in communities that are water deprived and seen the great joy and growth in responsibilities in communities that have received the ability and management tools to access a lifetime supply of clean water through the generosity of organizations and countries from all different walks of life.
Few know that just $30 provides one person with a lifetime of safe drinking water...that's just two large pizzas from Dominos, or six lattes from Starbucks or means that you buy one sweater from Target instead of Macy's or Ann Taylor. For my part, I am running in 2010 with "Team Blue" to raise $3000 for water projects supported by the Blue Planet Run Foundation. As part of "Team Blue," I have dedicated a significant amount of time and energy towards creating access to safe drinking water for the billion people in need around the world.
Will you help support this worthy cause? If you would like to help me reach my fundraising goal to provide clean drinking water to 100 men, women and children in 2010, lace up your shoes and join "Team Blue" or visit my fundraising page at https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5505/t/3491/my/donate.jsp?supporter_my_donate_page_KEY=1091. Every penny makes a difference.
Want to track my racing this year or join me for one of these runs to raise money for clean water? Below is a VERY tentative schedule of what I have on tap for 2010. I look forward to your support.
Water is life...pass it on!
02/13/2010 - Valentine's Day 5K
03/07/2010 - B&A Trail Half Marathon
03/27/2010 - Run to Register 10K
04/03/2010 - MARSOC Cross Country 10K Mud Run
04/11/2010 - Cherry Pit Ten Miler
06/05/2010 - North Face Endurance Challenge 50K
06/12/2010 - Crossroads 17.75K
06/20/2010 - Dawson's Father's Day 10K
07/10/2010 - Women's Distance Festival 5K
07/17/2010 - John Wall Mile
07/24/2010 - MARSOC Run the Beach 8K
07/31/2010 - Blue Crab Bolt 10K Trail Series #1
08/01/2010 - Dog Days 8K
08/14/2010 - Blue Crab Bolt 10K Trail Series #2
08/28/2010 - Blue Crab Bolt 10K Trail Series #3
08/29/2010 - Annapolis Ten Mile Run
09/11/2010 - Mantua Potato Stomp
10/03/2010 - Metric Marathon
10/09/2010 - Warrior Dash
10/16/2010 - Beirut Memorial 10K
10/24/2010 - Army Ten Miler
11/06/2010 - Down's Park 5 Mile
11/07/2010 - Battleship North Carolina Half Marathon
11/21/2010 - Cold Turkey 10K
