Subject: RE: Any Original BT members out there?2005, i met so many fellow bt'ers. Before facebook and other big social media. We used it after katrina to help locate affected friends. 2006 a big group of us trained and encouraged each other for ironman florida and we sat with each other at the prerace dinner and cheered each other on the course. I still have a couple friends who call us when they come to the beach and we visit. I stopped using the logs last year but i will go back and fix that.
A couple special memories were Lucy, one of her goals was to do a 30 minute 5k. After she died unexpectedly, someone organized a virtual 5k on here and a bunch of us went out a ran a 30 minute 5 k in her honor.
Another one was JD Wright, he was a double transplant (liver and kidney i think ). He was from Indiana but had family near me. I kinda mentored him on here and he and his family came down here and he did his triathlon here. What a great day. He also passed away a couple years later.
I also enjoyed mentoring several others and those that were close by I actually raced with. Great memories of this site. |