My upcoming triathlon

If you're a regular reader, you'll know I've been offline for a few weeks, this was for good reasons. We visited Ireland for a big family reunion and had a wonderful time.

I'm finally back on East Coast Time, but still missing all of my family in Ireland (including my darling grand-daughter) and the wonders of beautiful Kilkee in County Clare in Ireland. I promise to post a few pictures in the next fortnight or so.

In the last two years I've raised funds for Dr. Denise Faustman's research into a cure for type 1 diabetes. This year, the Bike the Miles folks don't have an event as they their fund-raising goal. So I've been preparing to take part in a triathlon and use that as a fund-raising opportunity. For me, that's a big challenge, even if this isn't an Ironman-type triathlon.

So on Saturday September 6th I'll be taking part in the Hyannis Sprint 2 Triathlon on Cape Cod. The triathlon has a quarter-mile swim, 10 mile bike ride and 3.5 mile run. If you're going to be there, I'd love to say hello.

I'd like to challenge you to sponsor my triathlon so I can raise more funds for Dr. Faustman's research. In previous years I started fund-raising in the spring, so I know it'll be a stretch to get more than $3,600. But that's my goal for this year: $100 for each year I've had type 1 diabetes.

I'll do the sweating and you just have to write a check of any size. (If you're a US taxpayer the amount is a charitable donation.)

Your check should be made out to Massachusetts General Hospital with Dr. Faustman Type 1 research in the memo field.

You can either send it to me at my P.O. Box
    Bernard Farrell
    P.O Box 937
    Westford, MA 01886

Or you can send it directly to the hospital at
    The Massachusetts General Hospital-East
    Attn: Lynne Murphy
    Building 149, 13th Street, Room 3602
    Charlestown, MA 02129

If you're doing this to sponsor my triathlon, please send me an email (bernard.farrell@gmail.com) letting me know how much you sent to Mass. General so I can track the level of sponsorship I get.

As always I'm grateful for any support I get in this effort and I do plan to have a page acknowledging all the support I get (let me know if you don't want your name on this page).

Labels: faustman, health, triathlon

posted by Bernard @ 8:12 PM