Susan Schneider
Mary Fran Doyle and Art Flannagan
Brownie Trainer
Greg Natchwey
The battle of the century. Mechie. Ana. OYE. Who will raise the most money? Who will win the race? Watch while these two titans battle it out in the heat of San Pedro Sula, pounding the steaming pavement mile after mile in the name of youth empowerment in Honduras. You're not gonna want to miss it!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Thank you to all the RACE 4 OYE Supporters!
| Ana's Donors |
| Jan Lendewig |
| Dan Corbett |
| Patrick Ahern |
| Paul Cannings |
| Robert Trainer |
| Cailin Ahern |
| Jeff Weston |
| Gordon Veneklasen |
| Penny Peterson |
| Emelisa Callejas-Romero |
| Eric L Olson |
| Carol Burke |
| Nancy Holland |
| Laurence Birdsey |
| Ben Woodcock |
| Maria Otero |
| Nancy Kerndt |
| Val and Ralph Fine |
| Kareem Aly |
| Laura Kleger |
| Catherine Audage |
| Shin Fujiyama |
| Judith Rand |
| Eduardo Perez |
| Julie Nachtwey |
| Sarah Ahern |
| Julia Kerrigan |
| Mary Clay Thomas |
| Mechie's Donors |
| Patrick Ahern |
| Christina Reynolds |
| Sara Kapta |
| Sonya Rice |
| Melanie Fisk |
| Trent Bobbitt |
| Saralyn McIver |
| Robert Trainer |
| Judy Feng |
| Amelia Sinclair |
| Carrie Wilson |
| Elizabeth Bernstein |
| Ben Woodcock |
| Christie Schofield |
| Cailin Ahern |
| Beth Parkman |
| Casandra Brown |
| Dante Lombardi |
| Kim MacKenzie |
| Mark Keleher |
| Maria Otero |
| Nancy Geshke |
| Kathy Goodwin |
| Andrew Hughes |
| Ralph Fine |
| Lesley Hoyles |
| Beli Acharya |
| Mercedes Falk |
| Chelsea Friauf-Evans |
| Nicole Bush |
| Judith Rand |
| Sarah Ahern |
| Phyllis Johnson |
| Stacy Lopez |
| Michael's Donors |
| Bill Wood |
| Katherine Burdine |
| Patrick Ahern |
| Thomas Tanury |
| Eloise Salmon |
| David Silva |
| Mark Solis |
| Michelle Douenias |
| Aiala Levy |
| Trina Vargo |
| David Rosenthal |
| Alexandra Connell |
| Eve Glazer |
| Zarah Rahman |
| Sachin Desai |
| Joanne Robinett |
| Angela Lytle |
| Matthew Solis |
| Leah Solis |
| Jacquelyn Hehir |
| Tatum Lenahan |
| Alexander Smorczewski |
| Dane Erickson |
| Lauren Marino |
| Charles Yeager |
Monday, June 27, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
WE DID IT!
Thanks to Michael Solis, Iloany Ochoa, Sandra Hadith Alvarado, J Edoardo Umanzor, Coty Mayo, Riley Leonard, Faby Oro, and Jackie Krizovensky for racing and cheering for Team OYE! We'll post more pictures and updates tomorrow, for now, we're going to get some much needed rest!
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Race Day is Tomorrow!
Dear OYE Family,
Thank you all SO much for all of your support and encouragement as we prepare for the big day tomorrow. Several OYE becados and friends of OYE will also be racing tomorrow and coming to show their support for TEAM OYE. Michael Solis, Iloany Ochoa, Sandra Hadith Alvarado, and several others will join us at the starting line at 7 am tomorrow to run in the name of youth in Honduras. We are getting ready, hydrating and carbo loading, and now it's just up to our legs to take us across that finish line. In my mind, we've already crossed it. We've received 78 donations totaling $4,236 an incredible outpouring of support for OYE's incredible youth. To me, that is what matters most. It doesn't matter who crosses the finish line first or who raises more money or has more supporters. We are all in this together, running for young people running their own lives, their own futures, and their own countries. Your generous donations will fund programs giving young people the opportunity to create change around them. Thank you for believing in OYE's youth and for showing that their contributions to the world matter. If you haven't made your donation yet and are planning to, you can donate on the "Chipin" boxes located on the sidebars.
Thank you again and we will fill you in on how the race goes tomorrow!
