Gwen's ramble on November 6th, 2005
Hi Everyone!!!
Wow, yesterday was an intense day to run. The rain was definitely a consistent factor, and I was glad we’d run our 20 miler the weekend before. Rick and I decided to tack on the Madison Park hill at the end of our run, and while my gluts felt the burn, I was glad to practice it. One of the things I like about the Madison Park run is that we pass each other, or end up stop for water at the same places, and have an opportunity for encouragement. It’s so inspiring to hear something as simple as, “Great job!” For the marathon, I plan to put my name on a bib and pin it on my shirt. I did this for a previous marathon, and hearing people cheers for me was very important during the hard parts of the course.
Some announcements:
Brave hearts of the week: We started training with a small group and an “Asha” (hope) for education in hearts. The small group has grown as many committed people joined in this effort. However, some of the people who shared our commitment to the cause had to, unfortunately, leave in the middle of the training program due to medical injuries. We appreciate the motivation of Priya Winebrenner and Kathleen Malaspina who were the brave hearts to join in Miles for Smiles but had to drop out due to injuries. We wish good luck and speedy recovery to them.
Funds raised so far:
So far we have raised $7995.55 ($3965.55 from online donations, $432 from our various booths and $3600 from Individual donors for our training). This is a huge increase from last week—over twice what we had! Think about how much we can raise if we double our efforts! I sent out another round of emails, and asked my father to present my email and the Asha miles4smiles program at the local Rotary (the Rotarians are very supportive of educational programs in places like India, South America, and Africa). I’m trying to think of other ways to fundraise, so if anyone has any ideas, we should definitely share.
Projects Sponsored:
Given our good performance with fund raising, we are planning to extend support to MUSKAAN (http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=267) back into the list of projects. A description for both the projects (Muskaan and SUPPORT) can be found at http://www.ashanet.org/seattle/events/marathon/cause.php
We will encourage you to go through the details of these projects.
Further, the budget for SUPPORT and MUSKAN are online now and available on the CAUSE page. In case, you have more questions about the projects, please feel free to email Malti (maltir@hotmail.com) for SUPPORT and Ravi (ravi@u.washington.edu) for MUSKAN.
Updates on the website:
Profiles are online for every runner except Darren Massey and Mike Cohen. Make sure to check out your picture on your profile page, and let us know if you want to get the picture changed. Also, check out Rohan’s runner journal on miles4smiles runner’s discussion page.
Pictures Link: You can find the pictures of the kids for both the SUPPORT and MUSKAAN projects under this section.
New to the family:
A warm welcome to Jone Chung and Brian Carver from the miles4smiles team! Both the huskies are traveling the road less traveled – Jone has been training all by himself and Brian has vowed to do a half without trainingJ.
See you all next Saturday at Super Jock N’ Jill!
-- Gwen
Wow, yesterday was an intense day to run. The rain was definitely a consistent factor, and I was glad we’d run our 20 miler the weekend before. Rick and I decided to tack on the Madison Park hill at the end of our run, and while my gluts felt the burn, I was glad to practice it. One of the things I like about the Madison Park run is that we pass each other, or end up stop for water at the same places, and have an opportunity for encouragement. It’s so inspiring to hear something as simple as, “Great job!” For the marathon, I plan to put my name on a bib and pin it on my shirt. I did this for a previous marathon, and hearing people cheers for me was very important during the hard parts of the course.
Some announcements:
Brave hearts of the week: We started training with a small group and an “Asha” (hope) for education in hearts. The small group has grown as many committed people joined in this effort. However, some of the people who shared our commitment to the cause had to, unfortunately, leave in the middle of the training program due to medical injuries. We appreciate the motivation of Priya Winebrenner and Kathleen Malaspina who were the brave hearts to join in Miles for Smiles but had to drop out due to injuries. We wish good luck and speedy recovery to them.
Funds raised so far:
So far we have raised $7995.55 ($3965.55 from online donations, $432 from our various booths and $3600 from Individual donors for our training). This is a huge increase from last week—over twice what we had! Think about how much we can raise if we double our efforts! I sent out another round of emails, and asked my father to present my email and the Asha miles4smiles program at the local Rotary (the Rotarians are very supportive of educational programs in places like India, South America, and Africa). I’m trying to think of other ways to fundraise, so if anyone has any ideas, we should definitely share.
Projects Sponsored:
Given our good performance with fund raising, we are planning to extend support to MUSKAAN (http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=267) back into the list of projects. A description for both the projects (Muskaan and SUPPORT) can be found at http://www.ashanet.org/seattle/events/marathon/cause.php
We will encourage you to go through the details of these projects.
Further, the budget for SUPPORT and MUSKAN are online now and available on the CAUSE page. In case, you have more questions about the projects, please feel free to email Malti (maltir@hotmail.com) for SUPPORT and Ravi (ravi@u.washington.edu) for MUSKAN.
Updates on the website:
Profiles are online for every runner except Darren Massey and Mike Cohen. Make sure to check out your picture on your profile page, and let us know if you want to get the picture changed. Also, check out Rohan’s runner journal on miles4smiles runner’s discussion page.
Pictures Link: You can find the pictures of the kids for both the SUPPORT and MUSKAAN projects under this section.
New to the family:
A warm welcome to Jone Chung and Brian Carver from the miles4smiles team! Both the huskies are traveling the road less traveled – Jone has been training all by himself and Brian has vowed to do a half without trainingJ.
See you all next Saturday at Super Jock N’ Jill!
-- Gwen
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