Help save lives with the ironblood challenge
Last year the Local Organising Committee of the SiS Half Ironman partnered with the Australian Red Cross Blood Service to work together to encourage triathletes, families and friends, event volunteers and the wider Port Macquarie community to roll up their sleeves and pledge to donate their blood in the inaugural IronBlood Challenge. In 2010, we will continue our support of this cause, and hope to get more blood donors on board to help save lives.
We are still looking to recruit an additional 160,000 donors to meet the national demand of 26,000 donations of blood every week. It is estimated that 1 in 3 people will need blood in their lifetime. Currently only 1 in 30 donate.
IronBlood Ambassadors for the event include:
· Local Triathletes Tim Berkel, Mitch Robbins & Adam Holborow
· Greg Laws, Chairman of the Local Organising Committee
· Peter Besseling, Independent Member for Port Macquarie and Year of the Blood Donor Ambassador
· Tony Abbott, Leader of the Opposition, Shadow Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs & Half Ironman and soon to be full Ironman competitor.
Greg Laws, 7 times IronMan and regular blood donor himself is proof that you can combine donating blood with the rigours of an Ironman training programme. Greg is encouraging triathletes and the Port Macquarie community to get behind the IronBlood Challenge. “The SiS Half Ironman is a signature event on the Triathlon and Port Macquarie calendars. Our volunteers always ensure the event is memorable for the competitors. This year, we hope we can make the event also memorable for those people whose lives will be saved with the donated blood.”
For triathletes we will not be asking you to donate blood near the event. You can make a time that fits in with your racing/training schedule. Ask your friends and families to get involved so that we can reach our target of 2000 pledges and 6000 lives saved.
...Ask your friends and families to get involved so that we can reach our target of 2000 pledges and 6000 lives saved
