- Per month, send your $10 donation to the Dallas L. Pace Special Needs Trust (mail your check to Jan Brown, 61 Brown Road, Ithaca, NY 14850)
- Keep track of your daily walking, running or biking mileage from the 1st of the month through the end of the month
- Send periodic updates and your final mothly total to Jan Brown (jmb@cbord.com) (final totals need to be in by the 2nd of the following month)
- Automatically be entered into a drawing for one $25 prize at the
end of the month (only participants who submit mileage totals are
eligible)
When you sign up, Jan will send you an
email with an Excel spreadsheet to track your mileage, and you will be
assigned a Participant Number. We will be tracking the mileage
here on the web site by Participant Number. We'll also want to
know if you are hoofing it or pedaling (or both).
What if I don't have a pedometer or really can't do too much walking?
Everyone is welcome. This challenge isn't a competition between
particpants - we're here to support Dallas and we just hope you have
some fun doing it. So no matter how many or how few miles you can
go, if you want to participate, please do. If you don't have a
pedometer, try walking a route that you can measure using your car's
trip meter. Or just make a reasonable estimate. If your
health or other factors prevent you from walking, go ahead and
claim a mile a week. If you can get out there, have fun!
Teams:
We've already gotten questions like "can we particpate as a
group?" - and we decided the answer is "sure". If you want to
particpate as a 'team', please identify one person in your group to be
the main contact - that person will be responsible for contacting Jan
and letting her know how many people are in your group. Each team
member is expected to donate - the main contact would be responsible
for getting the donations to Jan. (Note regarding the prize
drawing - only the 'team name' will go into the hat at the end of the
month. If a team name is pulled for a prize, they get to decide
how to distribute it amongst themselves.)
What if I walk/run AND ride?
Whether you are an individual participant or participating as a team,
we would like you to submit 'foot' miles separately from 'bike' miles.
We might be able to have a little mapping fun with that later on.
(If you end up submitting 'combined' mileage, please let us know
when you submit it.)
The Destination:
A quick check of the internet pulled up
seven U.S. cities/towns named "Dallas". If you started in Ithaca,
NY, could you walk/ride to Dallas in a month - and if so, which one?
Just how far will you get? How far will we get as a group?
(For the 'detail-oriented': a thorough search a little
latter found 15 cities/towns - with Alabama actually
having two - and Dallas, IA is actually Melcher-Dallas)
Distances from Ithaca to places named "Dallas" and
the approximate miles/day average needed to get there in 31 days: