I have been running for 11 years and it has always been a personal accomplishment upon completing a race. For the first time in my running career, when I run the VT Keybank Marathon on Memorial Day weekend in 6 weeks, it is going to be about something bigger than me. It is going to be about inspiration, community, and a city that I have grown to love over the last few years: Boston.
Sitting at work yesterday, watching the news unfold, was heartwrenching. Praying my friends running and celebrating were all safe and feeling the urgent need to just get home were all-consuming. Receiving texts and calls from family and friends to make sure I was okay made it hit even further home as I remember standing at the finish line last year watching the elite runner's finish. Living a few miles from where it happened and having to take half a dozen detours just to get to my house was surreal. Learning that an 8-year old was one of the casualties brought back Newtown and all of the tragedy that came with that. All in all, it was certainly a day I will never forget.
Over the past few months, I have been training for my first marathon and was doing it solely to say I had FINALLY done one. People have asked me numerous time if I was running for a cause or needed a sponsor and the answer was no. That all changed yesterday. When I run in 6 weeks in my original home of VT, I will be doing it for the place I now call home, and the victims of yesterday's tragic events.
With that said, I am asking for your help! Less than 6 weeks is not a lot of time to raise money and every penny will go to One Fund Boston to benefit the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. PLEASE DONATE- ANY AMOUNT WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!
"Boston is a tough and resilient town. So are it's people."
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