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STOP Girl Trafficking
20,000 GIRLS ARE TRAFFICKED IN NEPAL EVERY YEAR: SOLD OR LURED INTO SLAVERY. A girl just like your daughter at age 10, just like you or your sister at age 12, just like your girlfriend or wife at age 11, just like your mom at age 8. Our goal: $10,000 to save 100 girls from bondage. Not 10. Not 20. But 100 girls. For one year. On May 29th, my friend Denise Sauriol and I will run the Everest Marathon. Yes. Everest. It’s quite the journey we’ve decided to embark on. Quite the ego trip as well. There’s no denying it. The thing is, it wouldn’t feel right to make…
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Altitude training
Well, that was interesting. First let me explain what you’re looking at. This is no random room with a bunch of treadmills. Rather, it’s the altitude room at Chicago’s Well-Fit training center in the city’s West Town neighborhood. What’s that you ask? One of only a handful like it in the United States, the room is essentially a chamber, where they suck the oxygen out in an attempt to simulate what it’s like to train at different levels of elevation. The room is filled with treadmills and bikes, and is used for people like me, who live at sea level, but are training for an event that takes place high…
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The Everest Marathon
So of course the first question I’m sure you’re asking, is ‘Wait, there is a marathon at Mount Everest?’ A close second “Who the heck is crazy enough to do this?” That’s exactly what I thought the first time I read about it. It was a year ago February. I was sitting in my office, with no story assignment, waiting for new software training. Poking around on my computer on Sports Tours International, who I would traveling with to the Tour de France that Summer, I came upon a tab that read “Adventure Marathons.” Of course I clicked through. Within half a second I knew this was something I had…
