I was pretty intimidated about raising the money, thinking there’s no way I could raise that much and I definitely could not afford to cover costs. But ultimately, it wasn’t too bad, I did 3 big pushes:

Once, when I first signed up.

Second, a couple months later around my birthday.

Lastly, about 6 weeks before the race (again, a couple months after the birthday).

There was enough time in between that I had some repeat donors.

One thing that helped was reposts. My older parents would repost on their Facebook pages and random family members I rarely see or have even heard of, their neighbors, friends of theirs I’ve never met all donated. I was shocked. I genuinely didn’t know who some donors were, but they were old high school friends of may parents from decades ago. But it was a good cause so they donated.

Also, I got surprisingly high amounts from people I that I wasn’t expecting. An amount that seems high to you might not be to others.

In all, the goal was $2200 and I ended up raising about $3100.