Donate $5, Win a Free Plane Ticket

The following is a note from my close friend, Matt Powers. He's running the Boston Marathon to cure cancer. He won't be curing it personally, but he knows a guy. Anyway, every $5 you give this guy gets you one chance closer to winning a free plane ticket, which he will treat you to. I'll let him explain:


So I'm planning on running the Boston Marathon. "Running" might be the wrong word actually, it will probably be closer to interchangeably jogging like an old man and power walking like an old lady, with plentiful water breaks dispersed throughout. But one way or another I'll get from one point to another 26.2 miles away, hopefully within the span of 24 hours. And so, I am inviting all of you kind people to join in watching my uphill battle against both my own body and whatever slight westerly breeze might happen by.

Now you might ask how such an unlikely scamp managed to qualify for a marathon. Well good question but I didn't. I'm not that fast. I'm not even a very good walker. The answer is that I am running in honor of a charity, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and The Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research to be precise.

So this is where you kind people come in. Because I am running for this charity, I am humbly asking all you to support them and their research. Yes, I am asking you to donate money to this charity, but No, I am not leaving you empty handed. You see, if you donate $5 in my name, you will not only get to lounge around smirking with pride that you've contributed to curing cancer, you will also get the chance to win a round trip plane ticket to anywhere in the U.S., courtesy of yours truly. You heard me. I am going to buy one of you at random a plane ticket. For every $5 you get free smirks for a week and one name in the proverbial hat for the ticket.

Anyways, please help me (and anybody unlucky enough to have cancer) out by visiting http://www.runDFMC.org/matthewp2009 and making a donation. Even if you don't know me or if you do and you don't like me, chances are you like cancer even less, and free plane tickets even more. So please help out and if you're around Boston on April 20th come watch me dehydrate myself.