Love,
Ana Luisa
Thank you all SO much for all of your support and encouragement as we prepare for the big day tomorrow. Several OYE becados and friends of OYE will also be racing tomorrow and coming to show their support for TEAM OYE. Michael Solis, Iloany Ochoa, Sandra Hadith Alvarado, and several others will join us at the starting line at 7 am tomorrow to run in the name of youth in Honduras. We are getting ready, hydrating and carbo loading, and now it's just up to our legs to take us across that finish line. In my mind, we've already crossed it. We've received 78 donations totaling $4,236 an incredible outpouring of support for OYE's incredible youth. To me, that is what matters most. It doesn't matter who crosses the finish line first or who raises more money or has more supporters. We are all in this together, running for young people running their own lives, their own futures, and their own countries. Your generous donations will fund programs giving young people the opportunity to create change around them. Thank you for believing in OYE's youth and for showing that their contributions to the world matter. If you haven't made your donation yet and are planning to, you can donate on the "Chipin" boxes located on the sidebars.
Thank you again and we will fill you in on how the race goes tomorrow!
Love,
Ana Luisa
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Last Long Run and a BUSY week!
It's been a busy few weeks here in Honduras- with OYE's 6 year anniversary party in early June, followed by the annual COPA OYE soccer tournament, followed by family and friends visiting from the States- but we've somehow managed to keep up our training. On Monday we completed our last long run- a 2 hour run (ok, run/walk) through the local palm plantations and along the beach near Villa Sofia, where we live. We were out the door at 6am to avoid the heat and loved being out so early. It was a beautiful, peaceful run. Ana spotted two crested caracara eagles and I narrowly missed stepping on a river turtle!
For the rest of the week we'll be doing short runs and getting a lot of rest- though with 4 kids in the house this week that is proving a bit difficult! So far this week we have rescued a baby howler monkey from poachers, taught 3 kids to snorkel in the pool and then took them to the Cayos Cochinos where they saw a sting ray and lots of reef fish, been to the pool about 5.2 times daily, got about 3.2 hours of sleep each night, and have eaten LOTS of hot dogs! We are loving having visitors here though and it's definitely helping keep our mind off of the race.
We're heading to Progreso Saturday where Team OYE is busy making race t-shirts for our supporters. Hopefully we'll have a lot of OYE friends who come out to cheer us on. If you're in San Pedro Sula on Sunday- we'd love to see you somewhere on the race route!
3 more days til RACE DAY! (yikes!)
For the rest of the week we'll be doing short runs and getting a lot of rest- though with 4 kids in the house this week that is proving a bit difficult! So far this week we have rescued a baby howler monkey from poachers, taught 3 kids to snorkel in the pool and then took them to the Cayos Cochinos where they saw a sting ray and lots of reef fish, been to the pool about 5.2 times daily, got about 3.2 hours of sleep each night, and have eaten LOTS of hot dogs! We are loving having visitors here though and it's definitely helping keep our mind off of the race.
We're heading to Progreso Saturday where Team OYE is busy making race t-shirts for our supporters. Hopefully we'll have a lot of OYE friends who come out to cheer us on. If you're in San Pedro Sula on Sunday- we'd love to see you somewhere on the race route!
3 more days til RACE DAY! (yikes!)
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Update and Thank You!
Just a quick note to update you on our progress: we've really upped our training in the past couple of weeks and are starting to realize how unprepared we are going to be on race day! ;) The heat is really intense and will be our biggest challenge. Luckily, we've had some fun people to train with lately, including Cailin Ahern and her partner Tom. Cailin is a loyal and dedicated friend and advisor to OYE and has helped us revamp our fundraising strategy this year. We went on a great run last night after a wonderful and active weekend in El Progreso to celebrate the inauguration of COPA OYE, OYE's annual soccer tournament. Ana, Tom, and Michael played in the opening game... and are still sore. Michael scored his first goal ever, Tom made some incredible saves, and Ana finally scored a goal during COPA OYE (and has a few scars to prove it)! You can see a few pictures from the weekend posted below.
We would like to thank ALL of you for the incredible support you've shown us in the last few weeks. Thanks to your generous contributions we are getting closer and closer to our fundraising goal. We are also very grateful for the words of encouragement and support you've sent us and are definitely going to need them at kilometer 21!
We would like to thank ALL of you for the incredible support you've shown us in the last few weeks. Thanks to your generous contributions we are getting closer and closer to our fundraising goal. We are also very grateful for the words of encouragement and support you've sent us and are definitely going to need them at kilometer 21!
Michael on game day.
Ana scoring her first COPA OYE goal.
The opening ceremony of COPA OYE.
A pre-game baleada "run" with Tom and Cailin
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
It's Official!
It's official folks. We're registered to run the San Pedro Sula Half Marathon on June 26th, 2011 at 7:00 am. The official distance is 21.5 km around the city of San Pedro Sula. The race is sponsored by the local newspaper La Prensa and its sports section, Diez. There's no turning back now, we're in it to win it! So help us reach our fundraising goals by donating and sponsoring our run to support the youth of OYE Honduras. Thanks to everyone for all of your support and wish us luck!
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