WILL CLICK 4 FOOD
For a limited time, every new “Like” that our Give n’ Gobble Facebook Fan Page receives, Stacy Ownes will donate $1 dollar to the event, which supports Sherwood’s Helping Hands food bank.
Make your click count, suggest and share the Give n’ Gobble Facebook page with your friends!
What an easy way to make a difference in the lives of those in need!
Five days and counting until Sherwood’s Give n’ Gobble 5K/10K run and food drive.
With race day quickly approaching, we’ve been gathering some last minute tips on how to prepare for the day.
* Make sure you get at least 7 hours of sleep the night before the race.
* Charge your iPod so that you won’t be left without your music halfway through the race.
* On race day, get up at least a couple hours before the race and have breakfast. Keep you breakfast low in sugar and fiber.
* Stop at the restroom before the race starts. It’s a pretty short race, you hate to have to stop in the middle.
* Get to Sherwood High School with enough time to check out the silent auction items!
* Have fun!
Here are a few articles with even more tips:
Last Minute Tips for Running Races: 5K to Marathons
Last Minute Tips for 5K and 10K races
8 Lessons from My First 5K Race
The whole reason we started Sherwood’s Give n’ Gobble Run/Walk was to help fund the wonderful work of Helping Hands food bank. Since the first Thanksgiving Day race and food drive five years ago, we have collected 24 tons (yes, tons!) of food and nearly $50,000 for Helping Hands.
This one-day event, that draws runners and walkers from Sherwood, Portland, Newberg, Tigard, Tualatin, and lots of other cities, raises enough money each year to cover the food bank’s annual expenses.
Here’s why we think Helping Hands is so important. Helping Hands…
* Feeds an average of 80 families every month.
* Hands out close to 350 turkeys and hams to families in need during the holiday season.
* Volunteers sponsor 348 families and children during the holiday season.
* Has 25 committed volunteers that help support our local families.
* Volunteers commit more than 145 hours each month to lending a helping hand to those in need.
Thanks to everyone who participates in the Give n’ Gobble each year. YOU are making a difference in the lives of your neighbors!
Time is flying by quicker than you can say “Give n’ Gobble 5K Run/Walk & 10K Run fundraiser for Helping Hands food bank.” :^)
Tomorrow, November 16th, is the LAST DAY for early registration!
After tomorrow, you’ll have to get up early on Thanksgiving Day and head on down to Sherwood High School to get yourself registered for the “turkey trot.”
We have to limit the number of participants to 2,000 so registering early is the only way to guarantee that you’ll have a place in the area’s premier Thanksgiving Day run - and we’d hate for you to miss out!
So no more procrastinating…click here to register NOW!
It’s contest time!
Visit Sherwood’s Give n’ Gobble Facebook page and give us your best excuse for NOT exercising. The comment with the most LIKES will win a fabulous TURKEY HAT (your choice from our gallery)! Easy peasy!
The winner will be announced on Thanksgiving Day at Sherwood High School at the Give n’ Gobble 5K Run/Walk & 10K Run, a fundraiser for Helping Hands food bank.
Some good ones already posted…
“I’m to hungry to work out, followed by I’m too full now I don’t want to get sick.”
“I don’t know where to walk/run, what if I get lost.”
“It’s getting chilly out and I need my extra body fat.”
Good ones! What’s your excuse?
Enter your excuse on our Facebook page.
Today we celebrate and thank many more sponsors of the Give n’ Gobble 5K/10K run and food drive.
We can’t host thousands of runners and walker, raise thousands of dollars or collect tons (literally tons!) of food without the generous support of these sponsors. THANK YOU!
New Gold Sponsor
Planet HVAC Heating & Air Conditioning
Silver Sponsors
Chapman Smiles
Hasson Company Realtors - The Gardner Team
Pride Disposal Company
Century Hotel
Northland Design & Build
Caruso Produce Inc.
Les Schwab Tires
Club Sport
Snap Fitness
Thad Metzger Construction
Bronze Sponsors
State Farm Insurance
Safeway
Polar Bear Yogurt
Mary Kay - May Zettlemoyer
Attrell’s
Target
Cobalt Mortgage
For more information about our Title, Platinum and Gold Sponsors, click here.
This year’s Give n’ Gobble run and fundraiser in Sherwood is more important than ever as Helping Hands, our local food bank, recently launched their “Backpacks for Kids” program at all four Sherwood elementary schools.
“Backpacks for Kids” is designed for children who may not have access to nutritional meals at home over the weekend. Each Friday, 76 Sherwood children receive a backpack full of simple, nutritional food that will last the entire weekend.
For many school kids the free or reduced meal program is the only meal they get during the day, says Gerry Edy, Helping Hands co-director. According to the Oregon Department of Education, 95 of Sherwood’s 4,874 students is homeless - a staggering statistic in our small community. “Our goal is to make sure no child in our area goes to bed hungry,” says Edy.
