We thought we were sitting down to just relax and watch some college basketball. Boy, were we wrong! We were watching the tournament to benefit the Jimmy V foundation for cancer research. They showed his speech at the ESPY's in 1993 which I have never seen before. With all the involvement that we have had with Team in Training, and all the inspirational speeches from those who were affected by cancer, it just seems that now, this powerful speech meant too much to us now as we have a close friend who just lost her father to lung cancer. Jimmy V said a few things that I will restate. He said, in order to live a complete life, you should laugh, think, and show emotion every day. He said that cancer could not ever touch his heart, his sole, or his mind. And he said, "Don't give up, don't ever give up!" WOW!
It is Ironman eve and everything is going great! We are sitting here in our hotel room of Fairfield Inn and they have wireless internet in the rooms so I'm typing on my laptop. Dustin's shaving, Dave is drinking a beer, Jeff and Jen are being assigned duties, Paula, Kendra's sister is getting last minute tips for cheering from Kendra. Now Jeff, Jen, and Dave's pizza just got here. Kendra, Dustin and I already ate our microwaved pasta about 6 PM, while we hung out by the indoor pool with some of the kids from our group. By group, I mean the best freakin cheer squad ever!!!! We had our lunch at Panera bread earlier at 12 and met up with most of Dustin's family and my parents old friends' Greg and Mary who they hadn't seen in 10 years and their daughter, Nikki who lives here in Madison who we grew up together! She is going to be a part of our cheering squad tomorrow along with Bill, Gwen, Jeff, Dave, Jen, Walt, Judy, Becky, Ken, Don, Carolyn, Shelley, Braxton, ...
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