Purple. It was a sea of purple.
Our Team in Training running jerseys were purple. And that's what I was looking at. Thousands of people running the San Diego Marathon, flowing up a hill that disappeared into the early morning mist, in a sea of purple.
I thought I knew why I was running the marathon with Team in Training. I thought it was my way to meet people, take home memories and help out a great cause. But here I was, staring out into a sea of purple thinking to myself, this is why I'm here.
I was part of changing the world.
Over one billion dollars.
Man v. Bar isn't going to make one billion dollars, but that's how much Team in Training has raised for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
You're going to come to Man v. Bar, have a blast, meet all kinds of new people and walk away with a memory you'll recall one day and you'll smile to yourself and think, "That was a riot."
But what you probably won't remember, probably won't recall or even notice was that when you were with us crawling from Ye Olde King's Head all the way to Monsoon, amidst all the shots, pints, laughs and hilariously good times, you were part of a movement to make something happen. You were part of changing the world.
Over the last 30 years, Team in Training tripled the survival rate for leukemia and blood cancers from 10% to 42%
Imagine, that in the next 30 years, the survival rate at 100%.
You were part of changing the world.