Monday, April 3, 2006 We have officially passed the halfway mark in our fundraising efforts!!! Yippee!!! We so far have collected $6,005 in cash donations and have been busily getting Prize donations for our upcoming fundraisers. When I came in to work this morning there was an email adivsing me of an on-line donation of $30 that pushed us over the $6000 mark. I'm so excited. We have 4 1/2 months till Iceland and our 3 Fundraisers to go. Mike & I still have friends and family to hit up for donations so hopefully with all of that combined we'll reach our goal no problem. (We hope!) :)
Thank you to everyone who have been so generous so far. We appreciate every single donation (everything from $5 to $1000 to date--it all really does add up!) We appreciate you passing on our request for donations to your friends and family and contacts. And we also very much appreciate all of the prize support we have been getting from local and not so local Game stores and friends and contacts too! A special thank you to Mike's friend, Liane for her generous Starbucks prize donation. Stay tuned for more details and our continuing progress........
Monday, April 03, 2006
Friday, March 31, 2006
Beach Volleyball Tournament-June 17th
We are running a beach volleyball tournament on June 17th at Coquitlam Town Center's Beach Volleyball Courts. The format is 4 on 4 mixed and there will be an 'A' 'B' & 'C' playoff pools so all teams are welcome. Again all proceeds will go to our fundraising efforts. For more info and to sign up just email us.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Only slightly unrelated
Drexoll Games is having a trade in event for your used games. Since they've been so supportive to us for our boardgaming fundraiser (see below a few posts) I will pimp it for them.
Drexoll Games Trade in Event!!!
Drexoll Games Trade in Event!!!
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Training update
Well training is going along slowly but surely. We recieved our training schedule from the CDA and the program to complete a marathon starts April 23 and we need to have a base run of 10k for then. We're a bit behind on that but we'll be ok. Waleah's found a pair of shoes that seem to work for her so that is a plus. Sunday was a tough run, we did intervals of running 5 minutes & walking 1 minute 8 times and that totaled about 5k plus our warmup and cooldown brought us to 7k, Still a long way from 42! What made it tough was the fact that we didn't run at all for 8 days, we just let life get in the way of training. My legs won't let that happen again! Today's run was ok, a bit tired once we started but as the run went on they loosened up and felt ok. Thursday's run will be interesting it's 3 & 1 intervals 10 times, still a little less than sunday's though, but still a good run considering we've only been training seriously for a month or so.
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Curlers Rock!
A quick update for those of you following our progress.
Last night at Curling at the RCCC in New West one of our fellow curlers got up and made an announcement on our behalf. Thank you Violet!! Last night alone we managed to collect another $326 towards our goal. We have just hit the $5000+ mark. Yay! And we also had many fellow curlers asking if they could bring their pledge forms back to us next week or donate on line. Of course we said yes! We really appreciate everyone's support!! Just under $7000 more to raise before mid July. We curl with a great group of people on Friday nights in a mixed league. Some of you may recall the earlier blog entry at the end of January refrencing my broken wrist....ah yes.. But that will only keep me away for the remainder of this season (2 weeks) and next year I'll be back as good as new. And I think that both Mike and I intend to join a men's and women's team respectively as well as keep playing on our Friday Night Mixed League. Last night we also managed to find that there are a couple of gamers in our midst at Curling too and have recruited more people to attend our Gaming Fundraiser in May. Stay tuned for more details on the Golf Fundraiser in May in Chilliwack. A couple of Golfers in the midst said they would like to attend that one too!
Next....Just returned my new shoes for a different pair. My first ones just weren't working for me. The helpful staff at the Coquitlam Running Room have set me up with another pair and I'll give these a try. Wish me luck that these are the ones that will be staying! And helping me work towards my goal. It's amazing how important a good pair of running shoes are to your training. You don't need a lot of equipment to run, but you sure do need a pair of shoes that fit your feet properly and give you the support you need. It's amazing how different we all are and how many different pair of running shoes are out there. Thank goodness for such well trained staff at stores like the running room.
