GREENSBORO, N.C. — In little more than a month's time, North Carolina's "Little Guy" team of credit union runners is ready to do it again for the sake of charity. They will participate in the grueling, 208-mile Blue Ridge Relay Race, with all of the pretraining and coaching carefully documented and blogged.
"We're ready for this one," said a primed Esteve Coll-Larossa, business development marketing manager at United Services CU in Asheville and one of the members of the 12-man Little Guy team composed of a diverse group of executives and CU members all of whom will be wearying Little Guy T-shirts ahead of a truck emblazoned with CUNA's cartoon caricature.
The plan, said organizers, is to raise $100,000 to $30,000 more than last year in pledged donations from CUs, members and volunteers in North and South Carolina on behalf of the Carolinas Credit Union Foundation. Funds raised will be designated for the Micro Community Grant program aimed at helping needy groups in the two states.
The two-day race, scheduled Sept. 5-6 is one of the longest running relay races in the U.S. stretching through rugged Virginia and North Carolina terrain and is expected to have more than 50 corporate relay teams with the CU Little Guy hoping to best its 30-hour time of last year.
"We'll do it for sure," forecast Coll-Larossa, who will be joining in the race by top staffers from the North Carolina League, including John C. Radebaugh, its president/CEO.
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