My virtual Run Over To Ellen’s is a fundraising run, and we’re raising $30,000 for Guide Dogs for the Blind. We only need 30,000 people to donate $1 (or more) – have you donated your $1 yet? You can click on the green FirstGiving widget in the sidebar or go to www.FirstGiving.com/VisionRunner Do it now and you’ll have access to all the special donors only benefits…and special giveaways! Everyone who donates by the end of this week is in the drawing for a special limited edition Vision Runner -”Dare to Envision a New Reality” pen. Motivation right at your fingertips! So hurry to www.FirstGiving.com/VisionRunner and donate now.
Below I share some thoughts about my first month of running and fundraising.
After the first month of my virtual Run Over To Ellen’s, I’m almost to the “B” pin on the map which is Red Rock, MT and the “C” pin is Lima, MT. We’ve raised $149 dollars so far for Guide Dogs for the Blind, and we’ve been on the local news. Still a long ways to go on all fronts, but I’m up for it…so let’s run!
I’m really loving being able to run again after my triumph over sciatica this winter. And now that the weather is stutteringly wandering towards spring, so much the better!
I’m doing much better, back to better than normal in fact, and I’m sure, if you’ve been following my progress, you know about my new fundraising project, where I’m running 1,222.25 miles from Montana to the Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank California on a virtual Run Over To Ellen’s. In order to accomplish my mileage goal, I’m going to have to average 36 miles a week for the rest of the year.
As far as my fundraising goal, we only need 30,000 people to donate $1.00 each to raise money for Guide Dogs for the Blind. So if you haven’t donated yet, just click on the FirstGiving fundraising box in the right hand sidebar, or go to www.FirstGiving.com/VisionRunner. Once you donate at least $1.00, you’ll have access to our private Donors Only page where all sorts of special secret surprises await…
Having healed nicely, one recent afternoon, as it commonly occurs, my mom met me for a walk as I was finishing up my run. We ended up back at her place, where I said goodbye and then ran the few blocks over to the busy intersection where I would cross to get to my favorite Starbucks on the corner.
The light turned and I ran across the street at a very slow and easy pace. I got onto the short section of sidewalk that would take me over to Starbucks. I’m not sure what I was thinking about … maybe it was how much I was going to enjoy my favorite item on the Starbucks menu, a Grande Americano, or how good it felt to be healed up and not to have tight calf muscles after my run.
I don’t know, but all of a sudden my foot went off the sidewalk and I just knew I was going to fall and I saw it unfolding in slow motion: like time slowed down.
I put my right hand out to brace the fall, but then I did something amazing. My shoulder tucked under and I just went with the fall, rolling all the way back up onto my feet, and not missing a step!
In amazement, I felt for my cell phone and mp3 player and safety flasher lights…yup all still there! I walked into Starbucks still stunned at my highly uncharacteristic acrobatic move.
Thinking that one of the workers at Starbucks must have seen it, and they all know me, I asked. But, nope not one witness to my spectacular feat of athleticism. . .
Oh well, that’s how things roll sometimes…even me!
Here’s the announcement you’ve been patiently waiting for….
Ready or Not….
Here it comes…
How ’bout it?
-Vision Runner
When You Donate $1.00 or more, you get special VIP privileges at our Run Over To Ellen’s website…and we made it easy for you, just click on the donation widget below or in the sidebar, and you’ll receive special access to our VIP area at my Run Over To Ellen’s website where there are daily videos posted with updates and access to other great stuff as well!
P.S. If you have a website, you can go to www.firstgiving.com/visionrunner and grab the fundraising widget (that green box in the side bar and at the bottom of this post) so you can help us promote our fundraising goal!! You can also grab the widget right from the widget on our page. Just click on the purple Menu button and select “Share this widget” The code will be there, and you can just cut and paste it into your site that way!
I'd like to donate a cuppa coffee to Vision Runner, as I understand that all that running and writing requires a great deal of strength and energy and focus......
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I'd like to send Vision Runner $10.00 so that she can get a gift card for her favorite coffee establishment.
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I'm feeling very creative and I don't want to be inhibited by someone else's choices. I'm going to pick my own dollar amount...cause what if I want it to end with 46 cents or something?
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What about me? I need some for me..... (Go ahead. Order some for yourself, why don't ya?)
