Woohoo! World VegFest 2010!

Hello Everybody!

Here's the first picture of the ACTUAL shirt I will be wearing for my training and the marathon (with all of your names added on the back of course)!  I wore it to the World VegFest in San Francisco this weekend.  I had a great time answering questions about The Vegan Firefighter and Farm Sanctuary (their logo is on the back)  :).
This is me with Robert Cheeke, he is the most well known VEGAN bodybuilder in the business, a SUPER nice guy and he also works for VEGA.  Anyone who knows me knows I LOVE VEGA.  It is an awesome vegan nutritional supplement.  They have protein powders, energy bars... anything you need to aide in training or to just supplement your day to day intake they have it.  Robert TOTALLY hooked me up with lots of VEGA goodies to keep me strong during my training and for my race.  If the idea of a vegan bodybuilder is intriguing you should check out his book Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness.

My wife and I also listened to a couple of great speakers at the VegFest and sampled some really great products and food.  We spent some time bumming around San Francisco, we stayed at a really great hotel (okay my brother's house...but it's a REALLY nice house).  We found an amazing sandwich shop, IKE'S, they have a list of a 100+ sandwiches for carnivores, herbivores and those pretentious damn vegans so everyone is happy!  We also took our youngest daughter Wynn for her very first ice cream at this fantastic little shop called Maggie Mudd that serves dairy free sundaes!

Okay enough about me and my weekend let me take a quick second to THANK THANK THANK all of you who have donated so far!  Our first week of collecting donations went well. If you haven't donated yet check out the sidebar for a link to donate using your credit card through GIVEFORWARD.  It's a great service that is helping us reach our goal of raising a $1000 for Farm Sanctuary.  You can also just mail me a check and don't forget to email me to let me know that you have donated so I can send you one of our SUPER COOL "I supported..." shirts.

Thank you again to all of our supporters, friends and followers!

Give Forward!

Hello Everybody!

We have received lots of questions in regards of how to donate, YAY!  So here are your options for giving:

1. Mail us a check!
    Make it out to: Cory Kalanick
    Our Address: 2697 Sun Drive Hanford, CA 93230

2.  Visit: http://www.giveforward.org/the-vegan-firefighter
     You can choose the amount you want to donate and pay with your credit card!

We appreciate ANY amount!  If you can give $25 we will hook you up with the shirt shown above letting everyone know that you are an awesome person that supported The Vegan Firefighter and Farm Sanctuary!

Please email us at veganfirefighter@sbcglobal.net to let us know that either a check is on the way or that you visited http://www.giveforward.org/the-vegan-firefighter and donated to the cause.  Please include your address in your email so that we can send out your SUPER COOL shirt!

Thank you everyone for your support!
Again if you have any questions please email us at veganfirefighter@sbcglobal.net

Get Ready... Get Set... GO!!!

Hello Everyone!  Vegan Firefighter here.  Just wanted to give you a quick update.  I am expecting to have the final design for our fundraising shirts this Friday!  All of us working on this project are very excited!  I promise as soon as I have the design in my hot hands (no pun intended) you will get a preview here at TheVeganFirefighter.

For all of you that are unfamiliar with me or what I am trying to do here is a quick recap...

A couple of months ago (with my wife's oh so gentle urging) I decided to finally commit to my first marathon.  As I began my training I started thinking (lots of time to think on those LOOONG training runs) how I could do more with this marathon goal.  On one of these runs I happened to be daydreaming about a weekend my wife and I spent at the Farm Sanctuary in Orland, CA.  We had, had a terrific weekend and were thoroughly impressed with the work the people there were doing to help animals and promote a cruelty free world; and then it came to me!... Could we possibly incorporate a fundraiser into this marathon?  I jogged home to talk to the boss... and here we are!  Basically, I will be training for the marathon and raising awareness for veganism and Farm Sanctuary by collecting donations.  All those who donate $25.00 or more will receive a shirt telling everyone you have supported The Vegan Firefighter and Farm Sanctuary.  And, all of the names of those who donated to this amazing organization will also get their name printed on the back of my shirt that I will be wearing in the LAS VEGAS MARATHON!

The list of people who are helping make this dream a reality is growing but so far we would like to thank Sasser Specialties for helping with the printing of our shirts.  We would also like to thank Matt Hines and Josh Henderson for creating The Vegan Firefighter logo, it looks great!  Thanks guys!

Watch out for more news from The Vegan Firefighter!

If you have any questions please email me at VeganFirefighter@sbcglobal.net