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Peak Performance Women Pull for Charity

So a few Saturday's ago we hosted a charity training session at Okanagan Peak Performance. The goal was to raise funds for a team of women we work with that is competing in the Pull the Plane Challenge. And while it may seem weird to state these ladies are competing in this charity event this is no mistake. These women aren't entering this event just to take part. When I mentioned the winning time from previous year's was 9-11 seconds their reply was 'we'll do it in 8!' Right on! I love that answer! But back to the fundraiser. We managed to raise $700 in a one hour training session. And many of you that weren't able to participate still were very generous to donate to this cause. In addition to the $700 raised from the training sessions I know Ric's Grill Restaurants, a Kettle Valley business and Dairy Queen (Gorges family) all made sizeable donations as well. So needless to say, in addition to the forth coming effort to actually pull the plane there will be a large donation being made for this cause. And on this Friday, May 11 these 12 ladies are going to pull the plane. They've even got costumes. I know they got shirts from Big Kahuna because Megan keeps me in the loop on these types of things. But I didn't know about the tutus! And apparatently they bought 13. I wasn't too sure what the extra one is for until I realized that I am leading the warm-ups for all the teams competing in this event... So that got me thinking about what I will do with these teams to get them ready. Because I will have all of about 3 minutes to meet them, warm them up and then send them over to pull the...

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