Team Transplant, UWMC

Thanks to everyone who helped out at the finishline….James, Ida, Jason Stahl, Colin Rines…Knowing you all were there to make sure everyone got across the finishline in one piece was huge!   It’s so nice to have someone around after a race, to acknowledge your accomplishment and to care about how you did…To be honest, I can’t imagine a more enthusiastic, welcoming bunch!  Thanks so much for be willing to get up early (or perhaps you never went to bed?), come downtown, sit around in the QWEST Field parking lot for 6 hours, and then fight traffic afterwards to get home.  Hopefully we’ll get to see you taking your turn out on the race course very soon!

Thanks to Julie Sprinkle for the GREEN balloons!  Next time I’ll know to pick a meeting location that isn’t right at the shuttle drop-off and port-a-potty lines!

Let’s hear it for everyone who helped with the post-race BBQ…Lenore Miller, Jennifer Herlihy, Susan Bussell, Ida and James, and Janette Morantes all showed up at my house on Friday afternoon to help with some last-minute yardwork and set up tables and service lines… I know Mark Rosinbum, Jennifer H., Tami Sadusky, Harch Ooi, Lenard Yen, Julie Sprinkle, Lenore M., Susan Bussell, Janette, and Diane Vetres all brought items to share at the BBQ…Diane V., Tess Brown, Siobhan Ginnane, and Laura Lewis all helped with clean up…I’m sure I’ve missed people…just know if I did, your help was greatly appreciated…It was a crazy long day and some of the details are blurry!

Special thanks to Janette for spending her post-race recovery time grilling hamburgers and veggie burgers for us!  She did an awesome job…The burgers were wonderful…much better than you would’ve gotten from me…though I’m sure she had to rely on a few packets of GU to pull it off!