Actually, this thing has been started (or maybe in neutral) for awhile. I decided to run the Dana Farber Marathon Challenge in 2009, sometime after my mom died of lung cancer. A friend of mine here in Billerica had a great experience and raised a ton of money for cancer research and I thought why not me, too?
My story is pretty simple. I grew up in Hopkinton MA and the Marathon was always part of our lives. As kids we would get up early and pedal our bikes up to the Town Common before they shut the streets down, and play football right their in the square and then run down to climb elm trees near the start to get the right vantage point. I can remember sometime in the 1970's big TV trucks came in and out comes David Hartman from Good Morning America and we crowded behind and screamed "Good Morning America!!" after he announced where he was "in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, start of the Boston Marathon". Sometime after that I became interested in the running itself and like so many others said to myself, "Someday, gonna have to run the Marathon". Well, I hope the Someday is this year. I'm giving it my all and I hope to raise a ton of money so that all my friends and other family members will someday never have to go through the pain of cancer or watching a close friend, family member or anyone else ever die from such a horrible disease.
Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!! Thanks for reading and for being part of the journey -- Tom Fitz.
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