March for Babies, Run for Dimes

Happy New Year!

To celebrate the New Year and continue both our pursuit of better health and our support for the March of Dimes, Robbie and I are starting a new endeavor called March for Babies, Run for Dimes.  

March for Babies, Run for Dimes is a take off on the old bike-a-thons we used to do as kids where people would sponsor you so much for every mile you could ride in a given time.  MARCH FOR BABIES, RUN FOR DIMES is similar in that you can sponsor me and/or Robbie for every mile we run between January 1st and April 15th.

Our March for Babies in Rock Hill will be April 30th.  In the past 3 years, Team Campbell has donated over $5,000.  Our goal this year is $1500. Once again, Team Campbell will be walking to support the March of Dimes.  (We will have another post soon about how you can join us in the walk.)  One little change this year is that Robbie and I will be running to celebrate the end of March for Babies, Run for Dimes.  We will also be running in our first 10k in April.  On April 2nd, we will be running the annual Cooper River Bridge Run.  I chose April 15th as our end date because it's halfway between the two races and so that we will have time to get the totals and everything submitted to the March of Dimes in time.

To train for these races, we will have to run regularly.  Through this plan you can support us by both keeping us accountable for running and raise money for the March of Dimes.  You simply choose an amount of dimes per mile that you would like to donate.  For example, if you choose to commit to donate 1 dime per mile for me and I run 100 miles between 1/1 and 4/15, you would donate $10.  Or you could choose to support both me and Robbie for 5 dimes per mile.  Say I run 150 miles and Robbie runs 160 miles.  You would then donate $155 (150 x .50 + 160 x .50 =  155).  Our training program estimates we will run about 150 miles but we will cap the miles at 200 for each of us so that when you make your pledge, you know what your max may be. 

We will check in each week on the blog so you can keep track and will have tickers on the right of the screen.  We will also post each run on Facebook so you can follow us there.  

So, please consider making a New Year's resolution to support us and the March of Dimes.  Just leave a comment and tell us if you want to support me and/or Robbie and how many dimes per mile you would like to pledge.  Thank you so much for your support!

I have to give credit to my friend, Rhonda, who is a fellow new runner and preemie mom.  We both had very similar ideas and she created the title and logo.