February Update (Route announced and new bike!)

Happy February everyone! I apologize to anyone who was looking forward to reading about my experiences at the 10-day Vipassana meditation course -- I got really carried away writing about it and need to go back and make it make sense. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can check out the last blog I posted on New Year's Day. In this post, I'm stoked to keep it short and sweet because the contents speak for themselves.

Before anything else, I want to thank you all for being a part of my fundraising efforts -- we have now surpassed $4,000 raised! On the topic of fundraising, I shared some donation incentives for Valentine's Day on my instagram (I may or may not be offering to run around campus shirtless). Also, we're doing a Chipotle fundraiser (see flyer at the bottom) on February 25th from 4-8pm in College Park! If you're in the area, come get a burrito and support Ulman :)

Next topic... we got our route! From now on, the 4K For Cancer '23 team will be known as Team Tahoe! Check out the rough outline of our route below. We'll be going through 11 states in this order: 

MD ➢ PA ➢ OH ➢ MI ➢ IL ➢ IA ➢ NE ➢ CO ➢ UT ➢ NV ➢ CA

Some of the route highlights include Chicago, Estes Park, North Fork Valley, Arches National Park, Bryce Canyon, Lake Tahoe, and finally, the Golden Gate Bridge! Although the major milestones are almost all in the West and I'm pumped to go through them, I'm really excited to explore the small towns and unknown wonders of the world. Let me know if you know of any must-see spots that I'll be near.

Last thing... I received my shiny new bike from Ulman! Time to really start training 😎

p.s. I'm taking name suggestions. I have a couple in mind but would love to have some more!

Thanks for everything!

Hayden

Chipotle Flyer!