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Race Against Drunk Driving is Back!

On Sunday, September 20, 2009, I woke up to find countless missed calls and text messages on my cell phone. I was in Oklahoma City for a race Saturday and had apparently slept harder than I had in ages. Those calls and texts were from my best friend Mike. His sisters Katie and Kristi had been in a bad car accident in Houston the night before. A drunk driver rear-ended them and Kristi died at the scene. Katie walked away relatively uninjured, but it almost seems silly to say that now, looking back over the past 18 months since Kristi's death. Katie and the rest of their family are anything but "uninjured." They will never be the same. A few days after the accident, feeling more helpless than I ever had before, the idea for a "Race Against Drunk Driving" came into my head. Six weeks later, I crossed the finish line at Ironman Florida having raised over $15,000 for the SE Texas chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Kristi's memory. My donation was by far the largest donation they had ever received.

In a little less than two months, on May 21, I will be toeing the line at Ironman Texas in the Woodlands. I will once again be Racing Against Drunk Driving in Kristi's memory. While it has been 18 months since her death, her spirit still shines bright in our hearts. We cannot and will not forget her. We hope to use this senseless tragedy to spread the message far and wide: think before you drink and drive.

Please consider donating to the Race Against Drunk Driving. If you are unable to donate, I completely understand. If nothing else, I ask that you always think twice before getting behind the wheel of your car after drinking, and that you always wear a seat belt, even in the back seat.

To read about my previous Race Against Driving and my training for this upcoming one, you can follow along here.

Thank you in advance for your help, and please pass this along to anyone else you know who may be interested in helping out, or who has been affected by drunk driving.
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Kim Hornsby said…
Good for you! It's a wonderful cause.
April 1, 2011 at 2:16 PM
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