GET READY! Matt & Steph start their journey on May 4!
Hello Run for One Planet Community!
We are now just days away from our official send-off for our year-long run around North America, and wanted to reach out to you all one last time before our departure, with a few parting words.
IN SUM:
Building the Run for One Planet has been a very long, hard and joyful journey. What started as a pipedream, 18 months, thousands of hours, hundreds of people and a ton of sweat later, has transformed into our all-consuming reality. We are so grateful to share this process with every single one of you – thank you for helping to take our dream to reality. Because of our collective effort, we’ve already received national media coverage from all media sources (TV, radio, print, internet); thousands of viewers have come to our site; thousands of dollars have been donated to help seed OUR FOUNDATION; we’ve spoken in front of hundreds of people at events; inspired hundreds of people to take one new action for Earth through our ACTION CHALLENGE and so much more.
OUR FIRST EVENT:
Leaving May 4 with the BMO Bank of Montreal Vancouver Marathon, we will attend our first public event on tour at Planet Organic Market on Sunday, May 4th at 3:00pm at 2755 Lougheed Highway. We would love for every one of you to come out, and share in the beginning of our collective dream of inspiring a continent to take action for the health of our planet.
TAKE THE CHALLENGE:
As we set out, we especially wanted to reach out to OUR community to ask for help in spreading the word to YOUR community to take action for earth through our tour. Through our Action Challenge, our tour goal is to inspire 1 million North Americans to commit to 1 new environmentally friendly habit, to bring about 1 million new actions for Earth. It’s so easy – just CLICK HERE. While you’re at it, please dare 3 of your closest friends to do the same. Even if you have already taken the challenge, go for it again and dare 3 new friends – or a whole group of friends! Friends through friends is how we’ll inspire 1 million people.
THE LEGACY:
We never set out on this odyssey for it to be a one-off, year-long run that would end with our return to Vancouver. The run in itself will be life changing, hopefully for more people than just us. But this is just the beginning. We hope for this to be the start of a whole new way for North Americans to save the planet – by running for it! Through the 2008/2009 North America tour, our goal is to raise $1 million to be the seed money to launch subsequent Run for One Planet Green Marathons to serve as a LEGACY OF ACTION in some of the cities we originally ran through. Our ‘08/’09 tour will be the prototype by which all succeeding green marathons will be fashioned, to galvanize people to get fit and healthy for themselves and stimulate them to pick up the pace to take action for our planet.
Thank you very much from the bottom of our hearts. It’s because of you, and your desire to also make the world a better place, that we are departing so incredibly supported. Get ready to come along on the 11,000-mile journey of your life…
Love,
Matt + Steph
Good luck to you both. I’ll be there watching the start tomorrow (Sunday) morning. Best wishes.
Comment by Fraser — Saturday, May 3, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
If any two people can do this , i know you two can.
BEST OF LUCK !
Love ya, Carla
Comment by Carla — Sunday, May 4, 2008 @ 9:05 am