you'll all be glad to know that max power is to kill himself slowly

**Xlex** · 30/04/2004, 12:50 PM

Well done Max. Nice one.

I'll chuck some cash your way some day.

BTW, don't you have to apply to do the NY marathon. Youjust can't turn up on the day. Officially speaking.

**max power** · 30/04/2004, 1:00 PM

you do have to apply, there is an international lottery in mid may, places are limited to 35,000......there is a USA based lottery in mid june as well.....

through raising money for the ICS the entry is all done, flights, hotel etc.....

**max power** · 10/05/2004, 11:36 AM

just to let antone who is interested know how the training is going, but first just to let you know this is costing me a bloody fortune !! between new gear and washing evey night ( clothes that is ) i'll be broke by the end of may !!!

but i'm doing a steady 40km a week and did my first 10 mile run yesterday, a long way to go yet, but its well worth it as cancer is a disease that hits us all...

so once again i'd ask you to dig deep and i'll let you know when i'm running a night in dublin...

i might also do a bucket collection at flancare in the coming weeks as well....

max

**the 12 th man** · 10/05/2004, 11:40 AM

[QUOTE=max power].

so once again i'd ask you to dig deep and i'll let you know when i'm running a night in dublin...

what have you got in mind on this one max???

**max power** · 10/05/2004, 11:44 AM

eh now that is still in the production phase.......a decent raffle with lots of booze, a head shave, drinking a glass of tobaso sause ( thats pauros one ), i really have to sit down and work out my fund raising stuff......

i'll announce want i'm gonna do over the next few weeks, but i think i'll wait until the peole in need is over so i can have a good run at it.....

**the 12 th man** · 10/05/2004, 11:49 AM

race nights are normally great crack and are normally profitable.you would need the cost of the race company to be sponsored so you dont have to
pay for it.
its put the thinking cap time on

**the 12 th man** · 10/05/2004, 11:52 AM

btw,is it everyone buys a glass of tabasco and pauro drinks em till he combusts ???

**max power** · 10/05/2004, 1:04 PM

i will come up with an idea to do with football......it will take a few days, but the press release will hit here first

**nesovic** · 18/05/2004, 10:45 AM

nice 1 max, know it doesn't compare but im doing the longford marathon for longford hospice! although it's going to be a task and a half for me as i'd never walk anywhere, very true what you say bout everyone being touched by cancer!
nobody realises the work these people put in unless you experience it and all funding is basically donations!
hope to see you wit the buckets in flancare i'll have to bring out my own sponsorship cards some night!

**max power** · 18/05/2004, 10:51 AM

fair play to ya, i'll be there as well....i'm doing a 20 miler that day as a build up to the big NY....

great charity to go for as well, pm me your training, might be able to give each other ideas....

i did my first major road run last night and i almost died, i've steped up my training, i'm doing 5 days and 2 mornings, into a local gaa club at 6am tues & thurs for sprinting and hard physical work out to build myself up....

good luck with it and let me know how the training is going, have you any goal time ???

**liam88** · 18/05/2004, 4:26 PM

Originally Posted by max power

i will come up with an idea to do with football......it will take a few days, but the press release will hit here first

Foot.ie members match?
Sure you could find a way to make money outta it

**liam88** · 18/05/2004, 4:53 PM

Originally Posted by Conor74

As a matter of interest, why? What's the need for a minimum?

cover expenses and make it all worthwhile?

**liam88** · 18/05/2004, 7:26 PM

Originally Posted by Conor74

�3,500?

Cover expenses? What happened the charity?

I'm getting out my running shoes...

Eh? I meant that after the flight to NEw York-hotel etc. to make it all worthwhile Max may need to raise this amount,
Best of luck to him whatever the situation

**tiktok** · 18/05/2004, 8:04 PM

Originally Posted by Conor74

Cover expenses? What happened the charity?

A lot of charities run things this way now, they give people the opportunity to do a once in a lifetime thing e.g. hike in Peru, cycle across europe, jump from an aeroplane etc. The deal is that you raise a given minimum amount in sponsorship to do the event. That money more or less goes straight into their coffers as corporate sponsors and tax-breaks from the government towards charitable organisations cover the costs of the event.

Both the public and the charity win, because you get to do something you would otherwise not have done, and get the buzz that it's for a good cause, the charity gets more people interested in donation than it may otherwise do, and reap the financial benefits of this.

way the by... Max, did you try and contact the matchday mag for the game the weekend, I'm sure one of the guys in there wouldn't mind doing a piece on it.

**max power** · 18/05/2004, 10:58 PM

i'll leave it until the return game later on in the season, i'm gonna have a quiz in dublin with some karaoke...

and in july we are running a christmas party in dublin as well if we can, more details to follow, waiting really for people in need to be over so i can get a clean run at it, i'll run soemthing for one of the night the cork lads are up in longford/dublin

also might have a 5 a side comp in longford wen the cork lads are up, we are having a bucket collection outside flancare too, and all donations are welcome through the bank ac below.....

conor the reason for the 3,500 is that i raise that and they send me to the race and take out all the logistical messing out of it for me......

and one wants any other info pm me or e mail and i'll b glad to pass it on...

**max power** · 19/05/2004, 8:43 AM

some of those are sponsered holidays, but because they are buying in bulk the charities get a good deal and a majority of it goes to them, its a new way of aising finance, with the little money the charities recieve from the gov at the mo, every new way of raising funds is needed....

**tiktok** · 19/05/2004, 9:07 AM

Originally Posted by Conor74

and one person who wouldn't give tuppence to charity himself collecting for a walk along part of the Great Wall of China

exactly the point I was making Conor, the charity end up making a decent bit of cash from someone who would normally not contribute.

**max power** · 19/05/2004, 9:44 AM

yes but in the world we live in the society is changing, people expect something for something i.e i collect loads of money for you, you do somethng nice for me.....a bribe really, but it works, i could do the marathon for no charity and pay for myself to go over, but out of this arrangement we both get something and i almost kill myself in the process

**max power** · 19/05/2004, 10:39 AM

cause i see dublin every day and hate the bloody place, new york is a challenge with a lot of hills etc and i love the city......

i'm doing 23 miles of the dublin marathon as a warm up btw, along with 4 half marathons as well, so its not all about 1 day....

its about tmorrow morning at 6am when i'll be training alone in a gaa pitch and its about no big nights on the beer for the next few months, its about arranging my summer holidays where i can run each day...

its a six month programme and not all about 1 one, i'm running 40km per week and doing two morning interval training sessions, so really your sponsoring me to run 1000km over 6 months.........