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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
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June
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- Running up and close in Russia
- Quick "HI" from Moscow
- Amazing run through Prague, and the media frenzy (...
- Team Silver at our apartment in Prague
- Goofing off at a late night shift in Czech
- Velmi hezky clanek v Cestine a fotky z Prahy (very...
- About David in Prague
- Team SILVER drying clothes in Germany - quite funny
- Emmanuel talking in Kiswahili in UK
- THE MESSAGE
- Splendid picture from London
- The Fabulous Five - Team Silver
- LIVE video from a run in UK!
- Running out of London!
- Video just before 3am run in Ireland
- New pictures
- Sleep deprivation... the real challenge
- Running through New England
- Video po mem prvnim behu (video after my first run...
- Video just before my first BPR run
- I ran my first 10 mile leg!
- The BPR is on!!! My first run at 6am on Saturday!
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June
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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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4 comments:
David, it is so nice to see you and hear you. I can imagine the smell of the morning in the UK... wonderful. I love that smell. I hope you have been meeting yourself on this trip too, in addition to the many people you will encounter. On such wonderful morning it is just you and the planet... listen to both. hugs.
Hi David,
I hope the BPR is going well for you! It is so wonderful that you are participating in such an amazing event. Keep up the great work and good luck! I hope your experience is all you imagined it would be and more :)
Hello Karolina!
Thank you for your comment. Actually, there has not been that much time to reflect and think on my own. We're constantly on the move. It seems that running is the only time I have to think. It should calm down after Poland, so we'll see. I'll be thinking of you as I run through your home land.
Take care!
-David
Hi Lauren!
I appreciate your words of encouragement. It indeed is a great adventure and mission.
Hope your summer is going well, and greetings from Hamburg (Germany).
-David
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