Local Business Round-Up - January

Its that time again folks - time to round-up the folks around RVA that have been giving the Massey Challenge some love in the past month as we live local, give local to cure cancer.

Just in time to kick off New Years resolutions, Yoga Source and Ellwood Thompson's partnered up to bring at bit of OM into our lives with a yoga class to benefit the Challenge:  

We all blissed out in preparation for the months ahead and all of the amazing opportunities we would have to get RVA ready to fight cancer.  And we raised a good bit of money to fund the fight to boot.

We also partnered up with our friends over at Clear Channel Radio:

Who are not only running some great ads to remind RVA to head over to www.run4massey.org and accept the Challenge and interviewing some incredible folks who have already accepted it (lets ignore the fact that I just called myself incredible - there are other great interviews on their way!!), but two of their radio personalities - Kat and Jackson - are heading up their very own Challenge teams!  So if you're hesitant to join the Challenge on your own or to head up your own team, tune into Lite98 and Q94 to find out how to join one of them (or find Jackson's team page here).

Just in time for 10k training to get really underway, 3Sports stepped up to partner with the Challenge:

You can still head over to either Richmond location and help fight cancer.  Through February 4, 2013, let them know you support Massey and they'll make a $10 donation to the Challenge for each pair of sneakers you pick up!  Thanks 3Sports!

With the amount of time I have spent at the various Greater Richmond YMCA branches in the last two weeks, I think I might qualify for status as one of the Village People:

I am in awe by the number of branch Wellness Directors that already have plans to get their branches involved in the Massey Challenge and by the outpouring of support they have already given to us.  I cant wait to see what they do together!

Psst - Its not too late to sign up for a 10kTT!!  Click here to sneak in before its too late!  I promise you wont regret it!

And who could forget:

Our dear darlings over at Sports Backers have been our partners in this journey for the last eight years.  January has been an amazing month of working closely with them - to hash out plans for the first ever Massey Mile, drumming up excitement among the media and the sponsors of the Ukrops Monument Avenue 10k, and traveling to each and every YMCA in the Richmond area to bring them the Massey message.

I have to admit that I love seeing the transition thats taken place as we've worked more and more closely with each other in the last several years - this year I probably could have lets the Sports Backers coaches pitch Massey for me - they are all such strong advocates themselves now!

This fun and warm-hearted group of folks is getting RVA moving each and every day.  So dont just stop at the 10k.  Plan on signing up for lots of their other events too!

Remember our deal, folks - these guys give us love, so we give them love right back.  Head on out and patronize these local businesses and tell them thank you for putting cancer on the run!