Alright, in keeping with previous posts, I’m going to be keeping this one short because, in keeping with previous patterns, I’m still up at 11:15 and have to wake up at 4:45 AM! Joy!
Alright so for Day 11 we had a 12 mile day and I was partnered with THE Ally Rising. Ally is super cool and absolutely hilarious, our run chats were top notch (at times raunchy) throughout the day. Always a pleasure to run with Ally, because with Ally one often has to stop running to laugh. Crossing the Utah-Idaho border was really cool. Climbing the Idaho sign was perhaps cooler.
I would be remiss to talk about day 11 without mentioning our dedication for the day! As some may know, I’m not the only Tyler on Team Boston. When I first found that out, I’m not going to lie, I was pretty pissed. I love being the only Tyler in the group. I definitely felt threatened. But then I met Tyler Berge, who is an absolute RAY of light in this dark world in which we live! Tyler is affectionately known as Girl-ler, Lady-ler, She-ler, and Femme-ler, being that she is the female Tyler (of course, I’m known as Guy-ler, Mister-ler, He-ler, and Masc-ler).
Anyway I’m getting distracted, as I am wont to do. The point of this story is that Tyler’s younger sister, Tatum is a Hodgkin’s Lymphoma survivor. I’m not going to go into details about Tatum’s story because you can read about Tyler and Tatum in this awesome newspaper article!!! Tatum had an important appointment on day 11, so we all dedicated our miles to Tatum, Tyler, and the Berge family. Thankfully, the appointment went well and Tatum is still in remission and doing great! I only have older siblings, but I can’t even begin to imagine how Tyler must have felt while Tatum was sick. I’m so so happy that so far Tatum has had a relatively good outcome 🙂
Upon arriving in Pocatello we literally ran over to the Pocatello Running Company before they closed, where we met the shop’s awesome owner, Brian. We told Brian what we were all about and asked if the store would be willing to make a donation of some nutrition products like GU gels and Nuun electrolyte tablets. Brian was honest and told us that we had come at the worst possible time, as the store was moving down the block and inventory was kind of sketchy. Nevertheless, he told us to shoot him an email and come back in the morning and he’d put something together for us! He also offered us half off apparel, so we’re now proudly repping the Pocatello Running Company across the country! The store seemed to have a really awesome community of runners and it reminded me a lot of Falls Road in Baltimore.
Ok, that’s all for the moment as I really need to catch up! Sorry for the lack of posting, everybody. We’ve been doing so many awesome things that I want to make the most of my time out here and, frankly, I can blog any time! Schoch out!
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