According to the Boston Marathon's Official Page there has been a charity set up for the victims of last week's bombing, The One Fund.
Please consider donating.
Also please don't let this affect attendance at our race next week. The Memorial Marathon is a week from today. It would be a shame to not show up and cheer on all the great people that trained and raised money for the memorial or the host of other charities that get pledges for training people for this race. I'm hoping to get down there next week to see a couple of my friends finish the half.
It was such a wonderful experience to cheer people on the last two years. I worked a water stop year before last and biked a few miles cheering on a good friend on course last year (Shhh... technically a big no no), but I've never gone to the finish. Quite honestly, I've never been to the Memorial. As a kid when the Murrah building was bombed it was hard to watch it all unfold on tv. It was constant coverage day after day after week. I've never felt the desire to visit the memorial even after becoming good friends with a survivor, but something changed after last week. Now, I want to. I also want to qualify for the Boston Marathon.
A few of my friends went to Boston last year which peeked my interest. I remembered looking at the qualifying times and then moving on to other things. I couldn't remember why I only gave it a fleeting glance. I looked at the qualifying times again today..... oh, that's why. I remember now. I decided it would go on the bucket list because there was NO way I would be able to qualify for my age group. I'll have to wait for when the expectations are lower. I want to do it though. I would hate to see attendance for a great race slump due to this.
Best of luck to my running peeps next week! Have a great race and hopefully I'll see some of you at the finish!
Maybe I'll even get to cheer some of those who didn't get to finish the Boston race.
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