JoshKaptur - 2011-06-22 5:37 PM
Aw shucks you guys... is this some sort of last minute conspiracy to make me slap down the plastic and get on that plane?!?!?! Truth be told you guys did the hard work while I sat here and played arm-chair QB. I guess that's allowed when you've actually been a semi-successful QB in a former life, so I'm glad most of you didn't mind (I seem to recall rufflin' a few feathers).
It was 100% the right thing for me to drop out of this race and focus on some non-sports health issues, and my life is more balanced and I'm overall more healthy today because of it, despite being a few pounds heavier... plus seeing that shrink every week this whole year made even IM NYC look cheap! But requesting that [partial] refund didn't exactly feel good (I'm told the right thing rarely does), and I've been living vicariously through the HB badazznezz in this thread so evidently displayed by you all.
In fact, I owe you guys some thanks because this was an experiment in "giving back" which I am trying to do in a number of areas of my life where in the past it had become dangerously overly self-involved (unofficial BT IMCdA coach, volunteering at a substance abuse recovery group, etc, driving someone to/from harrisburg/baltimore for an every-other-week appointment they otherwise couldn't make, etc)... and you guys made it easy and enjoyable. So thanks for helping me along my own journey, even if lining up on the start line wasn't part of it this year. I have little doubt that someday soon I'll be racing along side of a few of you somewhere.
Group hug (always dangerous with a bunch of HBs).
Make no mistake -- you'll be doing the race this year. You'll be with me the whole way. Thanks for everything Josh! Give me a shout if you ever head out to Boulder. Best to you, Cam.