Brendan Haugh's Fundraising Page

Page Creator: Brendan Haugh

Event: adidas Auckland Marathon 2010

Event Date: 31/10/2010

Each day 16 New Zealanders die as a result of coronary heart disease. That's one person every 90 minutes. And many of these deaths are premature and preventable.

Cardiovascular disease (heart, stroke & blood vessel disease) is the single leading cause of death in New Zealand. It causes 40 percent of all deaths annually in our country - making it more deadly than all forms of cancer.

The nature of who is affected by it is changing. New research shows that young adults in their 20s and 30s are being admitted to hospital for heart attacks more than ever before, and that this age group is dying at a faster rate than people of the same age in previous generations. Much of this change is due to unhealthy lifestyles - poor eating habits, lack of physical activity and being a smoker.

But the good news is that many risk factors for heart disease are preventable, if people make healthy lifestyle choices.

So, help me as I join the race to beat heart disease.

I've signed up as a Heart Racer to raise money to support the Heart Foundation. By donating through my webpage you will be helping the Heart Foundation continue its vital work in research, cardiac rehabilitation, education programmes and resources.
I'll do all the hard work (train for and complete the event – so far this year I’ve ran over 800 kms and over 70 hours), but I really need you to make a difference to the hearts of New Zealanders.

It takes approximately 46,000 strides to complete the full marathon - but I'm not exactly average height and my legs are short!! So it'll probably take me a few hundred more strides!! But taking the average if you sponsored me $5 it would take me 92 strides to earn 1 cent! I'm hoping to complete the course in around 4 hours - so every 28.8 seconds I'd earn 1 cent for that $5 sponsorship!

So, please could you sponsor me?

Select the "Make a donation" button below. It's simple, fast and totally secure and the money goes directly to the Heart Foundation's bank account.

If you live in New Zealand your donation is tax deductible and a receipt will be issued.

So please help me today! And pass it on to your family and friends!

Thanks in advance…..

My Online Sponsors To Date:

Date	Name	Amount	Comment
2/11/2010	Paymark	$20.00	Paymark Cash Donations #4:- Sarah R - $20
29/10/2010	The Boyz	$50.00	Go Dad!!!
29/10/2010	Paymark	$5.00	Paymark Cash Donations #2:- Howell $5
29/10/2010	stretchkiwi	$25.00
29/10/2010	Jen	$10.00
29/10/2010	Anna S	$25.00
29/10/2010	Jaki Supra	$10.00
29/10/2010	Paymark	$45.00	Paymark Cash Donations #2:- Keith $10 Debbie L $20 Howell $10 Chris T $5
29/10/2010	Ofelia	$15.00	Go Go Go Brendan!!! good work!!
28/10/2010	Phil	$25.00
27/10/2010	Richard Samuel	$5.00
27/10/2010	Brendan Haugh	$75.00	Paymark Cash Donations:- Lucy $10 Ravi $10 Nato $10 Manoj $5 Allan $10 Paul Walsh $5 Robert $5 Ket $20 Many thanks….
25/10/2010	Peach and Mike	$50.00	Hi B…good luck sunshine..you are running on our anniversary so we will have a drink for you….good luckxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
22/10/2010	Pat & Roger	$50.00	Hope the day goes well, and your little legs make it to the finish line! Go little Bro!
17/10/2010	Paddy, Katie and Keira	$78.22	Good luck - work out the algorithm for the donation amount and I'll up it to $100
7/10/2010	Shells	$20.00	Go Brendan - only 46,000 strides awesome effot!
3/10/2010	Pinkerton Family	$25.00	Good Luck……run Brendan run!!!! Soph, Jon, Nico and Charlie
3/10/2010	Vivek	$50.00	Good Luck Brendan and Well done for the hard work !!!
3/10/2010	Brad Kapma	$20.00	Good luck on the run, Brendan. See you at the Start line…
20/9/2010	Gillian	$10.00	Good luck!
20/9/2010	Rosemarie B	$25.00	Thanks for doing this Brendan!
15/9/2010	Ben	$25.00
15/9/2010	Angela G	$25.00	Go Brendan! A wonderful thing to do :-)
15/9/2010	Peter R	$50.00	If I sponsor you, I don't have to run, that is the deal right? :)
13/9/2010	Andrea	$10.00	I'll be on a plane trying to sleep whilst you're running, you deserve a medal for the full, too much like hard work for me.

	Total Raised Online:	NZD$748.22
	Total Raised Offline:	NZD$0.00
	GRAND TOTAL:	NZD$748.22
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