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BlogHave a look at the recent entries of our blog:05-06-08 | 04:45 pmAlways something exciting. Yesterday I was on a flight to Dallas for work. Just after take-off a man stood up and passed out. He fell straight to the floor. Everyone seemed to be in a panic and then the flight attendants called for any doctors on board. I hesitated to ensure someone more qualified stepped forward, but after a minute I realized I must be it. Since I was a rescue swimmer in the Navy 10 years ago I was trained in first aid and cpr. I checked his vitals and they patched us through to a doctor on the ground. The man was fine, most likely dehydration or some other type of illness...again I am not a doctor. All I know was his vitals were fine and his heart was normal. I did not really do much but the crew gave me a good samaritan award of 4000 miles. So that was cool. :-) 05-01-08 | 04:41 pmThe Big Sur Marathon was outstanding. They really did a great job putting it all together. I completed the race, not the time I was looking for at 4:35 but I started cramping at the mid-point and slowed my pace to avoid injury. All and all it was a great experience and a good goal to accomplish. You can see me at the start of the race on various websites. Now it is time for some serious heavy load hikes to prepare for Mt. Raineir at the end of this month. 04-24-08 | 10:54 amFirst ArticleI got a call from the Monterey Herald yesterday. They got my story from the Big Sur Marathon coordinators since I will be running that race this Sunday. They put the story on the front page of the newspaper today, so that is pretty exciting. Here is the link to the article: "Monterey Herald Article"""" 04-12-08 | 08:11 pmSo check this out. Yesterday I went for a quick 9 mile run before church. It so happens that there was a race going on in my town. So I am just running with the people and passing everyone on this 1 mile stretch (I was already 4 miles into my run). There was a place on the road where the race continues on a back road to North Bend, but that is where I was turning to take a different route to a park with a .75 mile track where I do a couple laps then head back to round off 9 miles. Well I guess the racers thought I was in the lead and followed me the wrong way. I didn�t realize it since I was pretty far ahead of them and when I was on the track I noticed a line of racers heading down the wrong way looking a bit confused. Oops....my bad. Still pretty funny if you think about it. 04-02-08 | 01:59 pmJust a quick update since I have not wrote for almost a month. This has been a busy month in training for the Big Sur marathon in a few weeks. I had some running shirts printed so I will be wearing my Sponsor7Summits shirt during the race. Hopefully I will have a decent finishing time but I am not making any promises. My signature move is to perform a cartwheel at the finish of my races. However I have never completed a marathon before so we will see what type of energy I have at the end. 03-17-08 | 02:15 pmAdam and I rappelling up on Mt. Si a few years back.
03-15-08 | 01:08 pmI posted Sponsor7summits under the NY Times classifieds to run for 3 months. Hopefully that will get the attention of some potential buyers. I will also submit our story to some local Seattle newspapers. 03-12-08 | 01:06 pmWe have reached out to some potential sponsors as well as Alpine Ascents. We have not heard back from some but Alpine Ascents agreed to link our site to theirs. We plan to use them on our Rainier summit attempt in May and if all goes well we will partner for the 7 summits. 03-05-08 | 01:04 pmWith the Big Sur marathon only a month away I have really increased my running. I am trying to do a 9 mile plus a couple 6 mile runs a week. I just hiked Tiger Mt with a full pack and my new double plastic boots this morning. My body is certainly recovering from the long distance runs but I am feeling great. 02-26-08 | 03:46 pmAs we prepare for the summits we are trying to do weighted hikes up local mountains like Mt. Si in North Bend. We also snowboard, rock climb, mt. bike and rappel. I have a hard time staying motivated indoors so even if it is raining or snowing I would rather train outdoors. 02-20-08 | 03:43 pmIt looks like Adam will need to reschedule his Rainier summit for another date since he will be taking his family on the Disney cruise. I am going to stick to my date unless we can get one that works for both of us. We are less concerned for Rainier since it is a training summit and not a part of the 7 summits. Still, it would be nice to accomplish it together. 02-07-08 | 03:41 pmI signed up for the Big Sur marathon in April as well as the Alcatraz swim and race across the Golden Gate bridge in August. I figure that will help motivate me to get in better shape. 01-26-08 | 05:42 pmAs you can see from our front page we are now targeting $100,000 per family and charity for a total of $1.4 million. It may seem ambitious but we are aiming high. We both grew up in poor families and now have an opportunity to majorly change a few lives. 01-24-08 | 11:55 pmOur goal as it stands now is to hike Mt. Rainier this year then Denali next year. That will be a good summit to help prepare us for Everest. We would like to do Everest in 2010, but it will depend on money and our work schedules. 01-22-08 | 11:53 pmWe are signed up to hike Mt. Rainier in May with Alpine Ascents. It is a 3 day hike to the summit at 14k feet. We have been doing a couple local hikes with full packs to start getting into shape. We live on opposite ends of the Puget Sound so a lot of our training is solo, but we try to get together every other week. 01-21-08 | 12:36 amAfter a week and some free classified advertising we have seen over 100 unique visitors. However so far the sales are low. We hope to gain more media hype and web traffic in the next few weeks. 01-17-08 | 12:20 amA lot of people have asked how much we plan to give back. Without knowing how much we will make it is difficult to determine at this point. Once we start bringing in more money we will announce the total we plan to give back. Right now we plan to give a significant amount that will drastically change their lives. 01-15-08 | 09:53 amThe first thing you do when you launch a new idea is tell all of your friends and family. With that said we got our first customer, Good Home Stitchin! 01-14-08 | 06:37 pmSite LaunchedToday we launched Sponsor7summits.com to help raise money for our goal of reaching the 7 summits. We plan to give back a large portion of the money raised to needy families and organizations.
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