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Okay, buddies... I need some input. There's an all-night walk for suicide awareness and prevention in June in NYC http://www.theovernight.orgBasically the concept is that you raise $1000 and walk all night (from sunset to sunrise) for 18 miles. It looks absolutely awesome and for a multitude of reasons this speaks to me (I'm sure most of you have an idea why at this point). But it's raising $1000 - when I suck at fundraising and walking 18 miles (which I'm really not sure I can do - even in June after months of training.) I actually signed up to do this like 5 years ago and couldn't raise enough so I just gave up. Now that I'm almost TWO YEARS away from the darkness I was living in, I really want do this but I don't want to sign up to flake out again. I also really am not sure if I want to do this alone - and with the distance/fundraising minimum I'm not sure I can get anyone else to join me. So I don't know, I'm really tempted. I feel like it might be the next reasonable step with where I am on my journey but... man, can I do this? Seriously, the most I walk at once is 5-6 miles tops. 18 is a LOT. Part of my brain is screaming "You're insane to even consider this" but this little idea has been tickling the back of my brain for months now and I have to think that it's not going away for a reason. That this is some kind of destiny that the walk is in NYC again THIS year (I live in NJ so I could easily have some kind of cheering section.) Is it even possible for me to be in shape enough to do this come June?
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I think you could do it physically for sure. You'd have to really train for it, but I think you can if you're dedicated. The money is harder. It would be very dependent upon the people you can reach. 10 people @ $100... You can do it! Attach some kind of moving personal story. I will donate to you if you do decide to do it. It sounds like a really good experience!
14 févr. 11 par le membre: k8yk
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Thanks, Kate. They do have golf carts or whatever that pick people up so I don't actually have to walk the full thing (although I'd really like to be able to do at the very least 12 miles of it.) I guess I'm more worried about how to raise the money. Most of my friends are unemployed/broke right now. Although part of me thinks that if I contacted the student paper and various alumni organizations (I go to Rutgers) I might get some help raising the money that way (Tyler Clementi is still fresh on everyone's mind after he jumped off the GWB in the fall.) *shrug* Need to think some more about it.
14 févr. 11 par le membre: suechru
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Okay, that's it. I'm doing it! I'm starting a Rutgers team because I need to be the change I want to see in the world
15 févr. 11 par le membre: suechru
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That's the spirit! And it gives you something to focus on, which you've said you need to function well :)
15 févr. 11 par le membre: k8yk
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Yay! Use all of your internet connections to raise the money, too. Shill it around here, Facebook, whatever other social sites you use. You can do it! :)
15 févr. 11 par le membre: jessie1326
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Thanks, I finally had the guts to get on the scale this morning and I gained 8lbs since the start of the year. Not happy about that, I need an excuse to go exercise because I got so huge being unemployed in the first place.
15 févr. 11 par le membre: suechru
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