04/21/09

Aloha 50 States & DC 1/2 Marathon 
Runners,
I wanted to send you a personal 
invitation to join us on the beautiful 
island of Hawai`i and run the Kona 1/2 
Marathon on June 28, 2009. The Big 
Island of Hawai`i is truly a place 
unto itself, from the erupting Kilauea 
Volcano to deep sea fishing.  
Everything is available to you here in 
a quiet pristine environment creating 
a wonderful vacation experience for 
you, your families and friends.
The Kona 1/2 Marathon is relatively 
small with 300-400 runners. The race 
course along the beautiful Kona Coast 
shoreline gives you views of the ocean 
and mountains. Great volunteers cheer 
you on along the race course and a 
friendly family atmosphere awaits you 
at the finish line.

The Keauhou Outrigger Beach Resort, 
where the start/finish line is, offers 
runners a discounted rate of $130 per 
night including breakfast - call the 
hotel directly for the Runners Rate 
808-324-2515   
Remember there is a $5 discount on 
your entry fee when you mail it in. 
For more information regarding the 
event please visit our web site: 
www.konamarathon.com or email me with 
any further questions. I have attached 
an application to this email for your 
convenience.
Come to the island of Hawai`i and have 
a truly memorable race to add to your 
collection.
Aloha for now,
Sharron Faff - Race Director
www.konamarathon.com
808-967-8240
raceinfo@konamarathon.com

12/12/08

2009 - Get Together (Reunion)


04/11/09   ILLINOIS MARATHON       
Champain/Urbana,IL

09/19/09 AIR FORCE MARATHON      
Dayton, Ohio

10/18/09 Detroit Free Press MARATHON   
Detroit, Michigan

11/07/09 MIDSOUTH MARATHON          
Wynne, Arkansas

12/12/08

2010  -   Get Together (Reunion)

03/27/10 OLATHE MARATHON          
Olathe, Kansas

05/16/10 FARGO MARATHON  
Fargo, North Dakota

09/19/10 FOX CITIES MARATHON     
Appleton, Wisconsin

10/02/10 BOISE MARATHON               
Boise, Idaho

12/05/08

Scholarship
Scholarship applications for 2009 will 
be ready at the first of the year. 
This year donations were small so we 
will have one $500 scholarship. 

Donations-
 Donations for the Scholarship Fund 
are welcome and always greatly 
appreciated at any time.
Send them directly to

Jerry Schaver
PO Box 167
Albany, IL. 61230 

12/05/08

SEND IN YOUR STATS - 
Please send your stats in by the site 
where it says update your stats, or 
send it by email, or by mail. I would 
like to get an update from all.

12/05/08

DISCOUNTS LINK - Do not forget to look 
at the half marathon discount link to 
see if we have a discount for your 
marathon.

12/05/08

MERCHANDISE – We have a few new thing 
on the site were you can some books 
and DVD

My First 100 Marathon

Run Your First Marathon

The Runner’s Guide to the Meaning of 
Life

Beyond Running

See Dane Run

Heading Toward the Final Finish Line’

