Sad Story About Fellow Triathlete... (Page 3)

Mine too - Jeff Rochford

Hollis Rudiger, Madison, WI.

Thanks for doing this! 

Mark McKinley  Glenview, Illinois

 Well done.

Brandt Johnson.  Brownsville, Texas.  And thanks to all of you who put this together.  My uncle and cousin live in Peoria and did their first tri last year.

Me too - Dan Morrissey, Muskego, WI

McFuzz and all.  Here's the list so far as I see it.  This is up to oneword's post.  Please make sure you are correct.  I hope this helps McFuzz...

So very, very sad.  I'm so thankful that I have a zillion miles of good trails to ride that are pretty much out my front door.

Great, great letter.  Thanks for thinking of it Hangloose.

Please add my name:  Tom Matchinsky, St. Louis Park, MN

The willingness of all of these people to add their name is quite moving.  I am wondering if their is a subtle way of sharing this so that she knows where the names come from.  A thought would be to leave the letter exactly as it stands and attach a second sheet with a list of the names.  At the top of the sheet you might make a note such as:

The letter on the previous page was created by members of the beginner triathlete website.  The sentiments are shared by all members of the beginner triathlete community.  Upon learning of the letter, the following individuals also requested that their names be included:

Great idea, but I think you can drop the "upon learning of the letter" because the original letter was written on behalf of the sentiment that I felt the BT community felt as a whole, not just those of us originally talking about it.  The individual names and locations are a display of how powerful this sentiment is and I think add to the letter but in this case I felt empowered to speak for the group as a whole.  (I don't take that lightly and I'm glad so many people have approved of it.)

maybe do it like this: 

The letter on the previous page was created by members of the beginnertriathlete.com website.  The sentiments are shared by all members of our community.  The following individuals requested that their names be included to honor the memory of your son: