Here’s the email I sent out to the team’s Facebook group tonight:
Thank you all for attending tonight! We had a great time, and when the final numbers are tallied, we will have broken $90,000! I am so incredibly proud of all of you for all you hard work and dedication to training and fund raising this year. This entire team experience has been wonderful and humbling and immensely gratifying.
While I am the captain of the team, I couldn’t have done any of this without the amazing work and volunteer efforts of the rest of the steering committee: Wiley Wang, Joseph Pulice, and Scott Ciliberti. Each of them did so much to keep things focused and straight-forward, and without their efforts, we wouldn’t have been as successful as we were.
Also, thanks to all the team mates who volunteered at our fund raising events – you are all the real heart and soul of this team!
The only piece of bad news is that I have had to withdraw from participating on the ride this year. Financial circumstances, due to the downturn in the economy, are forcing me to this unfortunate decision. On the bright side, I did get the offer of a ride down to LA for the closing ceremonies, as well as a ride back on Sunday afterward, so at least I’ll be able to celebrate with the team. I couldn’t believe how choked up I got tonight when I announced that I had to stay home this year; didn’t realize how heartsick I was feeling about it until I actually said it to the team.
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