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Hi, my name is Peter Brown and I am the\u00a0Director\u00a0of\u00a0Systems Development at Quartix\u00a0Vehicle Tracking<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 This blog post\u00a0is to let people know that I will be running the\u00a0Chicago Marathon<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on the 11th October 2015\u00a0in aid of the\u00a0Make a Wish Foundation<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Back in 2010 I ran my \u2018last\u2019 marathon in a small event in Abingdon when I was younger, lighter and had more hair, well maybe I didn\u2019t have more hair but I was definitely 5 years younger and about a stone lighter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Quartix\u00a0Vehicle Tracking<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has a Sales and Support office in Chicago covering the whole of the\u00a0US, supplying\u00a0Fleet\u00a0Tracking<\/a>\u00a0devices to our customers and supporting their use of the online\u00a0Fleet Management Software<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0application. The Quartix\u00a0Vehicle Tracking Devices<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0are compact and lightweight, they need to be as I am planning on carrying one on the 26.2 mile run with me. \u00a0The\u00a0device is usually powered by the vehicle battery but hopefully something smaller than that will last the 4 hours I am expecting it to take me to complete the course. \u00a0The\u00a0Chicago Marathon<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0starts and ends in Grant Park and takes tens of thousands of runners through 29 neighbourhoods in front of 1.7 million spectators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Quartix\u00a0Vehicle Tracking Device<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0works\u00a0over the mobile phone network to send Vehicle Tracking data to the\u00a0Fleet Management System<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that we develop and support end to end. \u00a0By setting\u00a0up\u00a0the\u00a0device\u00a0I will be carrying\u00a0the system and I will appear on the Quartix online web application probably as one of the slowest vehicles the system has ever reported on.\u00a0 \u00a0I doubt I will get up sufficient speed to register a\u00a0Driving Style<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0score let alone an incident alert, but there may be a few stop events especially towards the end.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Briefly the Make a Wish Foundation<\/a><\/strong> grants magical wishes to children with life threatening conditions around the world.  I have set up a fundraising page using the Virgin Money Giving Site<\/strong> <\/a>and would be very grateful for any sponsorship and support:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/uk.virginmoneygiving.com\/fundraiser-web\/fundraiser\/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=PeterBrown320<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If anyone from the US would like to contribute I have also set up a page on the Make a Wish Foundation<\/a><\/strong> site there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/site.wish.org\/site\/TR\/FriendsandFamily\/Make-A-WishIllinois?px=2983642&pg=personal&fr_id=1581<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading this, there will be a post race post to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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