I never really know who’s coming here, so I don’t know if people reading this are first-time visitors or if they’ve been coming around since I launched the site in July 2009. So, I always have to throw in the italicized paragraph explaining why anybody might be interested in reading. Today, that’s really important because without the explanation, there’s no good reason to read about the Operation Jack Marathon.
Jack (of “Operation Jack”) is my 8-year-old son. He is severely autistic. He wears diapers. He doesn’t talk. He has a lifetime of struggles ahead of him. I am a marathon runner. And in 2010, I wanted to do something to make some good come out of the lifetime of struggles he’s facing. I wanted to find a way for him to have a positive impact on the lives of others, even if he never knows it (and he probably never will). So, I created the Operation Jack Autism Foundation. I ran 61 marathons in 2010 (yeah, I know, sometimes that was more than one a week). And I kept on figuring out ways to raise money. So far, Operation Jack and related efforts have grossed $140,000.
OK, that was the required paragraph in italics and it’s very important to this blog. Because last week, we settled on the date for the third annual Operation Jack Marathon.
