An Introduction

Dear Internet,

I figured we should get acquainted before things get too ... personal.  I'm a 20something lawyer/consultant who just recently got back into running.  I signed up for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training program to train for the NYC half marathon, and make me feel better about my soul-crushing job by raising money for a good cause.

I was really nervous about meeting the $1,600 fundraising minimum.  I thought of this site idea imagining it would be two weeks before the race and i was still hundreds of dollars short.  I was pretty blown away when I raised the whole thing in about two weeks.

For those of you who don't know me, I'm not one to rest on my laurels.  I'm way too type-A for that.  I want to raise the shit outta some funds.  I want to raise ALL the funds.  So I'm gonna do this anyways.  Here's how this is gonna work:

• I set a price point and a deadline for a specific activity and adjust my donation goal (see the widget in the top right corner of your screen?) accordingly.
• You (the internet) give me all of your money.  Seriously, all of it.  Just click the widget (it's still there in the top right corner of your screen) and give it to me.
• If we reach the donation goal by the deadline, I am honor bound to perform and document the activity, and post pictures and video on this site as a punishment/reward.
• If we don't - you love cancer.  What is wrong with you?  We'll move on to the next activity - and the donation amount will carry over.  For example - if I set a goal for $200, but only make $150 by the deadline, that $150 will carry over to the next activity.  If it's a $200 activity, you only have $50 more to go!  But seriously, this is never going to happen, right?  Because you hate cancer?  Or want to humiliate me?  Right?

Since I'm a douchebag lawyer, I'm gonna reserve the right to amend these rules if they aren't fun enough, or if I come up with a better system.  I promise I will only do this to encourage more terrible things happening to me, and not to wimp out of something I signed up to do.

I've got a preliminary list of activities planned out, but am always open to suggestions.  Leave a comment if you've got a suggestion.  I won't do something that's gonna get me fired, and probably won't do something that might get me arrested, but I can be flexible on that.  I want them to be running or race related though, so be creative!

Activities/deadlines will probably be posted on a weekly basis, but we'll see how things go and play it by ear.

Enough of the boring shit, let's get to the humiliation.  Please, give till it hurts.