First video - me talking about the Blue Planet Run (bad sound - better clips are on their way...)
Official site: WWW.BLUEPLANETRUN.ORG
WHAT IF I WAS TO TELL YOU THAT 20 JUMBO JETS FULL OF CHILDREN WILL CRASH TODAY, & TOMORROW, & ON & ON...?
Would you be concerned?
THAT IS WHY WE RUN.
- Some 6,000 children die every day from disease associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene – equivalent to 20 jumbo jets crashing every day.
- Water-related illnesses are the leading cause of human sickness and death
- In the past 10 years, diarrhea has killed more children than all the people lost to armed conflict since World War II.
- 1.1 billion people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water, roughly one-sixth of the world’s population.
- PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING: $30 provides safe drinking water for 1 person for a life time! TO DONATE, just follow this link.
David
About Me
- David
- Whittier, California, United States
- One of the 20 runners on the Blue Planete Run global team, running around the world June 1-September 4, 2007, raising awareness and funding for access to safe drinking water, which 1.1 billion people don't have. I was born in beautiful Prague in the Czech Republic, where I lived until I was 18. I originally came to the U.S. for one year... and now it's been over eleven years. I currently work at Whittier College in Whittier, California. One of the wisdoms I try to follow in my life is: "Do not speak of what you cannot praise."
BPR route (major stops and dates):
New York City (USA)6/1;
Boston 6/3 ;
Dublin (Ireland) 6/5;
Oxford (U.K.) 6/6;
London 6/7;
Paris (France) 6/9;
Antwerp (Belgium) 6/10;
Rotterdam (Holland) 6/11;
Amsterdam 6/12;
Hamburg (Germany) 6/14;
Berlin 6/15;
Dresden 6/17;
Prague (Czech Republic) 6/17;
Wien (Austria) 6/18;
Brno (Czech Republic) 6/19;
Krakow (Poland) 6/20;
Warszawa 6/21;
Minsk (Belarus) 6/24;
Moscow (Russia) 6/27;
Omsk 7/7;
Novosibirsk 7/10;
Ulaan Baatar (Mongolia) 7/22;
Beijing (China) 7/27;
Hiroshima (Japan) 7/28;
Tokyo 8/1;
San Francisco (USA) 8/1;
Los Angeles 8/5;
Las Vegas 8/7;
Denver 8/14;
Topeka 8/17;
St. Louis 8/20;
Chicago 8/22;
Lansing 8/24;
Toronto (Canada) 8/27;
Niagara Falls 8/28;
Washington, DC (USA) 8/31;
Philadelphia 9/1;
New York City 9/4
We're running around this beauty...
What could these children be doing instead of fetching water?
Running PRs:
- 5k: 18:00
- 10k: 37:35
- Half Marathon: 1:23
- Marathon: 3:10
Past Marathons:
- Death Valley Marathon - 12/2008
- Tacumsah Trail - 12/2006
- Flying Pig - 5/2006
- Columbus - 10/2005
- Grandma's - 6/2005
- Columbus - 10/2004
- Bayshore - 5/2001
- Prague - 5/1999
- Columbus - 11/1998
- Bayshore - 5/1998
Other BPRunners' blogs:
David showing the Czech Republic on his "Worldly Tie"
Blog Archive
PAIN IS INEVITABLE, SUFFERING IS OPTIONAL.... "The thought of covering 26.2 miles on foot is as frightening as it is fascinating"
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1.1 billion people thirst; 1/6th of the world thirst for safe drinking water. I am only one. I cannot do everything, but I will do something. I will run. I have a purpose. Let's run. Let's run around the Blue Planet. Let's run for water. Impossible is nothing.
~ We run to bring hope, we run to bring water: www.blueplanetrun.org
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