Helping Hands works closely with elementary school counselors to determine which families are in need of assistance - with only the counselors knowing the names of families. “We go to great pains to make sure confidentiality is kept and that all siblings in a family are fed,” says Edy. Program participants are given clean, used backpacks so that no one will link the food program with a specific style backpack. “We could probably get Nike to donate backpacks,” says Edy, “but then everyone would know who is receiving food on Fridays.”
The “Backpack for Kids” program is a true community effort as Rotary Club members pack backpacks for Middleton and Edy Ridge students and residents at Cedar Creek Assisted Living pack backpacks for Hopkins and Archer Glen participants. The money raised by the community during the Give N’ Gobble Run/Walk funds Helping Hands’ annual expenses - helping to feed thousands of local residents.
That’s why we do this!
At this year’s Give n’ Gobble 5K Run/Walk & 10K Run, we’ll be holding a silent auction before the race to raise money for Helping Hands, Sherwood’s local food bank.
Silent auction items will be ready to bid on as soon as the morning’s registration opens and bidding will close at 8:45am - before the 9am race start time. After the race, stop back by the silent auction table to see if you’ve won! Check and cash are the preferred method of payment, but credit cards will also be welcomed. (The fewer bank fees we pay, the more $ that goes to the food bank!)
We got dozens of fabulous items that will be up for auction, including:
* A Thanksgiving flower arrangement from Sherwood’s own It’s All Arranged
* Gift certificate from Sweet Story Bakery in Old Town
* A round of golf at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club
* Gift certificate from Road Runner Sports
* And MUCH more!
Check out our auction page for all the great items that will be available at Sherwood’s premier “turkey trot”!
We ran across an interesting article in The New York Times the other day as we were searching for ideas on how to improve our Give n’ Gobble training program. As Thanksgiving Day and Sherwood’s “turkey trot” are only a couple weeks away, and knowing that we usually overindulge on the sweet and savory goodness on turkey day, we found this information about exercising in the morning before breakfast quite interesting.
A study published in The Journal of Physiology suggests exercising in the morning, before eating, seems to significantly lessen the ill effects of holiday gluttony.
The study notes that eating a high-fat, high-calorie diet during the holidays may not only make your waistline grow, it could have more serious health consequences like increased increased blood sugar and insulin resistance, potentially increasing the risk for Type 2 diabetes.
From the article, “Phys Ed: The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast,” in The New York Times:
“Just how exercising before breakfast blunts the deleterious effects of overindulging is not completely understood, although this study points toward several intriguing explanations. For one, as has been known for some time, exercising in a fasted state (usually possible only before breakfast), coaxes the body to burn a greater percentage of fat for fuel during vigorous exercise, instead of relying primarily on carbohydrates. When you burn fat, you obviously don’t store it in your muscles. In “our study, only the fasted group demonstrated beneficial metabolic adaptations, which eventually may enhance oxidative fatty acid turnover,” said Peter Hespel, Ph.D., a professor in the Research Center for Exercise and Health at Catholic University Leuven in Belgium and senior author of the study.
At the same time, the fasting group showed increased levels of a muscle protein that “is responsible for insulin-stimulated glucose transport in muscle and thus plays a pivotal role in regulation of insulin sensitivity,” Dr Hespel said.
In other words, working out before breakfast directly combated the two most detrimental effects of eating a high-fat, high-calorie diet. It also helped the men avoid gaining weight.”
Read the whole article here.
It’s always important to check with your doctor before making changes to your training or exercise routine.
There’s still time to register online for Sherwood’s premier Thanksgiving Day 5K Run/Walk and 10K Run!
We’ve extended online registration through Wednesday, November 16th!
The registered number of runners and walkers this year is capped at 2,000, so be sure to register before Thanksgiving morning to ensure you have a spot - plus if you register ahead of time, you can sleep in a little extra that morning!
Pre-Race Day Registration
10K Run - $30
5K Run/5K Walk - $25
Students - $15
Family Package (2 adults + up to 3 children) - $65
Prices for Same Day Registration are an extra $5 per category, so register early!
Don’t forget how important the Give n’ Gobble is…not only is it Sherwood’s best race, but more important, it’s a fundraiser and food drive for Helping Hands’ food bank. Proceeds from the Give n’ Gobble fund an entire year of Helping Hands expenses, enabling them to provide hundreds of needy families in our community with not only canned food and other nonperishable items but also dairy products and fresh fruits and vegetables.
Your participation in the Give n’ Gobble makes a difference in the lives of those less fortunate in Sherwood. Not only will your body thank you for the day of exercise, your heart will thank you for helping others!