DVD  Spirit of the marathon

12/05/08

50 &D.C. MARATHON GROUP

2009 HUMANITARIAN AWARD Goes to;

Dane E. Rauschenberg

   
   Setting a goal of running fifty-two 
marathons in fifty-two weeks is a 
daring thing to do.  This is even more 
daring when you first start planning 
to do so you have only run six 
marathons in your entire life. 
Announcing your goal to the public 
where any slipup renders the entire 
project moot intensifies the pressure 
even more. And if that is not enough, 
perhaps you should also take time to 
start a new marathon and be the race 
director, add a charitable fundraising 
side to your running, endeavor to 
speak on the radio, television and 
newspapers to raise funds and 
awareness for that charity, continue 
working a full-time job and maybe also 
even squeeze in a personal record or 
two along the way.
   This year’s winner of the 
HUMANITARIAN AWARD is Dane 
Rauschenberg and all the things listed 
above developed from a single idea.
   Dane is a Penn State and Dickinson 
Law School graduate and had been 
working in the corporate world before 
setting out on this amazing journey. 
The idea began with how he wished to 
run a certified marathon each weekend 
for an entire year. Dane began 
researching and developing his 
schedule. One marathon that fit his 
schedule was the First Light Marathon 
in Mobile Alabama and while inquiring 
about the details of this marathon 
Dane learned that the marathon 
benefitted L’Arche.  This simple 
inquiry as to what L’Arche did set 
things in motion for the charity that 
would benefit from Dane’s efforts in 
2006 and into the future.
   L’Arche is an international 
federation of communities where people 
with a mental handicap and those who 
help and care for them can live, work 
and share their lives together. The 
first community was established in 
France in 1964 and has developed into 
many religious and cultural traditions 
around the world. The United States 
has sixteen communities and two 
projects. These communities rely on 
donations for a portion of their 
income, the moneys raised by Dane 
helped the community in Mobile Alabama 
with their financial needs and Dane 
believes that the awareness brought to 
the L’Arche communities around the 
world will be a benefit for them far 
into the future.
   Dane dubbed his project “Fiddy2” a 
play on words for the fifty two 
marathons in fifty two weeks and the 
financial goal of fifty two thousand 
dollars. While the financial goal has 
not been reached as of yet, (Dane is 
currently at $44,000) Dane is hopeful 
it will be reached soon. The website 
www.fiddy2.org  remains active and is 
always accepting donations.
   To promote the fund raising effort 
Dane submitted blog postings, sent out 
weekly press releases and received 
radio, television and print coverage.  
He was featured at various pre-race 
pasta dinners and spoke all over the 
country tirelessly about L’Arche and 
its message.
   The weekend of December 22nd did 
not offer any certified marathons 
anywhere in the world so Dane took it 
upon himself to organize and be the 
race director of the inaugural Drake 
Well Marathon in his home town of 
Titusville Pennsylvania. The race was 
capped at 25 runners and consisted of 
105.5 laps around the high school 
track. Runners from nine states took 
part in this event.
   Dane had some impressive records to 
his credit before his fifty- two 
marathon challenge in 2006. In 2003, 
he broke the course record at the 
Presque Isle Endurance Classic by 
completing eighty-four miles in twelve 
hours for an amazing 8:30 minute mile 
pace.  In 2005 he won the PT Cruiser 
Challenge in Tampa Florida, which was 
event consisting of a 5k, 15k and a 
marathon in a twenty-four hour period 
where the winner had the lowest 
cumulative time.
   Running in 2006 took Dane to twenty 
eight states, two Canadian Provinces 
and the Cayman Islands. Dane’s goal 
was to not simply show up at raced but 
rather run at or near his peak week-in 
and week-out.  In his forty second 
marathon of the year, he set a new 
personal record by running under the 
coveted three hour barrier with a 
finish time of 2:59:48 in Niagara 
Falls Canada. On top of that, Dane 
showed you can get faster by racing 
often by averaging a 3:13 for the 
second half of the year after 
averaging a 3:29 for the first half of 
the year.
   For the giving of his time and 
talents to benefit those that are less 
fortunate.  The 50 State and D.C. 
Marathon Group U.S.A. is proud to 
present to Dane Rauschenberg the 2008 
Humanitarian Award.
   May his belief of benefiting 
L’Arche far into the future continue 
to be a reality.

BY Frank Jobe

12/27/07

MERCHANDISE CHANGE –
Marathon Jackets are getting hard to 
get the kind we have so I got 2 new 
kinds of jackets. They are about the 
same. I do have Red & Navy Blue. You 
can still have your name on the 
jacket. Look at the Merchandise were 
it said Jacket and look at it. The 
price is still the same.

06/28/07

50&DC Half Marathon T - Shirt 

If you would like to get a Half 
Marathon T-Shirt go to the merchandise 
and get a order form.

06/28/07

50&DC Half Marathon Patches 

If you would like to get a Half 
Marathon patch go to the merchandise 
and get a order form.

06/28/07

06/28/07
 EXOTIC MARATHONS
Would you like to travel to exotic 
places to do a marathon? Well I have 
the person for you to do just that. 
Kathy Loper a runner herself for over 
33 years, and has twenty-five years of 
Event Directing experience. You can 
join a group of running enthusiasts 
from around the world on a marathon of 
a lifetime in Russia, Great Wall of 
China, Switzerland, Thailand to name a 
few. You can get more information by 
contacting: Kathy Loper Events
            7801 Mission Center Court
            Suite 103
            San Diego, CA 92108
            #619-298-7448
     E-mail: kathy@kathyloperevents.com
          www.kathyloperevents.com