But WHY???? For the animals!

Tiger is one of the many beautiful dogs available at the Hayward Animal Shelter right now!

So this us brings us to now. Out a few hundred bucks for gear, a few dozen hours for training, and probably a few years off the end of our lves due to stress and boo-boos, we have decided to make this triathalon really worth it (you know, besides the whole getting healthy part)

Jackie had the brilliant idea of having our friends sponsor our ill thoughtout endeavour and donate all the proceeds to a good cause. Sholeh and Jackie have actively been volunteering at the Hayward Animal Shelter for a few years. As an organization funded by the city government, you can guess that they are probably the first to get funding cut when a recession hits. The Volunteer Fund at the shelter helps to provide things such as surgery necessary for injured animals to survive and get well enough to be adoptable. It also provides much needed funding for dog and cat socialization, toys, leashes, basically everything to make an otherwise not so happy time at the shelter a little better for the animals. It is a great cause and we'd love if you could give what you can to help support something that is very important to myself and my mom.

You can click the donate button below and donate using a credit card, debit card or a Paypal account. You do not need to have a Paypal account, nor do you need to live in the US, nor do you need to be that internet savvy (for all my mom's friends out there...) All you have to do is click the donate button and you will be walked through the process. Any donation large or small is greatly appreciated.

If you have any questions or words of encouragement, please feel free to email us! We'd love to hear from you. We will keep updating this blog with our progress, anecdotes and other embarrassing yet hilarious trials and tribulations. Maybe the more embarassing the mishaps, the more you'll feel sorry for us and donate.

Thanks in advance for all the support! We really do appreciate all of you, even if you all make jokes about how we'll be eaten by sharks in the bay and laugh at me when I tell you how I fell off my bike on the first ride (more to tell in a soon to come post). We love you all and couldn't do any of it with our you.

Love,
Sholeh and Jackie, Sholeh's Mom
Email Sholeh: sholehm@gmail.com
Email Jackie: burmir@aol.com