And They're Off!

My first kickoff as a Captain was fun. I ushered; specifically, I greeted and told people coming in the side door where to go check in or register. It was the same spiel over and over again. I'm now well qualified to don a blue vest and be a greeter at Walmart. What made it fun (besides seeing couple of former TNT teammates) was talking with Ed, my co-greeter. Ed is a coach on the Cycle team, a medical researcher with three drugs in the approval pipeline, an Honoree (blood cancer survivor), and an amputee missing his lower left leg. Did I mention he's a coach on the Cycle team, as in bicycling 100 miles around Lake Tahoe in June? So talking with Ed was quite interesting, of course. But it was also a reminder that while I'm sacrificing some time with my family to fundraise, help others train, and train myself, I have it pretty easy.