For those of you who didn’t have frequent flyer miles and were looking for another way to help, well, there IS another way for you to help the Fisher House foundation!!

A National Guardsman in Iraq is training for the Chicago Marathon and you can sponsor him. All the money raised will go to the Fisher House! Yay!!

Well, not me exactly. I was out on the Fisher House website the other day getting the link for my post on the Doonesbury Book. I noticed that they have a Marine Corps Marathon support team, where soldiers/sailors/airmen/marines that are running the MCM can raise money to support the Fisher House. I thought to myself, wow, what a great idea, too bad the Chicago Marathon (catch up on my training here) and MCM are on the same day. Not so fast my friend. They have another program where basically you can support any race you feel like running. So, a few short minutes later and I had everything set up for Team Sack.

This program is particularly good, because unlike other race sponsorships, where if you collect a certain amount they will pay your race entrance fee, travel/hotel, etc, the Fisher House team will get every dime of any money that you pledge. Also, they have very little overhead, according to their website 97 cents on the dollar go directly to help the families of wounded soldiers. These guys have a great reputation in the military community and are truly supporting a needed service.

I would like to raise a $1,000 over the next 18 weeks. Please consider a gift to this worthwhile organization. Since I’m running 26.2 miles (I hope!) you could consider a dollar a mile and donate 25 bucks and I’ll do the last 1.2 miles for free. This would only require 40 people to contribute.

I’m going to cross post this at my personal site and I know between my readers and the ones here, there has GOT to be 40 people willing to cough up $25 for this! Go to this webpage and sponsor him!!

Thanks!!

And a very big thank you to Kasee267 for letting us know about it.