I had a swim meet this past weekend and would like to thank-you for all the support you gave to me. Sonia and David were there for support and made sure I did not missed my events.

Hi Marcelita!
Now that the season is over I want to thank all of you, the coaches, the trainers, the speakers, the runners, the walkers………..for a wonderfull 2009 season.  I have been member now for 10 years and I can truly say that you and your staff (please convey this message to them) have really developed FIT into a fantastic - well organized - friendly,  helpful and just simply great group of people.

Only 1 in 1 million make their dreams come true to become a professional athlete. If you do not make it, you look for plan B which is to become a college athlete. Everyone has their life reasons for not making it either way. The problem here is what happens to that person that is very competitive and passionate in its ability? What do you do? Where do you go? Who do you turn to for support? This was me years ago as life’s circumstances just took me off the path I was set to go.

It’s Thursday night, my last training run before the marathon, and I’m getting ready in an almost unconscious routine. The dog is looking at me as I put on my shoes, and I know she’s thinking; “there here goes again, off without me, not like when he used to take me along”. Strap on the iPod; U2, the Chili Peppers, Cake, Dylan, Sheryl Crow and Natalie Merchant to get me through, and I leave somehow with a smile on my face. This is what I’ve trained 16 months for, and I’m feeling impossibly a mix of exhilaration and terror. House