Easter Seals 24 Hour Relay

The Easter Seals 24 Hour Relay is an annual community based fundraising event that challenges groups of people to run or walk Relay-style for 24 hours. Teams of runners and/or walkers made up of Corporate and Recreational groups collect individual pledges or organize team fundraising events to raise funds towards their collective team totals.

In 2008 Club Fat Ass member, Glenn Pace, set our to run 100 miles during the 24 hour relay and raise funds for less fortunate children.

Here the link to his fundraising page: http://www.24hourrelay.com/sites/default.aspx?TeamID=1462&RunnerID=22445

Here is how it panned out: http://www.clubfatass.com/blog/mudrunner/easter-seals-24-hour-relay-outc...

Jesper Olsen's Cross Canada Run

Background

Jesper Olsen is a 33 year old man from Copenhagen, Denmark. On 1 January 2004, he set off from Greenwich, England in an attempt to be the first documented person to run around the world. His website is at: http://www.worldrun.org/. (Be sure to read his daily reports!)

After running for 16 months, Jesper arrived in Canada on Friday 15 April 2005. Some local ultramarathon runners hosted him for a few days as he paused to compete in the Vancouver Sun Run and take one of 14 scheduled days off during his 2 year world run attempt. At an informal pot luck dinner, Jesper learned what it meant to "sing for your supper" and shared his inspiring story.

In brief, Jesper tries to run an average of 50-kilomteres every day. He wants to make it home to Copenhagen for Christmas. He plans to end the North American leg of his trip in New York. He has budgeted roughly 90 days to cross Canada by the most direct way possible. While he has become quite accustomed to running alone, sleeping in ditches and eating cold spaghetti from a can, he confided in us that he'd sure love some company, the occasional home-cooked meal and a clean, dry bed from time to time.

He obtained the commitment from all present that they would do whatever they could to make his cross-Canada leg memorable. Some photos from the evening are at: www.flickr.com/photos/37954136@N00/sets/240084/

Objective of this Website

A growing number of people across Canada have offered to help Jesper. Their questions are almost always, "When will he be in my neighborhood?" and "How can I contact him". The objective of this website is to answer those questions. We also hope that it will serve to document his trip for others who may one day try to run across Canada.

Every week between now and the time Jesper crosses the border back into the United States, I will update this route to reflect his progress and estimated arrival times. I will also aim to include the names of the people who helped along the way, so that this website becomes a virtual scrapbook of Jesper's trans-Canada leg that he can refer to once he's back home. If you have any photos of you or your friends with Jesper or any stories you'd like to share about your time with him, please send them to me and I'll post them on the photo gallery.

Sibylle Tinsel

North Vancouver, British Columbia

PS: I strongly encourage you to bookmark this website URL and share it with anyone you feel might be interested in helping Jesper

Contacting Jesper

We are hoping that people with a bit of time on their hands will step forward to "adopt" Jesper for a day or two as he crosses their part of Canada. He would really appreciate any information about his planned route, running events and other activates he might participate in and, most importantly, people to run with.

Kevin Thomson of Vancouver has stepped forward to help Jesper organize his run while in Canada. Please contact Kevin directly to coordinate with Jesper: Kevin Thomson - 604-816-1731 - kevin@creativecrossings.com

Thanks to the following people for help with planning, running, hosting, feeding and moral support during the Canadian section of the run:

• Peter Rietveld (pacer), John Little, Sarah Galazin (pacers), Karl Jensen (Crew), John Payne (crew), Kevin Thomson (Logistics), the Vancouver Hash House Harriers, Sue & Henry (Kwokwehala Lodge), Wayne Richardson