View outside my hotel room…not too shabby. Headed over there tomorrow night for a closer view.
Some guy named Eiffel and his glorified erector set
The Louve…words can’t describe
Atlanta - Saturday 3/6 - 18-miles. Chastain Horse Park…the start of our 3+ hour trek through Atlanta area neighborhoods.
Pre-run direction and encouragement from Tommy whose dedication to Team In Training begain 21 years ago on February 17th when he lost his daugher Leslie to this disease 4 short months after diagnosis. Fast forward 21 years. Today, there are cure rates upwards of 90% and for some even 100%. Bone marrow databases exist and people can be matched with strangers who are an exact match. So much progress has been made and much of this progress is directly attributable to the funds raised by Team In Training. Folks, this is why we do this…
“The Silent Mile” - Our first mile today was run in complete silence in honor of those that have lost their fight to leukemia / lymphoma and for those that are with us and fighting. Here’s to you Big Pete, Mikey, Jill and many, many others…
Virginia, Gretchen (our fearless leader and birthday girl), Amy, someone so bundled up that I can’t tell who it is and Danny during “The Silent Mile”
Seemingly every stretch of road on this day was uphill