The 3rd Annual “Walk the Talk - Shelter the People” walk is being held in Hawaii from Wednesday, November 7th through Friday, November 16th. The walk is 10 days and 130 miles.
According to the organizers, more than 3,500 people are living on the streets and beaches of Hawaii. 35% of these are children. November is National Homeless Awareness Month. The 10 day walk occurs over the island of Oahu and helps to raise both funds and awareness of the homelessness issue in Hawaii.
The walk has 92 walkers pledged on the walk with $14,847 also pledged in donations. The walk began at the State Capital of Hawaii. The walk also ends on Day 10 at the State Capital.
Source: walkthetalkhawaii.org
Anastasia Sowinski ran her first marathon when her mother was diagnosed with leukemia in early 2002. Sowinski, a Brookfield, Illinois resident joined the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program. Sowinski raised five thousand dollars and on the first anniversary of her mother’s death, ran her second marathon.
Sowinski has also ran three other marathons since her Team in Training days. So she has five marathons completed out of her goal of fifty, one for each U.S.A. state. She has run marathons in Alaska, Chicago (Illinois), Miami (Florida), Cincinnati (Ohio and Bloomington (Indiana).
She is preparing to run the Marine Corps Marathon on Sunday, October 28th in Arlington, Virginia. On December 1st she will run the Memphis Marathon in Memphis, Tennessee. Sowinski’s goal is to run three to four marathons each year.
For the Marine Corps Marathon Sowinski is raising funds for A Running Start, a charity that helps African children obtain a U.S.A. university education and to use their athletic abilities.
Source: WBBM Newsradio 780
Tim Borland is running multiple marathons during a 63-city A-T CureTour. Boreland began running on Monday, September 3rd in California at Disneyland. He will complete his marathons with the New York City Marathon in New York, NY on Tuesday, November 4th. Boreland hopes to raise $2 million dollars for the A-T Children’s Project.
In every city Borland visits, he stops at the home of a child with A-T. A-T is ataxia-telangiectasia, a rare genetic disease in children. A-T causes severe muscle control due to brain cell death.
“Everybody thinks it’s crazy,” Borland said. “And it is. I would definitely never undertake something like this … for fun or to try to prove something. It’s all about bringing hope to families all around the country.”
About one in every 40,000 children in the U.S.A. is born with A-T. Approximately 500 children in this country have the disease. There is no cure, or ability to delay the progression of the disease.
Source: dailypress.com
Dr. Alan Brock, founder of the Austin, Texas based non-profit Fit2Endure completed an amazing 40-day, 896-mile run this past summer. He did this to raise funds and bring awareness to the national child obesity epidemic.
His trek began in Austin, TX on July 11th. He ran across the state of Texas going northwest through Abilene, Lubbock, Amarillo and many small towns in between. A short leg through the Oklahoma panhandle and he was into Colorado. As if running across the 2nd largest state in the union wasn’t enough, he ended his amazing journey by completing the Pike’s Peak Marathon in Denver on August 19.
All along the way Brock was followed by a support crew, was cheered on by spectators and even found time for some TV interviews and a daily blog.
Alan Brock is not a man to stop either! Now he’s getting ready for a 100 mile trail run in Bandera, Tx in November. You can read more about his 896 run and his current training on his Summit40 Blog.
