Filed under: Fundraising
CrazyKegs, my first fundraiser for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, is taking place on Saturday, April 26 at 9 pm. It’s at my friends’ house and it should be a great evening. Admission is $10 and that includes beer and food. Regardless of the number of people we get, it will just be nice to see my friends again. I have a handful coming in to town for Crazylegs.
Three cheers for beers!
I’ve been hitting the proverbial wall this week. Things are starting to pick up in class and work just as my Tri training is nearing its apex in difficulty. When everything comes to a head like this I tend to go numb and I get into this really weird head space. Hopefully the fog will lift by the end of the week and things will be back to normal. Otherwise April is going to be a very long month.
Anyway, I survived the team run on Saturday. Not only did I survive, I almost enjoyed myself. The arboretum is in the top 5 for prettiest places in Madison and the lakes are finally beginning to melt. I saw birds in the water! Birds! I got to run without a jacket and I made a pretty sweet playlist for my iPod. It definitely made the whole thing go a lot faster.
We also had our Nutrition Clinic over the weekend. We talked about high Glycemic Index foods vs. Low Glycemic Index foods. There was a great chart and a nice list of GI numbers and stuff but I keep forgetting to bring it out of the car so the material has yet to help me.
Tomorrow is re-commitment day which means I need to have $1,000 fundraised. I have $571 on the site which is almost entirely from my friends which is great. My folks haven’t donated yet and neither has my brother. They are going to pool their donations together and let my brother match through his work since they do 3 to 1 matches. So $500 turns into $1500 over night. Once that goes through I’ll have $2,000 before my fundraisers.
This weekend is my first outdoor group ride. Here is our route for those of you who are interested. We’re starting out in Deforest so I’m trying to convince my dad to join us so I don’t have to drive out there by myself. Plus he likes riding his bike and I think he’d enjoy himself.
Those are all the updates for the week thus far. Thanks for all of the kind words, contributions and moral support.
Filed under: Fundraising
This can only be described as surprising. So far in my Triathlon journey, the harder part of the battle has been fundraising as opposed to training. Not necessarily hard, but more difficult to get started.
LLS had a deal that if you got 100 fundraising letters addressed to go out by February 7, they would pay for postage. It’s a great deal and can save you 40 bucks of your own money. Too bad I got busy doing everything but fundraising. Luckily myfolks are willing to contribute to my cause in this regard. I’m using their printer and writing letter to their friends so while the $41 dollars would have been nice, I can make the money back. This is for a good cause.
I also e-mailed some of my contacts using the e-mail generator on my personal funding web site. I e-mailed the professional staff I used to work with at Vandy but it didn’t field any donations. I’m hoping my reminder e-mail will be better received. Bad blood or not it’s for charity.
And I’m moving forward with my fundraiser at my parents’ house. I’m thinking the first weekend in March. I’ll probably need to mail invites for that too. Debate: Do I send fundraising letters to people I’m inviting to the event? Or should one be in place of the other?
This is serious business. I’d rather just go swimming and deal with one thing at time. I know once I put the feelers out there, the donations will come in. It’s just a matter of putting my mouth where the money is.
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