Funding someone's hobby? Money for Ironman, but not Boston? Confused.

Isn't GoFund Me for people who actually need money? Or people with cancer or some type of deadly health issue? Or a man that walks 21 miles a day and needs a car..... Just sayin. Not sure what her hardship is either.

Freakin hobby joggers, when will they learn?

This sounds like a trend that started with Team in Training only without the charity slant. So little of the donations to Team in Training went to the charitable cause that you basically were funding people's hobby or vacation with your donation.

I just looked at the site and it appears that you can setup a gofundme account for just about anything. Go for it.

Haji wrote:

This sounds like a trend that started with Team in Training only without the charity slant. So little of the donations to Team in Training went to the charitable cause that you basically were funding people's hobby or vacation with your donation.

I just looked at the site and it appears that you can setup a gofundme account for just about anything. Go for it.

Nice point! So basically we should at least give these "GoFunders" some credit for dropping the pretense that they are trying to do good for someone else/society (like some of the Team in Training types), and they are coming out and simply saying: hey, anyway feel like giving me $ so I can do something selfish and useless to society?

People like this are complete losers. Everyone should ignore her.

"I am a woman who believes in setting goals, reaching them, and raising the bar to chase my dreams"

(...especially if it's on someone else's nickel)

Will she pay taxes on this? what happened to working hard and saving your money? If you can't afford something, then don't buy it - everyone knows this!

She is a single mother with four kids who works in early childhood education. She ran a 3:24 at Boston and is 40. She comes from a very poor part of Arizona. Why should only rich folk get to run Boston? Why not give this lady a few bucks to get her to the race? She is only asking for $1,500 (probably covers plane and hotel).

I dropped out of high school and now work part time flipping burgers. Please donate money so I can buy a corvette. Why should only rich people get to drive corvettes?

I just googled the name, this is like her 4th GoFundMe request. man, must be nice to have people pay for all your gear and race entry fees. smart woman - she is using her hopi background to get the edge over all the other gofundme people trying to get handouts too.

I can't do it. I appreciate that she may struggle with raising her kids as a single mom, but there are millions of people like that here in the United States and people WAAAAAAAAAY worse off in other parts of the world.

Helping a stranger fund a trip to go run in a marathon FOR FUN is not where my money can go.

Save your money. There are way too many other deserving runners out there. And she already used gofundme to send her to Boston, LAST YEAR! She needs to get a better paying job or a less expensive hobby.

Looks like she just ran 1:28 for the half. So she is a good runner for her age. What's the big deal about the Boston Marathon anyway? She already ran it, and there are a lot nicer and scenic marathons out there anyways.

nobody here seems to care when someone who stole a buttload of money through organized crime like mitt romney or every kennedy goes around begging for contributions to fund their insane desires to be elected. why can't they use the money from their Swiss bank accounts?

It never hurts to ask and some people enjoy giving. Yeah, it's bad form to go about things this way but a lot of people really couldn't give a flip about form. And no, gifts are not taxable as income (as opposed to prizes).

Precious Roy wrote:

She is a single mother with four kids who works in early childhood education. She ran a 3:24 at Boston and is 40. She comes from a very poor part of Arizona. Why should only rich folk get to run Boston? Why not give this lady a few bucks to get her to the race? She is only asking for $1,500 (probably covers plane and hotel).

LOL. Political Correctness at work. No doubt if a white person were doing this you'd go batsh*t crazy. LOL. Of course you'll deny it because it's true.

Selling her bike that she used in IronMan will more than cover the $1,500 she is begging for. Of courts, she can also get a Persian boyfriend like I did and have him pay for all racing related costs. Read all about me on my blog. I was selected as one of the very fastest, most frequent marathon runners in the country.

Hell, I'm going to copy this lady's attempt, maybe rip off some of the wording and set up a gofundme account...make up a true sob story and see who bites. Why the hell not? She is a genius.

Don't give her any money. Problem solved.

Next?

You can't control what she asks for, she can't control what anyone gives. So just give up trying to control everything around you and let people do their thing.