TRY Weekly Update -- Picnic info and award ceremony

Here is a google map link to help you on your way tonight:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=17043911612453586904,43.051654,-76.127857%3B86528553506501964,43.058745,-75.964594%3B11164750893332514861,43.062640,-76.061580&saddr=I-690+E+%4043.051654,+-76.127857&daddr=Green+Lakes+Park+Dr+%4043.058745,+-75.964594+to:43.061771,-76.061096&mra=dme&mrcr=1&mrsp=2&sz=15&sll=43.062617,-76.055603&sspn=0.013545,0.036907&ie=UTF8&ll=43.060015,-76.052728&spn=0.108365,0.295258&t=h&z=12

Point A is on 690 heading east, Point B is the parking lot to attempt to park in. (We'll TRY to get a picnic table in sight of that bathroom building in that parking lot). Point C is the meet-up place for people carpooling/caravaning with me. (The Bridge Street Walmart parking lot). My cell phone is 440-0397...call if you need help getting there or especially to find the group at the park.

Some of you have wanted to help pay for tonight. There is no need for that. The catering service has been great and is really cheap. They haven't even charged for labor and the food costs aren't any more expensive then if I had bought the stuff myself! If you still insist on paying, then know that any money paid tonight will start my fundraising for next years Relay For Life event. So, feel free to pay $.25 or $200...whatever you want to donate to Relay For Life. My fundraising starts now. What I would rather have you do though, if you want to give something back for this picnic, is to "Take a Moment to Try. Try to Give Back." You should remember the email I sent out for the Relay for Life where I was seeking emails on what random/quirky things people did in order to help out strangers or family members or friends or neighbors? Well, I sent that email to a ton of people...way over 50 for sure. I was hoping for 10 responses. I got 1. Needless to say that was very disappointing. One! That was a real let down to me. Obviously people do good deeds all the time, but couldn't be bothered to email me for my little project. So, if you want to pay me back or help me celebrate my birthday, "Take a Moment to Try. Try to Give Back." (I'm attempting to trademark that phrase...) Since I know all of you do nice things for people, I'm asking that you send an email saying one of those things in the next two weeks. mailto:thereisatry@gmail.com Thanks.

(Ideas: Throw a snack bar at a homeless man. Help your brother quit smoking. Give a big tip to the single mom waiting on you at Tully's to keep her off the poll. Whatever...have some fun with it...but make someones day a little brighter, unexpectedly. That's what I want. Take a Moment to Try. Try to Give Back!)

AWARDS:
Since we've completed another big group race, it's time for the prestigious awards ceremony. I'd like to give one to all who completed the Boilermaker, but if I reward everyone, then I reward no one, in a sense. So, honorary mention to the first time Boilermaker finishers: Mark, Katie, Susan, Jennifer, (Mike,) and Catherine. Great job! And an extra special super-duper job award to first time finishers who completed the longest race of their lives: Lori and Kristen and Timmy (and Mike?)! Excellent work guys and gals! But, there is only one official winner of the "I TRY Harder" Award for the 31st Annual Utica Boilermaker race -- Allyson Dunn. Why does she get the award? Because she has a perfectly symmetrical pair. (Of splits, that is.) How the heck did you manage that? You couldn't do that again if they were TRYing to! So, for finishing your first Boilermaker and for doing the impossible and clocking identical 10k and 15k split times, you get the coveted "I TRY Harder" Award. Congratulations Allyson! You were perfect. Or at least your times were...28:09 and 28:09...well Dunn, Allyson!

http://www.leonetiming.com/2008/Roads/Boilermaker/15kSplits.htm