We all love the sea turtles ... now you can get some exercise and help them out. The great folks at Mote Marine are sponsoring the:
22nd Annual Run for the Turtles
Supporting Sea Turtle Conservation and Research
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Day of Race
6:30 a.m.: Registration Begins at the Siesta Key Gazebo, south of the pavilion
7:30 a.m.: 1 Mile Fun Run or Walk
8 a.m.: 5K MTC Sanctioned Run

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Please help him!!!

I did a quick ride through on my bike of the 2008 Embracing Our Differences show at Island Park on Sarasota Bay -- very cool...

I have been getting the CHIP newsletter for a while and find it pretty interesting. It's not one of my hot button issues but certainly very important. Another great thing going on in Sarasota that most people have never heard of!

Community Health Improvement Partnership or CHIP, brings together a dynamic collaboration of individuals, not-for-profit organizations, hospitals, and other agencies dedicated to building better health and wellness for Sarasota and Charlotte Counties. CHIP empowers these groups to create tangible, positive change by engaging in the following crucial activities:

Visioning - Collecting & Analyzing Data - Prioritizing Issues

Taking Action - Evaluating Results - Informing the Community

The heart of CHIP - the fundamental pulse driving the process - springs from the exciting energy of the people working with CHIP to improve health. And health, for CHIP, is broadly defined to include more than just the physical condition of individuals. It emphasizes the wellness of the entire community and its social and personal resources.

Run Suwanee -- Suwanee, Georgia's Running Information Source blog has a good outsiders review of the race.

Flat, fast, and friendly describe the third annual Sarasota Marathon, held on March 2, 2008. 530 runners finished the marathon while 1,949 completed the half-marathon. Both events started in the dark at 6:00 am at the John and Mable Ringling Museum. Temperatures this time of year can range from the 50 to 80 degrees. For this reason, the race director intelligently starts the race early enough to ensure that most runners won't be on the road during the heat of the day. The race course wound its way south through residential neighborhood with views of Sarasota Bay. At mile 3.5, runners continued to race south along US 41 (Tamiami Trail), a very busy road. While traffic was blocked on one side of the highway, this was not the most scenic part of the race.