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AFC is featured in the March newsletter for Mid-Atlantic Monthly!! Check it out at http://www.imakenews.com/usatma/.

-Pattt

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Adam and I will be getting our VO2 Max tested on April 9th at Total Performance Inc. It will be an interesting experiement to see how much improvement we can see in our VO2 Max from that time until we are tested again when we return sometime in September. I have an Ironman in November and I will test one more time just before that race, which will be 2 months of anerobic training, to see what my VO2 Max is at that point!

Stay tuned for updates on test results!

-Pattt

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We are now selling AFC bumper stickers!! Sooooo cool!! Of course all the profits for the stickers will be going to ADA and Kupenda!

-Pattt

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Leonard(pictured at desk) is the coordinator of Kupenda in Africa. He is working full time for Kupenda. He has done amazing things for Kupenda and continues to do great work.

Leonard's quotes from his email are talking about the boarding facility where the money we raise is going too.

"A renovation of the Boarding Facility would take 2 to 3 months. It will be the grate homour to Adam and Patric to officially open the facility when its ready. What Adam and Patric are doing for Kupenda is highly appreciated and we will keep praying for their big event. Biking accross Africa its a brilliant idea and I do support it."

"Known children who will benefit from the Boarding facility are 30 in number both hearing impared and Cerebral Palsied. But we time and expansion of the facility more children will be admited just as is hapenning at Gede. In fact Marafa is likely to grow to a full Special School in a few years to come."

Adam

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It is official! There will be a soccer tournament at SoccerDome II on April 22nd to help AFC reach its goals and raise money and awareness for ADA and Kupenda! If you like soccer and would like to join team AFC we are still looking for members. We need 4 girls, 6 guys, and 1 goalie to make a team. We will be playing against lots of other teams including my old team FullOut! 1/2 the proceeds from the event will go to our causes!

For more information on how to join our team or register your own team please email me at pblair12@gmail.com

Adam

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Thanks to the efforts of our amazing friend Shelley Sullivan we may be hosting a soccer tournament at the SoccerDome to help raise funds for Kupenda. We are hoping to meet with the owner of SoccerDome this weekend to work out all the specifics.

If this happens we will register a team: AdventuresForTheCure. So we need players!! It will be a co-ed tournament so everyone is invited. If you are interested in playing on team AFC please email me at mailto:pblair12@gmail.com.

We are looking to raise $20,000.00 for Kupenda because that is the cost of a new boarding facility for the children to go to who currently cannot go to school because they have no way to travel the long distance to get there. Of course we will also be raising money for ADA to help fight the battle against Diabetes!!

This soccer tournament and every other even we put on are fun ways to raise money for a good cause!! So come out, join our team, have fun, and change the lives of these childre... all at the same time :)

-Pattt

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Last week while meeting Dean Karnazes we met some really incredible people. One was Dane Rauschenberg, he is running 52 marathons in 2006. That is one marathon every weekend. His website is http://www.fiddy2.org/ . Dane is a guy just like us, someone that works all week then on the weekend he flies to his marathon for the weekend and flies back for work. Incredible.

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Adam and I got the chance to meet the inspiration of AFC last night at a book signing in Arlington VA. Dean Karnazes's book 'Ultramarathon Man' gave us the idea to use our excitment for biking, running, and endurance sports to make a difference! This year Dean will be running for 52 marathons in 52 days! That guy is sooo tuff.

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Here are our totals from our Guest Bartending at No Way Jose Cafe in Federal Hill Baltimore:

Total bar sales: $2,736.00
AFC gets 50% of the total bar sales, so we got: $1,368
(80% goes to Kupenda, 20% goes to ADA)


Total from tips: $600.00
(50% goes to Kupenda, 50% goes to ADA)

Total for t-shirts and raffle: $710.00
(100% AFC - we spent about $1,600 buying the 2 hundred t-shirts... we will start making money on them soon... i think we only sold about 45)

Thank you to eveyone who came out!! It was a total success!! I think everyone has a greattt time

-Patt

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Thanks to the efforts of our Mid-Maryland Triathlon club president, Sadj Bartolo, we were put in contact with Ron Cassie who wrote an excellent article in Spokes Magazine all about AFC's trip across the country!! We are sooooo excited to be in such a cool magazine!! Everyone should go and check it out!!

-Pattt

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The bartending night last night was a blast!!! Everyone had a great time! We sold our t-shirts, had some raffles, made tons of tips. We are still waiting to hear how much money we raised for Kupenda and ADA... once we know we will post a blog with the final results.

Adam and Stump did an amazingggg job behind the bar while I was 'working the crowd'

Don't you like our cool AFC t-shirts?

-Pattt

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Our visit with Emmanuel was AMAZING! Emmanuel said he would like to join us for two full weeks on our bike ride. He said he would like to join us for RAGBRAI(7/20-2/29) and our last week where we finish in Ocean City, Maryland(8/28-9/4). We are so excited for Emmanuel to join us!! He is just like us and even trains for 4 hours straight on stationary bike at A time!! I dont know if Pat or I could even do something like that:). He's tuff. Also, Emmanuel has invited us to bike across Africa some day in the future. We were thinking we could bike from Ghana to Kenya, which would be west to east across the African continent.

Emmanuel is actually as much of a good person in real life as he is portrayed in his movie: Emmanuel's Gift. He is an extremely caring person and he is all out trying to make a difference and make our world a better place to live! He mentioned how money, big cars, and fancy houses are things that are unimportant, which is exactly what AFC is all about! We are very happy that he took the time out of his very busy schedule to talk to us right before he returned to Ghana. We can't wait to see him this summer!



-Adam

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