A RUN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD, FOR CHILDREN.Byline: - Nicole Sunkes For the past 20 years, Larry Meyer has raised thousands of dollars for the Blind Children's Center in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . On Saturday, the Glendale man will continue his winning ways when he straps on his trail running shoes for the seventh Antarctica Marathon and Half Marathon A half marathon is a road running event of 21,097.5 meters, or 13 7/64 miles, about 13.1 miles. It is half the distance of a marathon and usually run on roads. . The 26-mile-long trek on the remote, frozen continent will take him past icebergs, penguins, seals and whales whales - like kicking dead whales down the beach . ``(Running in the Antarctica Marathon) is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,'' said Meyer, an estate planning Estate Planning The overall planning of a person's wealth, including the preparation of a will and the planning of taxes after the individual's death. Notes: Contrary to popular belief, estate planning involves much more than preparing a will, and it is not only for the attorney. ``I'm really using it to contact everybody I know to support me with pledges to the Blind Children's Center. The response has been fantastic.'' This will be the 40th marathon for Meyer, who has raised about $24,000 for the center by running in long-distance races over the past two decades. His fund-raising goal for this run is $8,000. The Antarctica Marathon represents a unique challenge for the 57-year- old. ``One of the things I decided to do is to try and run a marathon on every continent,'' said Meyer, who has done so in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Australia, Europe and now Antarctica. ``Every two years, they have the Antarctica Marathon, so I figured before I got too old I better try it.'' Meyer began volunteering at the center about 20 years when he was asked to create a fund-raising program for the agency, which provides preschool and therapy for blind and partially blind children ages 6 months to 5 years. Because so much of what people do is learned by sight, children at the center are taught basic skills, such as how to smile, to crawl To search the Internet for hosts, Web pages or blogs. See crawler. and to chew chew Chewing tobacco. See Smokeless tobacco. . The center is funded exclusively with private donations and all services are provided free of charge. To make a pledge for Meyer's run or to donate to the Blind Children's Center, call Laurie Headley at (323) 664-2153. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: ``One of the things I decided to do is to try and run a marathon on every continent,'' says Larry Meyer, who will run in Saturday's Antarctica Marathon and Half Marathon to raise funds for the Blind Children's Center in L.A. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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