I almost said... speechless, but the following blog will say otherwise...
Dan Wood threw a victory party at Owen O'Leary's for us! He wanted to properly thank my colleagues for their generous support. And, I wanted to recognize the support provided to me. It was an absolute Blast!
Phew, it gives me chills - the sincere genorsity from everyone.
Dan and I celebrating our marathon victory! .
Dan is a VP at my company and received a marathon number through his running club. We enjoyed our weekly, sometimes daily checkins about marathon training. Today, we switched the conversation to disbelief in the encouragement from our colleagues. At our "victory party", I really wanted to thank everyone again for their support and figured I would probably be encouraged to speak again. For the last few weeks, I've reflected on my complete experience. I had the opportunity to raise funds for a worthy charity, to reach my marathon goal, and I've been blessed with friends and family supporting me all along the way.
Not only to my office of colleagues, but everyone, you should be very proud of your charitable contribution and support of me, take pride in yourself and recognize the importance for your choice to help others! I am mostly quoting from my good friend Jon Korhonean in this post. Most of my inspiration for diving into my marathon charity goal came from Jon's charity bike across the country. Thanks Jon!
Nothing significant in life is ever accomplished alone. I am blessed to have such wonderful people in my life.
Sincere humanity is alive and well. All my time and effort has been worth it to learn that great life lesson. Anything can be accomplished! And we reached $6500. Wear your medal with pride and remember you've helped!
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