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Day #27 – Course Preview for Saturday’s Run

Today’s video update is a little different than usual as it includes the course preview for this Saturday’s run. Here are the important details right up front: The run is free and open to the public. Donations and something to share at the aid station are encouraged. The run begins at 8:00 a.m. at Camp [...]

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1 More Mile For Sunshine – 2012 Edition

It’s been 2 years since the 1 More Mile for Sunshine challenge ended. I didn’t make it through day 25 last time, but my friends rallied around me on the 31st to get the missing miles in and I was able to end on a high note and raise enough money for a family to [...]

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What is the 1 More Mile For Sunshine Challenge?

This website details my progress throughout the month for the 1 More Mile for Sunshine Challenge. I will be running at least 500 miles throughout the course of January, with an ever increasing daily allotment of miles that will make the end of the month far more difficult than the beginning. Click through to learn more…

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What is Camp Sunshine?

Camp Sunshine supports children with life threatening illnesses and their families. The camp has the distinction of being the only program in the nation whose mission is to address the impact of a life threatening illness on every member of the immediate family—the ill child, the parents, and the siblings. Since its inception, Camp Sunshine has provided a haven for over 30,000 individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds.

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What is the Just 1 More Mile Challenge?

The official Just 1 More Mile Challenge started out as a small fundraiser. It cost each runner $20 to enter, with 50% of the entry fees going to the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the other 50% going towards the charity of the “winning” runner’s choice. Since Erik Barr actually made it all the way to the end of the competition, the prize pool was doubled by the race organizer so that the full amount went to both charities.

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About this Site

This website details my progress throughout the month for the 1 More Mile for Sunshine Challenge. My goal is to raise money for Camp Sunshine by running at least 500 miles throughout the month of January. Starting on January 1st, I’ll be running at least 1 mile, followed by at least 2 miles on the [...]

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Day #31 – Results of 1 More Mile

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Today I made it all the way through the challenge! I’m very tired, so today’s update is going to be short. I’ll have more of a detailed description of today’s run in the next day or so. I don’t know what the donations made at Camp Sunshine today were, but thanks to the online donations [...]

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Day #30 – Only 1 Day Left

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Today’s update will be pretty short. I needed 30 miles today (preferably 30.52) so I decided to go out with each run intending to run 10 miles and then trick myself into running more. That worked great for the first run (12.8 miles) and on the second run had almost convinced myself to just do [...]

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Day #29 – The Extra Mile

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Thanks to today’s donors! They’re really starting to come in now. Today we received donations from Maine Running Company, Sarah Hassey, Nathan Augustine, Joshua Novack and Theresa Withee. Don’t forget to click Donate Now to add your own donation to the list. Today didn’t really go as planned. The original plan was I’d have a [...]

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Day #28 – Definitely Tough Now

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My achilles has definitely gotten better since last week, so even though today it was bugging me it’s still not as bad as it was. Hopefully it doesn’t get that bad again…there’s only 3 days left and I can let it heal properly! I ran twice today, a bit over 13 starting at noon, followed [...]

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Day #26 – Lake Winds

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Today can be easily summed up: WAY COLDER THAN I EXPECTED. Wow. I knew it was windy, and I knew that my thermometer likes to lie to me, but I figured, “Hey, it says 80, that means it’s probably about 50 degrees out, even with the wind it shouldn’t be too bad.” Yeah, famous last [...]

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Day #25 – Setting New PRs

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The original plan for today was to head out to Camp Sunshine and to scout out the course. Waking up to temperatures that were just above freezing and rain didn’t really make me want to drive an extra hour to run, so I decided to run at home and get it all done at once. [...]

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Day #24 – Fixing the Achilles

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This morning, I got my achilles taped by Julia Kirtland before the first half of my run at Bradbury Mountain. I’ve never done anything like that before (normally I just stop running and rest) so I had no idea how well it would work. For the first 3½ miles, my achilles felt fine and didn’t [...]

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Day #23 – Routes for Day 31

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Today I took a trip out to Camp Sunshine where I got driven around the local roads near there to show off some possible routes for next week’s final run. The first half of today’s mileage was split into 3 different parts. The first was investigating the option of getting onto a nearby trail system [...]

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Day #22 – Back Cove and Blisters

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Today was a good day company wise. Nathan joined me for the first 75 minutes, and as we got back to the cars Christine and Bob were just starting their run so they waited for me to refill my water bottle and then ran a few miles with me until I had to turn back [...]

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  • Track My Progress

    2012 Supporters
    Post-Week #1
    $25 Richard Day
    $50 Anne Kennedy
    $31 Brett Leland
    $20 J Andrew Holbrook
    Day #31
    $10 Linda Davis
    $50 Maureen Sproul
    $20 Zak Wieluns
    $25 Martin Donlon
    $20 Gregory Lull
    $50 Mitchell Wilson
    $31 Ray Charbonneau
    Day #30
    $250 David & Carol Fuller
    $100 Kathy Gardner
    $31 Mary Costigan
    $50 Mark Grandonico
    $10 Margaritt McNulty
    $50 Jay P Wilson
    $40 Roger Morse
    $25 Olga Frenkel
    $20 Jeremy Bonnett
    $31 Linda Douglass
    $50 Dina Jellison
    $25 James Farr
    $62 Brenda Murphy
    Day #29
    $200 Maine Running Company
    $50 Sarah Hassey
    $31 Nathan Augustine
    $31 Joshua Novack
    $31 Theresa Withee
    Day #28
    $50 Don Penta
    $50 Emilio Millan
    $100 David & Theresa Cornell
    $30 Eric Mauricette
    $26.20 Michael Brooks
    $25 Julia Kirtland
    $100 John Tomac
    Day #27
    $50 Jill Weybrant
    $50 Annie Leister
    $35 Laura Tyrrell
    Day #25
    $50 Kate Hanscom
    Day #24
    $50 Christine & Peter Racine
    $20 Denise Goode
    Day #22
    $21 Kartika Wright
    $50 Kristin Barry
    $30 David Gureasko-Moore
    Day #21
    $20 Eileen Hamilton
    $20 Michael Power
    $50 Randa Koczera
    $50 Chandra Guyot
    Day #12
    $250 John S. Rhodes
    Day #3
    $25 Robert E Economy