A special note of congratulations to Matt who completed his first marathon on Sunday in Ro-cha-cha. Congratulations! Matt has REALLY upped his running game this year and has capped off his hard work with 26.2 smile filled miles. (I'm assuming based on his big grin near the finish.)
Awesome work this year Matt! Consider me impressed by all the time and effort you have put in.
Since I did fool some of you, I want to clarify last weeks "deception". The key line I wrote was "... Malinda Greene who has ran with TRY for her last time". Many of you saw through my word play, but some of you did not (understandably, since you trust me so deeply). The key to have known was that Malinda and Drew were getting married over the weekend, so Malinda GREENE will not be returning to TRY. I fully expect Mrs. BUTLER to show up in a couple weeks and pick up where Miss Greene left off. (So, "for better or worse", you have not seen the last of Malinda, just the last of her maiden name on race results.)
Since there were strong TRY tie-ins, I'll bore you with some of their wedding details...
It came to be that on a Friday afternoon on the 18th of September, in a sun splashed garden, that the handsome groom stood and waited for his beautiful bride to be, to get escorted down a garden path.
As she walked in there was a hint of tears and some obvious nerves -- on me that is -- Drew and Malinda and her father all seemed unreasonably at ease for the occasion. I'm sure the world has seen cuter couples stand before the altar, but in my own experiences I may have seen their match but cannot think of any that exceeded them? (Excepting me and my first wife, of course. But I'm trying to be unbiased here.)
They chose to honor me with doing the second reading which was on the "Foundations of Marriage". (Wisely choosing to not allow me to write my own words! I'm pretty sure I could have come up with one heck of limerick about 'There once was a wedding in Verona' however? I guess the world will never know?) It would be a bit of a stretch to say that I was representing all of TRY by doing the reading, but there is a thread you could pull that would unravel things so far that it could be said that the wedding would not have happened without TRY and the connections that were made through it. (The bride would surely counter that "fate" would have found another way for them to have found each other. Which I will allow is very possible, and that may indeed have happened, but will also say that all we know for sure is what did happen and that the roots of their meeting go back to the second year of TRY - a full year before they would eventually meet and go all goo-goo for each other.) Going further into the mushy-mushy stuff, I know this group has meant a lot to Malinda over the years and that it did help her bond and connect with the Syracuse area when she was still relatively new to it. Some of those thoughts went through my mind throughout the evening thinking about just how tenuous friendships and even love connections can be and just how unlikely the chain of events are that lead to someone finding their forever friend. A teaspoon of the right timing, a dash of availability, and a pinch of chemistry is all it takes for love to take flight.
The reception hall (at the Dibbles Inn) was thankfully strongly air conditioned and was tastefully decorated in an Adirondack and woodsy theme including the tables being named and personalized with names and pictures of some of the high peaks that the couple have hiked together. It was all a bit too "Pinterest-perfect" in a way that makes you want to strangle them and slap them in the face for making everyone else look bad. (The world would like to thank you for raising the bar to a near unreachable level, you douche-nozzles!) All-in-all it was a day and a wedding to be proud of and a memory I'm sure they will cherish for a lifetime. Well done you two! :-)
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