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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"
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- What would be the human thing to do?
- Quick check-in from Lake Placid
- It's finally here!!! -leaving for BPR in the morning!
- Blue Planet Run route visually - courtesy of my cr...
- New Shoes Are In - all 3 pairs!
- Spider Man OUT; Water IN!
- "If we can't win this one, I don't know what we ca...
- Taking care of business
- A little about the logistics
- Charter bus story - enjoy :-)
- Vitam vsechny Ceske pratele!
- Excited to be on Western!
- "We are looking for David Christof, because we wan...
- Welcome clip
- Greetings, Wellsians!
- Thank you for all your support
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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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6 comments:
Your blog is very interesting.
Please, send me the photos of your pc tables.
We'll publish them all!
ciccidi@gmail.com
I adore this story about you David, it's such a classic! Thanks for sharing
Thank you Victoria. Yes, there were quite a few humorous moments in David's coming to America.
Mili Davidku, at budes on-line, cinkni mi na skype. Mam te ulozeneho v kontaktech jiz dlouho, nicmene az ted jsem zjistla, ze mam ulozeneho uplne jineho Davida Christofa. Tam ten predesly nebyl stejne nikdy on-line. Najdes me na skypu pod mym jmenem a prijmenim nebo e-mail adresou jitka@iol.cz. Jezisi, ja shledla tvoje videonahravky, ses to porady ty, akorat ty brdo, roky nejak letijou!.... A ses blazen, ze des behat kolem sveta! Ale do Brna se na tebe prijedu podivat! Posilam pusu!!!! Jitka Soustalova
Ahoj Jitko!
Diky za vzkaz; prvni v Cestine :-) Uz se tesim jak se nekde na Morave setkame. -David
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