Thank You...
Thank You
UWI SPEC International Half Marathon 2008 was a great experience for our team. It was the 2nd year that we produced a CariFin – Team in Training for UWI SPEC International Half Marathon.
In 2007 we had a cool 54 participants on our team.
The great Confucius said that greatest thing in life is to pass on to others what one has learnt for oneself. So it is with great humility and pleasure that I am involved in a project like this. But more importantly it is to see the first timers gain confidence in themselves and attempt the distance or see a runner enjoy the satisfaction of improving from year to year.
This year we upped the ante a bit with 80 runners signing up for our Team in Training program.
To get this show on the road I will like to recognize and thank the following people.
Allison Field for handling the administrative and financial aspects of the project, placing orders, collecting uniforms, seeing about printing and distribution.
But most critical I will like to thank those who understand – the passion, the business model and made a contribution to the furtherance to the sport and business.
I will like to recognize the people who made a contribution to the blog through their contribution in the “How I Trained” series – John Donaldson and Darren Cole. Participation in this aspect contributed a lot to the aggregated information that is necessary for us to build our information stock.
Again, to Darren Cole and Melissa Berkley two team participants who post comments on our blog, comments are a great way to have opinions other than mine on the blog. Thanks again guys…. For the people who was willing to be interviewed on camera for the “How I Trained” series – Wendy D’arbasie, Melissa Berkley, Nikosi Mc Leish as well as Angela Parris, Petrenie Roberts, who willing chat with us about their participation and training on camera.
We got to remember Vanessa Le Foon who personally was responsible for actively recruiting a large number of new people to our team. Let us not forget the team captain who assisted in getting teams to the starting line all ready to race.
And there is the sponsors representatives: Representing General Mills, Cindy Gafoor who increased sponsorship to cater for our increased sponsorship requirement this year. Vemco ‘s James Robertson representing the Gatorade brand stepped up to the plate by adding running shorts to the uniform mix.
As far as the internet goes with blog and e-news letter and videos, every time you access our blog and read the article or open our e-news it is registered as a hit and it is an indicator of how many persons read our blog.
These statistics are very important to our business model which depends on community involvement and support to move forward. Even of greater importance are members like Darren Cole and Melissa Berkley who keep their own blogs and link to the funfitnessfriendship blog.
So it is good when people subscribe to our business model, this takes place when people honor their commitment when we register them, to show up and wear the team’s uniform. People help our business model when they read and comment on our blog, when they open our e-news letter, when they submit articles to our blog, when they subscribe to our blog via our RSS feed using Google reader or some other or even when our members keep their own blog and then link back to us.
This way we will continue to do business, attract more sponsors, offer more benefits to the people who sign up to participate with us and have a bigger team. When we have people do faster times and introduce more people to the sport, we move closer to our goal of promoting a more active lifestyle and lift the flag of fun, fitness and friendship higher.
