One Run, One Cause, Every Day

The Cause: Tweetsgiving is a celebration of gratitude and giving created by Epic Change, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The project aims to demonstrate the power of the social web by raising $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. (From tweetsgiving.org).

Epic Change believes that people's stories are assets that can be used as resources to improve their lives. We help people in need share their "epic" true stories in innovative, creative and profitable ways to help th… Continue

The Cause: Homeless Nation is a non-profit endeavor founded by Daniel Cross, a documentary filmmaker whose films deal with social justice and Canada's homeless. In the making of his films "The Street" and "S.P.I.T. - Squeegee Punks In Traffic", hundreds of Montreal's homeless community shared their many, amazing stories with him. So many, that he was not able to fit them all into his films.
He conceived of a forum where these stories would not be lost. Where Canada's homeless community co… Continue

The Cause:
As an all-volunteer no-kill shelter with many physical limitations since Gustav, Animal Rescue New Orleans is doing everything they can to maintain their safe haven for abused, neglected, abandoned and stray animals. With little funding, and no paid staff, it seems it would be extremely difficult to run an operation completely with volunteers. But they do it, day in and day out, seven days a week, 12 hours a day. Many of the people that volunteer there on a daily (and nightly) basis a… Continue

The Cause:
Second Harvest, founded in 1971, leads a network of more than 300 neighborhood food banks and meal centers throughout Eastern Washington and North Idaho. Second Harvest provides more than 1 million pounds of donated food each month to help feed hungry people. (From 2-harvest.org).
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The Run:

The Garmin tells me I ran 1.62 miles tonight and I'll take it. It feels good to be running again and the hills here will hopefully help me although I am n… Continue

It's been about 75 days since my first running streak ended.

My goal with that streak was simply to run at least one mile every day for one full year, from May 20, 2007 to May 20, 2008.

I accomplished that goal, and then just kept going for around another 100 days or so before I missed a day and decided to take some time off.

Blogging about the streak was actually more challenging, and looking back I think it was due to a few factors:

#1 - I wasn't really sure anyone cared to read each day a… Continue