Raising Money for Breast Cancer at the Affiliate Summit Meet Market

The first day of Affiliate Summit they hold a "Meet Market". We rented a table to raise money for breast cancer. Someone could buy a button for $10.00 and they were entered in to a raffle for prizes that were all donated. Here are the prizes that were won.

Prizes include:

• Ice Wine - 2004 Saw Mill Creek from GayWeddingGear.com
  Bin 88, Ice Wine, a Vidal from the Niagara Peninsula in Canada
• 1 hour of consulting from Shawn Collins Consulting
• One of a kind Sterling Silver Unisex Necklace from Tiffany Spaulding Designs, valued at $200.00
• FREE Checks for a year from 4checks.com
  Winner receives free checks from any of the brands featured on 4checks.com for one year, up to 6 boxes.
• An original hand made Pink Ribbon Penguin and $50 gift certificate from JGoode Designs
• A Build Your Business Package from GigglePrint.com
  Winner receives one order of business cards, letterhead w/ envelopes, postcards and an endorsement stamp.
  
• A Ribbon Of Hope Checks & Accessories Package
  Winner receives 2 boxes of checks, one set of address labels and one leather checkbook cover in our Ribbon of Hope design
• 1 hour of phone consulting $300/hr value from Paulson Management Group.
• One iPod Nano and an iTunes gift card from Lisa Riolo
• 1 Free full conference pass to Affiliate Summit Vegas 2009
• 1 Month ad placement from Revenews
• 25 cases of Jones Soda
• (Ten) $60.00 Gift Certificates from LoxlyGallery.com (to be awarded individually)
• Video Spokes Model Certificate
  

I do not have the exact count of what we raised at the booth but it was over $1,000.00.
Thank you to everyone that stopped by the booth and showed your support. Thank you to CafePress for donating the buttons.

How Many Steps?

I decided to publicly post how many steps I am taking with my new pedometer. That way it will motivate me to walk more because I know I am going to post them on here. I received my pedometer on July 8th.

Steps for July - 116,200
Daily Average - 4,648

Total Aerobic Steps - 16,240
Daily Average - 650

Aerobic Walking Time for the Month - 139 minutes
Daily Average - 6

Distance for the Month - 43.89 Miles
Daily Average - 1.76

Fat Burner for the Month - 198.5 grams
Daily Average - 7.9 grams

After typing out these numbers I realized they are pretty pathetic to be honest. I need to start getting up early in the morning and/or walking at night to get more steps in.

I did go camping over the weekend and didn't wear my pedometer around the campground. I am going to have to walk more to make up for those days that I don't have numbers to report with.

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Rained Out Again....

Jen and I were so excited about walking sixty miles on Wednesday. About 4 o'clock it started pouring and didn't end for hours. We were willing to walk in a slight drizzle. When we left to drive over to Missy's house it was still coming down in buckets so we had to cancel our plans. Hopefully we can schedule a group walk again soon.

Walking Ten Miles Today

Jen and I are meeting up with Missy Ward tonight to walk ten miles. I think this will be a good test if we are on track with the training or not.

I am guessing that it will take us around 3-3.5 hours to walk the full ten miles. Missy has ten miles mapped out for us. We will be walking well in to the darkness this evening.

I will have my pedometer on so I can see how many steps we take. It is a little more than 2,000 steps per mile. We will end up with over 20,000 steps for the night in addition to how many we accumulate during the day.

I love this new pedometer. I wear it everywhere. It love that I can put it in my purse or in my pocket and it still counts my steps. I don't have to worry about it falling off my belt.

I will post pictures and/or video tomorrow from our walk.

Rain Rain Go Away!

I really enjoy going to the park and walking. Not only do I get the view of the water and generally nice weather, it is nice to have someone to walk and talk with. I seem to walk much further there than in the gym.

A good friend of mine and I planned on going to the park yesterday but it was raining again, so we went to the gym. I got on the elliptical and that machine kicked my butt! By time I went a mile, I was drenched in sweat. (I normally don't sweat!) HA!

Then I got on the treadmill and walked/ran another mile. By the time I had two miles in I was exhausted. We left and I mentioned that I like going to the park to walk because the time goes by so much faster. I feel like I got a better workout in the gym though. I wonder if walking casually five miles is any less or more beneficial than going to the gym and doing two miles and getting drenched in sweat?

35 Miles this Week...

Jen and I receive an email weekly with the training schedule for the week. According to the schedule we should walk around 35 miles this week. I don't know if we are going to make it to 35 miles but we will try.

I uploaded my stats from my pedometer to the software that is provided to my computer this morning. That definitely gave me motivation to get out and walk more. I had one day in the last week that I walked over 10,000 steps.

I am going back to Cranes Roost park today and will probably walk between 5-6 miles. That will definitely put me over the 10,000 steps for the day. According to my training schedule I need about 70,000 steps this week! WOW!

I am not sure if I will make 70,000 or not. I am leaving for BlogHer in San Francisco on Thursday. I am sure we will do plenty of walking around the show, San Fran. and the airports. I just may have to get on the treadmill at the hotel so I can my mileage in! I don't want to show up to Seattle and be out of shape and hold the group up!