tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64092613766600139742023-11-15T23:27:56.830-08:00GO NATI GOmy trips and tales...Natihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10762762964088475839noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6409261376660013974.post-22221820993166736432014-02-12T17:30:00.000-08:002014-02-18T22:33:40.421-08:00I'm RUNNING in the LA MARATHON!<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">On March 9th, I'll be going and going and going from Dodger Stadium to Santa Monica on foot! Why?? Well...................</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Late last year, my aunt sent me an email asking if I wanted to participate in a charity 5K benefiting a cause that my family holds near and dear to our hearts. Of course I'm game for a 5K so I clicked on the link to register and saw that this run would be the opening act for a marathon...not just any marathon, but the LA MARATHON! I didn't give 26.2 miles a second thought so I clicked further and saw that there would be a marathon RELAY option...13.1 miles each sounded challenging but doable! So I started to think of what loved one would be willing to do this with me. The Answer: My sister-in-law, Annie Godoy, of course! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">So here we are...about a month before the race. While we're attempting to prepare ourselves physically, we're also attempting to fulfill our fundraising obligation...We've set our fundraising goal at $5K, the initial distance I was willing to run...Please read below and consider supporting us! Your generosity is extremely appreciated!!</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In 2008, my dad, </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>SAL GODOY</b></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>,</b></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> was one of them. He passed away awaiting a </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">transplant after a seven-year battle with <a href="http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/nash/" target="_blank">NASH</a>, an end-stage non-alcoholic liver </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">disease.
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<span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In his memory, my sister-in-law and I will be running the
</span></span><b><a href="http://www.lamarathon.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">ASICS LOS ANGELES MARATHON</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">RELAY</span></a></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">as part of the </span><a href="http://www.onelegacy.org/site/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><b>ONE LEGACY FOUNDATION</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><b>TEAM</b></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">. We will each run 13.1 miles to honor my </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">dad’s legacy and to support the foundation’s mission to save and heal lives by inspiring </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">and advancing donation and transplantation through research, public education, and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">honoring donors whose legacies live on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;"><b>GIVE</b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">the gift of life!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A single organ donor has the power to save 8 lives and a single tissue donor has the chance to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">enhance up to 50 lives. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to </span><a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2010-05-19-editorial19_ST_N.htm?csp=34" target="_blank">USA Today</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, as of 2010, CA had one of the lowest organ donation registration rates. Let's change that! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It is our personal goal to ensure that everyone we know is registered to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">be a donor. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Register at: <a href="http://donatelife.net/register-now" target="_blank">http://donatelife.net/register-now</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>I wish more than anything that my family could be sharing our organ donation success story but I firmly believe that our success story lies in spreading our message and encouraging others to consider giving the one gift we all can give: ourselves! Again, thank you in advance for your support! <3</b></span></span></div>
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