Skip a Coffee for Carrie.
See Carrie.
See Carrie Run.
See Carrie Run for Team Diabetes in Reykjavik, Iceland this summer!!!
Carrie Simmons is one of the kindest, coolest, most hard-working and talented women I know. I can’t really express how truly great she is on a blog – but I can tell you straight up (and every one of my J-School cronies would agree) that she really brings the positive energy level up in any room she enters. I can’t even count how many bad moods she’s pulled me out of with her optimistic spirit and perma-smile. She’s always ready with a friendly ear to listen to the rest of the class bitch and complain about assignments or whatever… patience for days, this one – and never asks for anything in return.
But now she needs help.
Carrie is training to run a freaking MARATHON for CHARITY and she’s travelling all the way to ICELAND to do it!
Here’s the lowdown:
When she’s not busy studying, volunteering and working hard on school stuff, she’s a member of Southwestern Ontario’s Team Diabetes – a group that raises money for Diabetes research while at the same time raising awareness and spreading information about this increasingly common disease.
Carrie will be running her very first marathon this summer in the name of her 19-year-old diabetic cousin, Justin.
Help her help Team Diabetes help Canadian research labs in their attempts to find a cure! Just plug her name (Carrie Simmons) into the search box to pledge. It’s so easy, a monkey with a blackberry could do it! In fact – a monkey with a blackberry DID do it. Thanks for donating to Team Diabetes, co-co!
Wow. I bet you feel bad now, folks – shown up by a chimp. *tsk tsk* It’s okay – you still have time to pledge 
Because Carrie is a humble girl, it was only through our mutual friend Savi (another J-Schooler, multi-talented in her own right! <-[warning:clicking here will make you hungry]) That I found out exactly how hard she's working for this run.
"Carrie is too humble to tell you how hard she is training to run 26.2 miles.
By the way, she is going all the way to Reykjavík, Iceland (back to her cultural roots) to run this marathon.
Carrie’s daily routine starts at 5 a.m. for her first workout of the day. She tries to hit the gym again at lunch time and then finishes her day with another fitness session in the evening. She also finds time to do yoga and strength training at various points in the week.
Carrie runs everyday except Saturday when she cross trains, meaning she does “fun” workouts like swimming, rowing or kickboxing.
Right now, she can run a mile in 9 minutes but she hopes to shave off 15 seconds so she can complete the race in 3 hours and 40 minutes. This will give her the chance to qualify for the Boston marathon.
I know I find being in school challenging enough. I am amazed and inspired by Carrie’s dedication to train so hard for this marathon and raise money and awareness for such a great cause.
I’m sure any amount you can afford to donate will help her achieve her fundraising goal of $2,000.
Good luck Carrie!”
Inspiring, to say the least. I find it hard to drag myself out bed at 8:32 after my alarm has been blaring for a solid 20 minutes. I couldn’t even imagine waking up and RUNNING before the sun comes up.
And here’s the kicker – Carrie does this all without the black magic that fuels the majority of us in this country. She doesn’t drink Coffee.
That’s simply nuts to me, and it got me thinking… If every person who read this blog pulled a C-Simmz and gave up ONE coffee ONE day, and donated that $1.52 to Team Diabetes on Carrie’s behalf… well she’d be well beyond her fund raising goal.
So what say you, friends? Do something good and skip a coffee for Carrie today. If you don’t drink coffee, skip a donut – hey, you can combat diabetes in two ways at once! HUZZAH!
Now go join Carrie’s facebook fanpage!
And also, watch this cute Coca-Cola Ad. It made me smile <3 Experiential marketing. So clever.
Hope your day is ggrrrrrrreat!
