Please donate to Kids with Cancer charity

Post-race update:  Thank you all so much for your donations.  WE raised closed to 5700 dollars, some donations and matches are still pending.  I finished in 4:07:15 for those who want to know race times.

I know, I know, as soon as someone wants something from you and is blatantly open about it, it’s quite a turn off, I get that.

When I ask people for donations it’s interesting how much quieter my email and Skype gets (should have asked for donations a long time ago instead of giving away my free time here on this site and there, too).

But here’s the dillio….

The Charity is Mass General Hospital, Kids with Cancer.  Should be pretty obvious who this benefits and what it’s all about right?

If you want to donate (thanks in advance!) there’s information and donation links here

If you’re not comfortable filling out credit card information in order to donate, then you can donate via PayPal, but the money then comes to me, and I have to forward it along to the charity, and you won’t get the tax deduction benefit from it since the donation technically didn’t come from you. Sorry for the hassle, it’s the best I can do here but we need to abide by the rules.

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The website referenced above should have all the proper documentation that charities are supposed to provide, and donations are tax-deductible fyi…

Not to make this about me, but….

Here’s what people want to know from me before they donate:

Dan have you run at all before, are you currently running, have you run any marathons before?

Yes, I run about 40 miles a week now

Yes, I’ve run 2 marathons before, 7,8 years ago. Times were 4:15 first marathon,(ran as a bandit) and 4:45 second marathon (was 85 degrees that day, 2d hottest Boston marathon in history)

In January 2011, as part of my ongoing training I ran the Boston Prep race, a 16 miler up in Derry, New Hampshire, but those people screwed something up with my timing chip, so they only got me clocked at the 5 mile mark, but my family and friends saw me cross the finish line just under 2:40, which averages out to a sub-10-minute mile which was my goal for that race.

***It took me a minute or two to get to the starting line, which is why crossing finish line at 2:40 is really like running the race at 2:38 or so.***

Some pictures from the Derry Race:

 

Drunk looking at the finish line with my son and niece all bundled up, it was a pretty cold day!

 

Recently I ran a 20-mile race in my state, here are some results, look for me at #159

Waiting to buy some pictures from that race to post here

Please leave a comment to stay subscribed to updates on all of this…this will be where I post updates and stuff, and will post my BIB # for the Boston Marathon if you wanna track my slowness during the April 18th date.

Leave a comment to let me know you donated, and again, many thanks to those of you who have already donated.  I know who you are and you will be rewarded one way or another…

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Other miscellaneous information:

Started training in the fall and weighed 229 then, heaviest ever in my life

I’m down to about 193 last I checked, hoping to get down to 185, maybe even 180 come race day.

Last marathon I did 8 years ago, I weighed a paltry 160!

Post-race update:  Thank you all so much for your donations.  WE raised closed to 5700 dollars, some donations and matches are still pending.  I finished in 4:07:15 for those who want to know race times.