Duerr, I have contacted our finance department and they will be refunding your prorated membership fee for last week so that you can, hopefully, continue to get full value from your TRY membership.
Now for this weeks post:
NEXT week is the Chase Corporate Challenge at the park so there will be no traditional TRY meetup on June 7th. But we have a tradition of meeting up a little early, getting an optional jog in, and then going out on the course about 1/4 to 1/2 a mile and cheering on any and everyone we can see go by that we know that are doing the race. So, non-racers, get in touch with me if you would like to be a part of that effort.
This week - mid 70s and sunny, so should be a perfect night. Come on out and enjoy a slight break from this weekends heat wave.
This coming Saturday is the 20th annual Paige's Butterfly Run. We have one centipede division team running this year and hopefully a couple individual race runners. I'll be in touch with meet-up plans, but you can plan for a full morning: An early morning meet-up, running the race, kids caterpillar crawl, open walk 3k? event, award ceremony, and then a quick group pass through the Taste of Syracuse before it gets super busy.
While I really enjoy the event and hopefully everyone else does as well, I want to make sure people think about it a bit deeper this year on the 20th running of the race... Paige would have turned 30 this year. And with our very own Escalade having turned 30 just a few months ago it is very easy to guess at what Paige might be doing if she was around...celebrating a dating anniversary with her fiance, planning a wedding location and working up a guest list, and figuring out future living arrangements... It really is heart crushing if you think about it. Instead of all the fun stuff that most women get to do around the age of 30, there have been 22 empty years since Paige's untimely death. Well, not empty certainly, since her passing inspired this amazing event that has raised a ton of money over the years.
For all you TRYers that take part in Paige's this Saturday, please take some time to appreciate that our special connection with the event is a SPECIAL thing. Sure, the centipede thing gets a bit silly at times and we certainly have fun with it. But the event appreciates and returns that joy and has used us (mostly Malinda and Kelly) many times through fun photos. From being "cover girls" on the Syracuse paper to being the photo of the day for a weekend online, to being used as a whole team of "Band on the Run" in last years Fleet Feet newsletter's mention of the race - TRY has stumbled into a bit of a celebrity entity for this event. And I do not take that honor lightly. So please join me in embracing our role and putting on your best paparazzi smile for a few hours Saturday morning.
Lastly, an over due congratulations to Malinda for completing her first "hymon" two Sundays ago. She took part in the first running of the "Erie Canal Half Marathon" in Utica on the 22nd. Just from the name I can guess that the race was 17% "C" and 83% "anal", but I'll leave it up to Malinda to confirm my in-depth "anal-ysis". She took to the canal run like a mule named Sal would...to the point of finishing 3rd in her age group (assumingly losing to one neighbor and one pal). Congratulations Malinda! (And great job avoiding those low bridges.) Unrelated question: who else had to learn the Erie Canal song while in school? For some reason, that song has always been stuck somewhere in the recesses of my brain.
Pictured - Neighbor, pal, and Sal:
(Yes, we also have a TRYer that whooped a deer AND a trail marathon this past weekend, but I'm saving that story for a full treatment during a future week. So no need for any prima-Donna's to be offended that I missed something.)
I think that is all I have...saving some sillier stuff for next weeks "off" week.
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