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Welcome To Darin & Andy’s Adventures!

First of all who are we? We are two of the Co-Creators of the Kids Bowl Free bowling program. You’ll be able to learn more about us as we continue to develop this page and the Kids Bowl Free Clubhouse. You can see our Bio’s at the bottom of this page.

Andy and I are going to share some of the fun things that we like to do with you and your family. Some of our adventures you will actually be able to participate along with us. We’ll post a video our helicopter ride down the Las Vegas Strip from June of 2009 as our 1st adventure. We went on this helicopter ride during Bowl Expo (the industry trade show for bowling). It was a lot of fun!

Our 1st Big Adventure that you can participate in along with us will be the running of the ING Miami 1/2 Marathon. You probably won’t be able to be with us in Miami, but you’ll be able to train along with us. However if you do live in Florida and would like to join us you’re more than welcome to. We’ll be posting our training schedule, results and more on this page. We want your family to participate along with us.

This will be a great way for all of us to keep our New Years resolutions. You can post comments that include your daily exercise as a family, picture and more. Even if it’s on the WII Fit!

We’re also running the 1/2 Marathon as a fundraiser for The Olivia Davis Foundation. A foundation that Darin helped to start last year. You can read more about the foundation on the Olivia Davis Foundation page of this site.

Keep Your New Years Resolution By Training With Us & Helping A Great Cause. Click Here To Make A Contribution To Our Run. Our Goal is to raise $100,000.00. If your family makes a minimum $20 donation we’ll post your family last name, city and state on this page. Please share this opportunity with as many friends and family members as possible.

Thanks For Being A Member Of Kids Bowl Free…Let’s Get Started!

Darin: Starting in early December 2009 we were casually talking about the 1/2 marathon.  Then I thought to myself how can we turn this into a great opportunity to help lots of families in need, make a commitment to staying healthy and also teach children some family value lessons.

The goal of the Kids Bowl Free Clubhouse is to provide additional coupons, discount and offers to families, but more importantly provide information about family values, family health, family dental and more.  So as I started to think about the Marathon it seemed like a perfect opportunity to get started.

Here’s A Great Way To Keep Commit To Your New Year’s Resolution & Help Out Lots Of Children Too!

We are going to run in the marathon as a fundraiser for The Olivia Davis Foundation.  You can read more about the foundation on the Olivia Davis Foundation page of this website.

Contribute a minimum of $20 and we’ll post your families last name, city and state on our Darin & Andy’s Adventure Page.  You can help us out, get healthy and teach your children a few valuable lessons at the same time.

We need your help because we have set a goal of raising $100,000.00 in a single day!

After I committed to running even though I hadn’t run a single mile in many years, I started to wonder what I had just done.  Shortly after that I was watching the Biggest Loser on TV.  Some of the contestants were over 500 lbs and they actually just completed a FULL marathon…so I started to worry about me not finishing.   So I got busy planning out how I could finish this 1/2 Marathon. Below are the actions I took:

Step 1 – Told a bunch of friends and family members
Step 2 – Told a 1/2 Million Families online about the attempt.  These are families that joined our Kids Bowl Free program.  We’re actually going to allow families to train with us online.  It should be fun.
Step 3 – Started running on the treadmill at the YMCA
Step 4 – Started asking questions at General Nutrition Centers (GNC) and got on a vitamin and protein shake plan to build muscle and stamina. Went to the running specialty store and got some tips on training from some guys who’ve done this before.  They sold me some socks that keep your feet from blistering and help your feet breathe.   They also sold me some “racing” shoes.
Step 5 – Kind of on accident the Barista at the Starbucks told me that she was a personal trainer after I had told her about the Marathon.  Now I have a personal trainer working on helping me lift weights, etc.
Step 6 – Complete the race and raise a whole bunch of money for The Olivia Davis Foundation. (Click Here To Help Out)

On day one of training I had a tough time getting to one mile in 12 minutes, less than a month ago.  I’m now 30 days from the race and up to 6 Miles in under an hour on the treadmill.  My goal was to complete the 13.1 Miles in under 2.5 hours before I started training.  The goal is within site.

Here’s My Recent Training Schedule:

December 25th – Ran 4 Miles on Treadmill in 43 Minutes.  Walked some of it as I was talking with my personal trainer. You can help us out, get healthy and teach your children a few valuable lessons at the same time.
December 26th – Worked out for 50 minutes on our elliptical at home.  Some on level 1 and some on level 2.  Our elliptical’s level 1 is like level 6 or 7 at the YMCA, not sure why?
December 27th – Ran 4 Miles on the Treadmill at the YMCA. Finished just in time for the Green Bay Packer game, we crushed the Seattle Seahawks and secured a Wild Card Play Off spot.
December 28th – Worked out for 50 Minutes on our elliptical at home.  Mostly on level 2.
December 29th – Ran 5 Miles in 47 minutes on the Treadmill at the Y.
December 30th - Lifted weights for the 1st time in 15 years with my personal trainer.  She actually said that I wasn’t “The Worst She’s Ever Seen”!  Woke up today (Dec. 31) not too sore.
December 31st – 5.5 Miles on the Elliptical at home. 50 minutes.
January 1st – Ran 4.25 Miles on the Treadmill at the Y.
January 2nd – Ran 3.5 Miles at the Y
January 3rd - Had great intentions of running 8 miles, but with all the new years resolutions my normal Y didn’t have a single machine open.  Drove across town to find much of the same.  Got in 5.1 Miles in my “racing shoes” before I was removed by one of the “friendly” staff members.
January 4th - Lifted a few weights and ran 1.5 miles (too much work and too many new people at the gym).

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Darin & Andy’s Las Vegas Adventure

A Cool Tour Of Las Vegas.  Powered by PubClip

Just Before Take Off (Above)

Andy All Set To Fly (Above)

Darin Ready To Go! (Above)

Darin’s Bio

My Daughter Presley & I

I am 31 years old, live in Green Bay, WI (the Frozen Tundra). My family has owned and operated small local businesses since before I was born. My grandfather owned a General Store, Bar and Feed Mill in a town of about 300 people. My mom and dad built a small 8 lane bowling alley the year before I was born. I got my start in business picking up the trash in the parking lot of the bowling alley. At age 15 I started my own mobile DJ service and continued that through High School. After High School I moved to live with my mom (my parents are divorced) and started working for a chain of bowling alley’s in Green Bay, WI.  I worked at these two bowling alley’s for about 8 years and eventually became a partner.  About 4 years ago I went out on my own doing marketing consulting to bowling centers. Over the past 2 years I have been creating a bunch of online marketing systems for Local Business owners.

I have a 5 year old daughter named Presley. She was named in part after her mothers love of Elvis Presley. Presley is in 4K this year and looking forward to Kindergarten next September.