First blog post

Hey everyone,
     If you've made it here, I appreciate you taking the time to support me on this quest of completing the Iron Distance Triathlon on October 26, 2013.  For this, I am fundraising to donate hopefully $5,000 to the Kevin Reinhard Scholarship Foundation by race day.  During the race I will be carrying the names of the 9 fallen Marines I knew while serving.  As I expect 2013 to be my last year as a Marine, I wanted to do this while still on Active Duty and kind of as a goodbye to the Corps as well as the Marines I knew who've passed away.  I'm going to be carrying the names of the 9 Marines throughout the entire 140.6 mile race, which includes a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and a marathon (26.2 miles).  I'm going to continue to update this blog with how training is going, what races I have coming up (I'm going to try to compete once a month until the big day) and other kinds of info like how the fundraising is coming and how you can order t-shirts.  Also, I will be creating some fundraising "events" later on including things like "If we hit $500 this month I'll shave my head and post it on youtube".  If any of you have good ideas, send them to me please!  Other than that, expect more posts later as I created this so I don't clog up the Facebook Feed with all the Triathlon news.  Thanks again for stopping by and for your support,

Eric