It was an awesome day!!! Thank you soo much everyone!!

We got back from Mont Tremblant late Wednesday night and spent the day yesterday packing for camping which we are heading out in a few minutes!!! I want to take my time and write a race report because there are so many emotions of the day that I want to capture. I'll spend some time when we get back from camping to put it all together. So this is not a race report but I want to write a HUGE thank you to everyone for all their support!!!!

First of all a massive thank you to my Dad's sister - my Aunt Sharon and Uncle Mark, my Dad's brother - my Uncle Dave and Aunt Gloria, my Dad's brother - my Uncle Mark and Aunt Cathy and my cousins Marlee and Laura for driving all the way to Mont Tremblant to honour my Dad and support the race!! You were there to calm our nerves, entertain the boys, get great pictures and to be the faces we needed throughout the day!!! I really can't tell you how much we appreciated your support!!! 

Another MASSIVE thank you to my sister Sherra, Pat, James, Andrew and to my Mom!!! We could never have done this without you guys!!! From the moment you arrived in Mont Tremblant we relied on your help with the boys, cooking the meals, keeping everyone in the loop and keeping us calm!!! When you feel like you're going to either pass out from nerves or hang out in the toilet all day - there isn't much room for patience with kids and you guys completely took over and we can't thank you enough for everything!!!! 

The actual race day was early (4:30am wake up), cold (7 degrees in the morning), extremely busy and crowded, and at points in the day there were downpours of rain with thunder!!! Josh also had the croup and was miserable!! Our supporters endured all of that to be there for us and to help pay tribute to my Dad!! What an incredible honour!! 

I also want to thank EVERYONE for all their support in any shape or form!!! I want you to know that we appreciated every donation ($5000!!!!!!!!!!!!), story, comment, facebook likes and messages that you sent. All of that support in any way it came was a huge honour to my Dad and I will forever be grateful for it. You added fuel to the day and helped power me and Damien around the course!!! 

I will write all about the day when we get back but I feel so overwhelmingly grateful to everyone so I needed to send this message!! I can't believe we raised $5000 for the Brain Tumour Foundation!! At one point on the run I was thinking how hard the race was getting and how much it was hurting - and then I thought "of course it's hard Kristen - people don't give $5000 for something easy!!". So I hope we managed to earn the donations!! 

Thank you so much again everyone!! Can't wait to take some time to sit down and share all the emotions of the day!!!