In August, 2003 I ran the Iceland Marathon as a member of Team Diabetes.

I raised $5000 and got to pound my way through 42k around Reykjavik. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Since then I’ve continuously received email updates from Team Diabetes and have been tempted to do runs in Brazil, or Rome, but the schedules never worked with the time off I can take from work.

I firmly believe in the Team Diabetes cause, education can prevent us from getting hit by it in our adulthood, and many children have no choice having to live with daily insulin shots. Being a new father, I am all over preventing diseases that Zacharie could face.

So I will be running two Team Diabetes events in the next year. In January I will be leading the 95Crave Team Diabetes Crew to Disney World and in June I will be running with Team Diabetes on Easter Island.

My fund raising commitments total $10 000. I'm doing freelance work and donating all the funds to the Team D cause, I thought shooting for half with your help would be worthy here on DreamBank.

As a side benefit to donating here, you'll be supporting Kiva, an organization that loans money to entrepreneurs in third world countries. It's not a gift, a loan they must repay. It helps them start a business, and then the money gets re-loaned to a different entrepreneur. It's ultimate in paying it forward.

So click the button, and join Team Diabetes!

Category: Health/Fitness

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