Sunday I join 219 other Team Fox runners as we take on the New York City Marathon. Together Husband and I raised around $4300 for the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Many of you reading this post donated and for your generosity we say THANK YOU.
Today I walked the finish line (and about 10 other miles, which I may regret) and took about a zillion cheesy photos. I’m way too excited about my free cowbell from Niketown, so I’m either overtired or overstimulated. It’s hard not to get swept away in the marathon mania. This city is a buzz with excitement. Best comment from a street vendor: slow down, the race is tomorrow.
Tonight is our Team Fox team dinner and I secretly hope Michael J. Fox will make a surprise appearance. No mention of him in any of the emails, but he lives in NYC … so I’m hopeful. I have a tendency toward high expectations. I’m sure the dinner will be wonderful with or without MJF. But better with. I’m just saying. I hope I don’t call him Alex by accident. Sunday at 5:30 am I catch the Team Fox bus (no ferry!) to Staten Island where we wait and wait and wait some more. The Team is giving us arts and craft stuff to personalize our shirts and pass the time. The cool thing about running with a team – lots of people to amuse during the long, and possibly rainy, wait.
Husband has decided to run with me, not way ahead of me, so I’ll have help with my celebrity spotting and photo taking. Watch out Anthony Edwards. It’s like the rule about costumed runners. You must finish ahead of all celebrities in view.
Guess who came to dinner?
Oh. My. Shit.
I need more cowbell!
may i be the first to congratulate you and P.R. Husband on a terrific run. sadly, I turned off coverage shortly after the finish so i could do the Meb Dance in the streets, so i missed your big finish. but anthony edwards was looking ragged, so i’m guessing your evil plan worked. Great Run!!!!
unless you accidentally slept in. in which case, return your cowbell to Niketown immediately. the shame.
Three alarms and a wakeup call and I made it to the start line. Lessons learned from Seinfeld. I earned my cowbell.
That Ed Norton sandbagged everyone on twitter and was only a couple of miles behind me. So my big finished was overshadowed by the announcer giving a celebrity update. Bah.
Guess who came out to cheer at mile 23.5? Love him.
I didn’t realize you were running with Team Fox! That’s awesome that you got to meet him and that he came to show his support.
I joined the team late (start of October), but I’m glad I did it. This was my first time running as part of a charity team and it was great to experience first hand, epseically given the controversy surrounding charity runners. MJF was an added bonus, although I didn’t get to meet him one on one (he gave a stirring and funny speech to the group at the restaurant).