Today is day 10 of 11. We are almost home and you can feel and see the excitement between the runners. We ran through Jacksonville and St. Augustine today and all the runners said it was a beautiful run. Some of the run was right beside the ocean, with cool breezes and cloudy skies. Now for the bad news. My calves just said no today. I ran one leg in the early morning and that was it for me. I’m hoping that the long layover and ice will help me run on the final day tomorrow. Jim and I will be running the last leg into West Palm Beach prior to the ceremonial celebration at 6:45. It looks like we will be arriving into West Palm Beach around and end up at the Marriot at 3 pm (a lot of people will be there ... you all are welwcome). The downtown Clematis Celebration will still be at 6:30 at the fountain so come down and see that. We were done early today 1:00 pm and decided to have lunch as a team before heading to the hotel. While we were having lunch the waitress asked us if we were runners. I said, I guess you can call us that, we just ran from Boston over the last 10 days. She gave us this funny look and said “Ya right”. It took awhile, but we convinced her that we did run from Boston to Florida. We all said this is going to happen a lot, that nobody will believe us.
This will be the last email/blog so I just want to say thanks to all of you for supporting me. This was by far the hardest thing I have had to do, but a most enjoyable adventure. My wife, Anna, is ill right now, and I’m really anxious on getting home to help take care of her. See you all in the near future, and again thank you so much.
“Straight ahead”
George
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