Birthday Run

As posted on the HURT site.

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On Friday November 9, health permitting, I will be heading out on another birthday run.   Last year I let the Peacock 100 function the dual purpose of race and birthday run. This year’s Tsunami edition limits my ability to revisit that artifice, and I find myself forced to actually run a birthday run, which is, to my understanding, beyond 100K yet not quite 100M.    

This run, as many of my past long runs will have a charity component. I have chosen to remember a long time friend and participant in our group, Pete Martinez, and to make a donation to a Suicide Prevention program in his memory. It is not particularly easy to find a specific local charity that serves this issue, but there are a few national charities that support local activity and direct funds into numerous needy areas such as Veterans Hotlines. I’ve chosen one that attempts to reach people within the broad parameters of our group demographic and also appears to limit its fundraising and administration in favor of a more lowkey ‘funds to the line’ approach.  

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