Austin's Athletic Altruists

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While we’re on the topic of running, we came across this rather astounding – and uplifting – fundraising event happening at Town Lake this Sunday (courtesy Freescale Marathon's site):

Beginning at 5am, Austinites Dr. Alan Brock and Jay Hilscher will be running for sixteen straight hours around Town Lake in order to raise funds for Hurricane Katrina victims. 5am? 16 hours of running?? Both are figures that our vice-addled brains simply cannot comprehend. We salute you, Messrs Brock and Hilscher!

You can do your part by coming out to the rowing dock (north side of Town Lake, next to Austin High) on Sunday morning and pledging $5, $10 - hell, maybe $25 - either per hour or per mile that this truly-dynamic duo complete. FYI, the guys plan to run about 50 miles. (That's burning roughly 5,000 calories, which also happens to be equivalent to the amount of alcohol we plan to consume when we head to Dallas this weekend for back-to-back concerts by Interpol and Phosphorescent. Also, we'd like to remind you how we manhandled Carlos D at Coachella earlier this year. But that's neither here nor there.)

Austinist highly encourages you to come out this weekend and show your support for our selfless neighbors. And if you can't afford a financial donation, at least come out and cheer like hell for these guys.

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By Allen Y Chen in Other on September 9, 2005 11:00 AM 0 Comments

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edward

I'm all for raising awareness, etc., but I always think it's very sad that some people have to essentially be bribed with entertainment (watching people run themselves to death, seeing Kid Rock on tv, etc.) to give. A lot of time and effort goes into organizing these type of things ("benefit" concerts, bike rides, runs, etc.) that could possibly be better spent by people directly volunteering or giving money.

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