Long update coming soon!

Hi all!
I'm still recovering from an amazing weekend and not quite ready to pen my thoughts here just yet. I wanted to thank you all again for everything and to share the Bozeman Chronicle story that was published on Saturday before my race. Tim Dumas did a great job capturing the essence of "my story" and I'm truly grateful. IBD isn't really talked about much, but so many people have a story about it to share...and I feel like this is a beginning point for opening that dialogue. Thank you, Tim!

http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2008/07/19/sports/000delay.txt

If you've seen my fundraising page, you know that officially, we met our goal - we surpassed $5,000 AND I beat my goal time significantly. I hoped for 2hours 20 minutes, secretly thought MAYBE I could get 2 hours and 15 and actually finished in 2 hours 9 minutes and 12 seconds. The people, the course, the weather....everything was fantastic. I'm just completely thrilled with everything and couldn't have hoped for it to be better.

I did have the best support crew...THANK YOU MOM, JACKIE and DYLAN for riding shot gun...and to my DAD, KODY, JULIANNE, SUZANNE and definitely SCOTT and MONTY - Thanks for carrying me through...I wish you could have been there too, but I thought about you a lot along the trail! To everyone who sent me notes, said a prayer and lifted me up - believe me - you mattered. Part of me thinks that I just floated through the race...my feet barely touched the ground.

Thanks, so very, very much. And remember, anytime is a good time to send a few dollars to CCFA! http://www.active.com/donate/napa08national/JDeLay1

More later,
Jodie