SMH Half Marathon 08
Cure Cancer Newsetter - SMH Half Marathon May 08
Glance at the photos of the start of the Sydney Morning Herald Half Marathon May 2008 and you will see 34 bright orange balloons dotting the skyline!!! Yes they were indeed the balloons worn by our 17 mentors and coaches to bring our courageous Can Too Team home. People were talking all through the race about the Orange Team – the Can Too team, the team raising money for Cure Cancer Australia!!! We were the talk of the town and so we should have been!!!
We had the largest Can Too team ever in the Sydney Morning Herald Half Marathon – 124 fluoro singlets began and ended at Hyde Park to the cheer of Can Too loyalists lining the entire course!!! The constant cheers of Go Can Too motivated, inspired and supported us at every kilometre.
We have raised enough to fund more than two researchers with this program, bringing our Can Too total to 21 researchers and a sensational $1.6 million since 2005. Thanks to the support of the Macquarie Group, all funds raised go to find a CURE. What a fantastic day!!!
If you are interested in training with Can Too please check out our website www.cantoo.org.au or call Annie on 0423 411 858. Come train with us for the Blackmores Sydney Running Festival.
We can’t rest on our laurels though and training has already begun for the marathon program for the Blackmores Sydney Running Festival and Sunday Telegraph Bridge Run.
With Blackmores we began our 10th Can Too Training Program – what an amazing thought. We stand to have 400 people jogging, running, puffing, sweating in their orange fluoros on September 21, 2008 and raise our two millionth dollar midway during the program!!! We will have trained 1500 people and raised $2.5 million by year end!!!!
Can Too will now be training in six different locations throughout Sydney on any given Wednesday or Saturday – north, west, northern beaches, east, Macquarie Uni - and our daytime north program on a Tuesday or Friday morning. The winds will be full of Can Too in flight.
The excitement still grows as we plan to launch Can Too Melbourne in October this year. Yes we are starting our national campaign!!!
Can Too on Tour is the latest Can Too development – showing the power of Can Too Camaraderie. At least 50 current and ex-Can Tooers will head north for the Gold Coast Half and Marathon – all off their own bat - proud to don the fluoro orange!!! Can Too will go on Tour again in October for the Melbourne Marathon, Half and 10k. There is no chance of post-Olympic blues if you join the Orange of Can Too.
Remember you Can Too achieve a goal you never thought possible and have fun fitness, friends and fundraising in your life!!!
Regards,
Annie Crawford
Can Too Director