Volunteering and Fun Race Opportunity on Saturday

For the life of me, I can't figure out why people keep telling me about the Mad Cow 5K coming up on Saturday morning? But they do. But they do.

Due to continued references to the race, I looked into it and it sounds like a hoof-stomping good time. It's a rather small race (about 150 people last year) and is a fund raiser for the Madison County Community Action Partnership. The race is in Nelson, just a bit east of Cazenovia.

I called around and found out that they do not have any cow bells for sale or for giving! That just doesn't seem right. Considering that I'm just an individual person, who does not have a race named after cows, and I have over 200 bells! In order to right this wrong, I offered my bells for their race and they accepted. (There is no beating my bells!) So, on Saturday morning I will be selling my various cow bells. At a minimum it should make the race more entertaining and they agreed to split the proceeds. So, half of the sales will be donated to their CAP and half of the sales I'll be able to donate to the American Cancer Society.

I'm looking for a willing assistant or two. I have one extra cow hat for someone to wear. Depending on if I have help or not, I'll be running in the race in my Boilermaker cow costume. But at a minimum I'll be ringing bells and attempting to make the morning more fun. I will be there by 7 but the race doesn't start until 9. Registration closes at 8:30 and is $25.

Please let me know if you would like to help (or if you will be there running). For those of you who did the Relay For Life this year and want to bring your fancy bells to cheer people on...that would be great too. There would be no more appropriate race for those bells. And they aren't going to ring themselves.

Race link.

The hat and bells:

P.S. For those who haven't seen or heard of my bell sales, please let me know if you would like to buy any. (The bells were donated by an anonymous philanthropist, so all $5 get donated to ACS for general sales.)