Previously posted on my Thrillhead Blog
Some of you may remember me posting a blog entry about my friends who were doing the 24 hours of Sunlight to raise money for Gavin Ozanne, who was born one month after his father perished in an avalanche accident near Aspen.
Well, here’s an update from Jason himself:
First of all we’d like to say thank you to everyone who supported us for this race and gave so generously to the Simon Ozanne Memorial Fund. The amount of support everyone gave for this cause was truly incredible, and we cannot thank you enough. Its amazing to have so many great friends and heartwarming to see everyone come together to support this cause. We don’t have the exact number yet but so far it looks to be over $9000 that was raised for the fund and Gavin Ozanne’s future. The total donation will be made in Alexis Dodin’s name (the other victim of the avalanche) – we know he would have been right there with us if he could.
Ok so on to the race – It was amazing, and we manged to blow away our goal by completing 28 laps (see the note at the bottom for people who pledged by the lap). The weather was perfect (only got down to 20 at night, 2 years ago they said it was negative 15 at night), the event was really well run, and somehow we did pretty well. We actually had plenty of time to get in one more, but we decided not to gouge those of you who pledged by the lap anymore and to take the last lap all together. So we let Bloomy rest for a good 30 minutes and headed out at a “casual” pace, a.k.a Julien’s pace, for a victory lap. The third place team for the 5 person teams actually only completed 2 more laps than us, and if we had about 15 more minutes we could have scrubbed the team lap, got 2 in and sent the last one up just before the deadline (as long as you started your lap before the deadline you were allowed to complete it), so we weren’t too far off from turning our participation medal into the coveted semi-precious bronze type. All in all it was great and actually a lot of fun.
Info on our lap times (and other teams) is available through the link below (we are team 62 – Atleast they’re trying, I think – we had what we thought was a much better name but opted for the PC version, which we will never happen again). Check out the soloist times too – those guys are incredible: The winner set a new world record by completing 34 laps by himself – insane – and the female soloist champion almost completed as many as our whole team.
[url]http://www.grannygear.com/realtime/public/sl_team.php?team_id=62&action=display[/url]
Again we’d really like to thank everyone for contributing to this fund (and to Scooter’s parents for hooking us up with the winnebago – it was a lifesaver – sorry about the muffler, I’m pretty sure we can blame the winnebago’s decision to turn its muffler into a sparkbar on Bloomy’s new mustache).
-Jason (Country), Angela (Midj), Jon (Bloomy/Inigo), Jordan, Julien and of course Gavin and Jenn Ozanne.
Great job folks!!! Here’s some pictures the team has shared:
Country getting the race off to a great start:
Go team! Julien, Angela, Jordan, Bloomy and Country
Gavin, the little one who all this is for!
If you would like information on how to contribute to the Simon Ozanne Memorial Fund, please contact me (my contact information is on the right of this page) and I will connect you with Jason.
