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Race Wrap-Up: Achilles Hope & Possibility 5 Miler

30, Jun 2009

Sunday’s Achilles 5-Miler in Central Park was different from a lot of recent races I’ve run… for plenty of reasons. I was “recruited” to run this race as part of a fundraising team, the TD Foundation www.tdfoundation.org. It wasn’t a race I would have planned on including in my schedule, but I’m really glad we did it (and extra glad I “recruited Lauren to join me). I think about all the hard work I put in to my racing… and then I look at the athletes with disabilities and it makes my own personal sacrifices seem almost trivial.

Achilles Hope & Possibility 5 Mile Central Park

Lauren and I ran this race together, and agreed we were going out there to have fun, no expectations. It felt really nice to go out and run a race without any of the pressure of setting a PR. Especially since I’m recovering from a slight ankle sprain, and this was my first day back running.

The organization of the race itself had a very different feel than many of the other NYRR races in Central Park. It was a little looser than some of the other events I’ve participated in lately. The pre-race instructions were unintelligible, as the sound system was not exactly working quite right. The front starting corrals, or rather 5, 6, and 7 minute-per-mile flags were set up to accommodate way more speedsters than were in the crowd. But the fact that it wasn’t that crowded made for a really fun race….

6/28 Achilles Hope & Possibility 5-Miler

10, Jun 2009

I need your help.

https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=234836&supId=258430466

I’m running the Achilles Hope & Possibility 5-Miler in Central Park on June 28th. This event brings together able-bodied runners and athletes with disabilities, many of whom are recent veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s sure to be an inspiring day.

td-foundation

www.TDfoundation.org

Here’s why I need your help. I am running for a team called the TD Foundation, founded by Iraq veteran Tom Deierlein. His foundation raises money for children in Iraq and Afghanistan, providing them with necessities like food, clothing and medicine. I need you to donate, which you can do here…

https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=234836&supId=258430466

Here is Tom’s story: Tom was activated in late 2005 to active duty military service after 12 years in the inactive reserves. While deployed as a Civil Affairs Officer focused on reconstruction, he reviewed the terrible conditions in Sadr City a slum of 2.3 million people in East Baghdad Iraq. The goal was to help children affected in war torn East Baghdad with basic life needs from shoes and clothes to school supplies and vitamins. After Tom was seriously shot in September of 2006, Sean Finnegan, Bill Flately, and Paul Bremer, advertising executives took the lead and started the Foundation with a fund raising kick off event at the Forbes Gallery in NYC in November 2006. Now that Tom is recovered and back in New York, the important works continues and grows. These innocent children are in desperate need of life’s most basic necessities.

Please consider making a small donation to this cause, $5 would be enough. Remember, I post all of this great content every week, ad free. I don’t ask for much, just the occaisional contribution to my fundraising activities! Here it is again:

https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=234836&supId=258430466

Thanks!

J


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