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Podcast 76: Mary Chervenak of the BLUE PLANET RUN Team

Posted September 10th, 2007 at 9:45 AM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results, Marathons, Columns, Special Features, Interviews, Podcasts, SPOTLIGHT

Episode sponsored by: Bill Rodgers Sportswear
After 21 years Bill Rodgers Sportswear is closing out their line of high-quality running apparel. Visit shopfest.com to take advantage of an unprecedented 50% discount on all in-stock items!

Episode 76 of The Final Sprint Podcast features my interview with Mary Chervenak; one of the 20 members of the Blue Planet Run Team who just finished an around-the-world, 95 day and 15,000 mile running adventure to raise money for safe drinking water projects, increase global awareness and to demonstrate the need for the world’s population to band together to bring an end to this problem (Click here to watch a YouTube video about the BPR!).

In the interview Mary discusses her team’s efforts, training for and completing this international running and philanthropic quest, and it’s impact, both emotionally and physically, the Blue Planet Runners.

Download the podcast to hear Mary discuss these topics, as well as, her response to critics who deem the Dow Chemical’s sponsorship as “hypocritical”, why the route did not go through Africa, plans to continue the run every two years, and much more!

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Host: Adam Jacobs | Guest: Mary Chervenak
Producer: Greg Cherniet
Musicians: Ryan Ahlwardt & Darnell Perkins
File Size: 19.3 MB | Length: 28:14 MIN

Episode sponsored by: Bill Rodgers Sportswear
After 21 years Bill Rodgers Sportswear is closing out their line of high-quality running apparel. Visit shopfest.com to take advantage of an unprecedented 50% discount on all in-stock items!

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2007 Blue Planet Run Concludes in New York City

Posted September 4th, 2007 at 8:54 PM by Adam Jacobs

Section: News & Results, Columns, SPOTLIGHT

An historic around-the-world relay run reached its finish line today in New York City, marking the completion of an unprecedented three-month athletic endeavor that is raising funds to deliver safe drinking water to some of the 1.1 billion people who currently live without it.

The inaugural 2007 Blue Planet Run, an event made possible by the generous support of The Dow Chemical Company, ended at noon at Manhattan’s South Street Seaport.

The twenty original Blue Planet Run team members who circumnavigated the globe, and two alternates who joined the journey along the way, ran through a crowd of fans, family and friends who were gathered at the landmark New York City waterfront locale to celebrate with the group as it completed its epic 95-day, 15,200-mile expedition through 16 countries.

Beginning from the United Nations in New York City on June 1, the Blue Planet Run team has run relay-style 24 hours a day, seven days a week across Europe, Russia, Asia, Canada and the United States. The runners have endured some of the world’s toughest conditions, from swatting flies through the Gobi Desert to navigating city streets in Beijing to coping with the blistering summer heat of America’s heartland.

Along the way, the Blue Planet Run inspired people around the world to donate to the Blue Planet Run Foundation (BPRF), the non-profit group that organized the Run. Because of Dow’s support, BPRF dedicates one-hundred percent of the money raised to fund grassroots safe-drinking-water projects in rural communities.
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