Tutus for Tanner
Tanner must be a pretty special kid. He’s gotta be pretty amazing. I first heard about him after my friend Elle asked me to run a 5K with her. When I mentioned this race to another friend it was suggested that we run in tutus in honor of Tanner.
Those of you who know me know that I’m not big on physical activity let alone skirts. And a tutu is kind of the epitome of a skirt. I feel very brave for agreeing to do this. However, I am nowhere near as brave as Tanner.
Tanner is battling muscular dystrophy. He’s miles braver than I ever can imagine being. His aunt has written about him in her blog. She was planning to run the Disney Princess Half Marathon in Tanner’s honor. She was unable to run in the race for him so some of her friends thought up this idea: Tutus for Tanner
Even though we’ve never met him, Tanner (and his family) has a special place in many of our hearts, and so we wanted to do something special to help lift Catherine’s spirits and honor Tanner in the way she wanted to this past weekend.
So, along with fellow Shredhead Kari Dahlen, I came up with the idea “Tutus for Tanner.” It’s really quite simple. If you’re planning on running a race this year (5K, 10K, Half Marathon, Marathon, or whatever other distances exist), then agree to wear a tutu when you do, in honor of Tanner.
Elle also had a genius idea of using this race to raise some money for a meaningful cause. Raising money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association was the first choice. It really made the most sense to me. So, I’ve set up a First Giving Donation Site. There’s a link on the side of my blog too. Go, clickly, please!
Elle and I are offering mini tutus for each $15 donation. I’m working on a couple prizes that we can raffle off to all donators. So we hope that you’ll click on over to the donation page and put a couple bucks towards a good cause.
UPDATE 6/1: We’ve got 3 tickets to the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium and 2 $10 gift cards to Amazon.com. We’d love to have more prizes, so if you’d like to donate something to the pot let me know. We will add each donator’s name to the drawing and choose winners randomly June 12. I will post the winners here on my blog. Good luck!
If you do donate and would like a mini tutu and to be entered into the raffle please send me an email; bethalbert [at] gmail [dot] com. This is just so I have some kind of contact information for winners.
We extra hope that you’ll come out to the race and cheer us on, it’s not like we’ll be hard to miss!
Thanks.
**These prizes have not been sponsored by the respective companies.