Well that's all for today; I must get back to tidying up the apartment. We have some friends coming by for dinner and games tonight. Should be a fun evening. Won't be too late though; as tomorrow up early to get out for a run. Only 4 1/2 more months till the Marathon. Yikes! :)
Last night at Curling at the RCCC in New West one of our fellow curlers got up and made an announcement on our behalf. Thank you Violet!! Last night alone we managed to collect another $326 towards our goal. We have just hit the $5000+ mark. Yay! And we also had many fellow curlers asking if they could bring their pledge forms back to us next week or donate on line. Of course we said yes! We really appreciate everyone's support!! Just under $7000 more to raise before mid July. We curl with a great group of people on Friday nights in a mixed league. Some of you may recall the earlier blog entry at the end of January refrencing my broken wrist....ah yes.. But that will only keep me away for the remainder of this season (2 weeks) and next year I'll be back as good as new. And I think that both Mike and I intend to join a men's and women's team respectively as well as keep playing on our Friday Night Mixed League. Last night we also managed to find that there are a couple of gamers in our midst at Curling too and have recruited more people to attend our Gaming Fundraiser in May. Stay tuned for more details on the Golf Fundraiser in May in Chilliwack. A couple of Golfers in the midst said they would like to attend that one too!
Next....Just returned my new shoes for a different pair. My first ones just weren't working for me. The helpful staff at the Coquitlam Running Room have set me up with another pair and I'll give these a try. Wish me luck that these are the ones that will be staying! And helping me work towards my goal. It's amazing how important a good pair of running shoes are to your training. You don't need a lot of equipment to run, but you sure do need a pair of shoes that fit your feet properly and give you the support you need. It's amazing how different we all are and how many different pair of running shoes are out there. Thank goodness for such well trained staff at stores like the running room.
Well that's all for today; I must get back to tidying up the apartment. We have some friends coming by for dinner and games tonight. Should be a fun evening. Won't be too late though; as tomorrow up early to get out for a run. Only 4 1/2 more months till the Marathon. Yikes! :)
Friday, March 17, 2006
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Last night's training was a challenge for me; I was only able to do part of our intervals. Tried to run through it; but listened to my body and I continued to walk while Mike contined to run his intervals (I'm trying to prevent re-injury and be able to go the long haul, even if it means walking the marathon). Hopefully Sunday's run will be a better one.
The donations are starting to trickle in now. In the past 3 days we have received $830 towards our goal. The thermometer is slowly creeping up. We are one quarter of the way to the fundraising finish line. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far!!!
Enjoy a Guiness for us today!
Cheers!
The donations are starting to trickle in now. In the past 3 days we have received $830 towards our goal. The thermometer is slowly creeping up. We are one quarter of the way to the fundraising finish line. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far!!!
Enjoy a Guiness for us today!
Cheers!
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
$how u$ the Money!$!
Fundraising: Yesterday I sent out a mass email to my friends and colleagues at the Firm I work for. I hit up everyone I work with in my office, people I know in other offices as well as contacts in our head office. I also asked those people to pass on the request to their friends and family. Yesterday alone, our request went out to over 124 people in one hour. I got at least 5 favourable responses back right away of people telling me they would definitely donate; as of today I have physically received 4 monetary donations. (3 did theirs on-line) and one gave me a cheque in the office. That's $335 towards our goal in just a few hours. Lots more to go, but I'm hopeful that most of the people who received yesterday's message will be sending me their donations over the next few weeks.
I would like to send out a very special thank you to Richard Rand (buddy and colleague from our Richmond office). Today he very generously donated $250!! He also promised to forward on my email to others. I also received a donation of $15 today from one of my head office contacts. Just goes to show you that it really doesn't matter how much you donate as long as you donate. Every dollar helps and I'm thrilled with every donation we receive.
Mike and I continue on our quest to send out our message and request to everyone one we know. We continue to ask people to keep forwarding our message on to their friends and family and anyone else they can think of. We even had a cheque arrive in the mail for $50 from a client of a client that Mike deals with. This is exactly the kind of thing we are hoping for.
Thank you again everyone for your support and encouragement so far.
Keep checking back. We'll keep you updated on our running progress, our dollars raised....(I even figured out how to update the thermometer on my own today!!)...and important details about our fundraisers.
I would like to send out a very special thank you to Richard Rand (buddy and colleague from our Richmond office). Today he very generously donated $250!! He also promised to forward on my email to others. I also received a donation of $15 today from one of my head office contacts. Just goes to show you that it really doesn't matter how much you donate as long as you donate. Every dollar helps and I'm thrilled with every donation we receive.
Mike and I continue on our quest to send out our message and request to everyone one we know. We continue to ask people to keep forwarding our message on to their friends and family and anyone else they can think of. We even had a cheque arrive in the mail for $50 from a client of a client that Mike deals with. This is exactly the kind of thing we are hoping for.
Thank you again everyone for your support and encouragement so far.
Keep checking back. We'll keep you updated on our running progress, our dollars raised....(I even figured out how to update the thermometer on my own today!!)...and important details about our fundraisers.
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