These events have been on the TRY calendar for weeks and weeks now and most of you have been getting contacted about this stuff from me or from others in various forms, but I still wanted to put a summary blog entry together to make sure everyone knows when these events are and to start to get our balls rolling. I've really enjoyed how TRY has been a part of these events and I appreciate all the help you guys and girls have given me with them over the past 2-4 years!
Making Tracks For Celiacs
Next Saturday (the 12th). They are looking for participants and volunteers. It's small, its delightfully disorganized (honestly, don't you get sick of the polish of Komen-like events?), and it's at a park that doesn't often get sought out -- Jamesville Beach. It's also a perfect place to twist an ankle and spoil the rest of your summer running! Who doesn't want to be a part of this?!! :-)
Enough of you have experienced it at least one of the last two years, so I feel I don't need to go into detail. For those who want details, please let me know.
The event website.
The team website.
It's free for LM employees to join in the fun - just make sure you go through me and don't sign up directly, yourself. It's not free for non-LM employees to join -- but, of course, you could get your company to pay your way if you want to, so stop your whining. (This "for free" option didn't just happen. I have to put work and time into it every year.)
For those of you who can't participate but want to support the cause, please donate to your favorite participant through the team website above. Even if, for some reason, your favorite participant isn't me. :-/
Paige's Butterfly Run
Saturday June 2nd. Actually, I need to get in direct contact with my centipede team members about this. Not much to share with the rest of the group other than, please consider joining in this race. They do a good job with it, it's a great cause, and I'm really impressed by the back story. For Paige's parents and teachers and friends to turn her death into such an ongoing legacy (having raised well over a million dollars now) is impressive and humbling. (I don't think I would have been able to find the strength to do it, if I were in their shoes.) Plus, we are sort of establishing a post race tradition of chilling out long enough for The Taste of Syracuse to begin. It's a great time to be there, because, you can actually move around. And you can actually taste Syracuse without waiting in long lines. And Syracuse tastes really, really good! I think it might be the orange zest? It's sooooo much more enjoyable than being there in the crowds at night, that I can't recommend it enough. You are never more than two minutes away from your next "bacon bomb", and really, how can that not be a good thing? You can always go back at night if you enjoy DATBs and TATFs. (Admittedly, I do enjoy the second of those. A LOT.)
Something else to consider - we have plenty of TRY members - why do we only have one centipede team in this event? Obviously, I can't "lead" up more than one (and by lead up, I mean slow down), but I fully encourage people who have seen us or heard about us doing this and have thought it seemed like fun to join in: It is fun. It is random. And the more, the merrier. You don't need to be as fast as the Centipediatricians have been. You could be faster. You could be slower. That division is about a different race-day experience, not about the clock.
Relay For Life.
Friday June 15th into Saturday June 16th.
Big announcement time: I am pulling the plug on the "run the entire time" concept. I think it has (fittingly) run it's course.
But, I'm still looking for teammates. And teammates that want to run. But I am not going into this planning on booking the full 12 hour window. If enough people sign up that it's obvious we could cover it, then I'll readjust accordingly. But for now the plan is to run when people want to run - certainly at the start and after dark and to spread that out some just for the fun of it - but during the wee hours of the night, I plan to interact with the main team up the hill more as I think that will be more fun than forcing something that is starting to feel forced. And we can stop completely and all do more with the luminary ceremony and other portions of the event, so I see this as a step forward and not a step backward. Seriously.
I am getting more involved in event set-up this year, so if you are done early on Fridays and want to join in with me earlier in the day on the 15th, I'll be there all day. Not sure what all is involved (setting up lights, cords, and ??), but I've heard that some retirement age people are doing most of the grunt work and I've offered to provide some "youth" and strength to them as long as they don't mind telling me exactly what to do.
The team website is up and ready for sign-ups. Feel free to join once you know you are participating.
Almond coconut “crack”aroons
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2 comments:
He said balls! *snicker*
Yes as far as that Centipede team...we need to start preparing for that! :) Can't wait! :)
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