{"id":3440,"date":"2015-02-10T14:14:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T22:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2015-02-10T14:14:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T22:14:20","slug":"running-red-heart-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/running-red-heart-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Red for Heart 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Silver Sage sponsored, ProjectHero athlete (un-named to protect his identity) shares his Running Red\u00a0experience…<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was good to get out and run this past Saturday, it was for a good cause, Running Red for Heart 2015<\/em> put on by REMSA. I also met some very cool people. Like the gentleman I am pictured with, Korean War Veteran of the United States Marine Corps\u2026Sgt. Harold Holder, author of Please Leave the Lights On<\/em>, his story about recovery from a TBI. We hit it off immediately!<\/p>\n

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The run went off without a hitch. It was cold running into the wind, but we beat the rain! I finished 15th overall with a time of 30:16, not my best, but considering I had a lower back procedure done just 15 hours prior to the race\u2026I’ll take it!<\/p>\n

The best part was being contacted later in the day by Mr. Holder asking me if I would like to come to Pensacola Florida to speak about TBI’s with a Marine Corps Foundation that he and a few generals have started. Are you kidding me…of course I will go, that’s a huge honor!<\/p>\n

As you can see in the photo Mr. Holder is wearing a USMC hat, I am holding his book that he autographed and gave to me\u2026none of this would have ever happened if I had not walked up to him and thanked him for his service.<\/p>\n

I know a lot of us have our own demons, I am right there with you\u2026but we can choose to remain silent\u2026or choose to reach out!! Just a simple thank you is all it took! He said it was a pleasure to meet me, I assured him, the pleasure was all mine!!<\/p>\n

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Silver Sage sponsored, ProjectHero athlete (un-named to protect his identity) shares his Running Red\u00a0experience… It was good to get out and run this past Saturday, it was for a good cause, Running Red for Heart 2015 put on by REMSA. I also met some very cool people. Like the gentleman I am pictured with, Korean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletes-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}