City: Oakland, CA
Profession (Optional): Healthcare
Fundraising Goal: $5,000
Race Goal (time/just finish!): Just finish!
"I'm pushing for Team U2FP because the world needs an intervention to restore function for people with paralysis. U2FP has proven that it is the best organization to make that happen. I have a C-5 spinal cord injury, and it sucks. I know a lot of people who are paralyzed, and it makes their lives, and sometimes the lives of those around them, a lot more damn difficult. Now, people with paralysis are able to do quite a bit, but GD, individual lives and society as a whole would be so much better if we could restore function. And U2FP is the best Organization to make that a reality. So, I want to do everything I can to support them and thus, the delivery of an intervention to restore function."
Fun Facts
- Is this your first marathon/race? If not, what others have you completed?: No, I completed the 2019 Chicago marathon, pushing for Team U2FP
- What do you crave after a long run?: Jelly-filled glazed donuts
- Do you listen to anything when you train or race? If yes, what?: Audiobooks, preferably mid-quality Sci Fi
- What are you most excited and/or nervous about for the marathon? I am most excited about the first 15 minutes of the race. Because I am so much slower than the professional wheelers I am immediately left behind, but I start earlier than the able bodies. So there is a short window during which I am pretty much the only person on the track slowly pushing down an empty Michigan Avenue. It was quite bizarre, and I don’t think anybody noticed me, but it was extremely exhilarating to be all alone in a sleeveless hoodie with the crowd’s energy buzzing about. I am nervous that I will have to go to the bathroom too frequently. That really makes things difficult.
- What is an interesting or unique fact about yourself (or anything else you’d like to share)? I worked on the marketing materials for, and my name appears in, the academy award-winning documentary film, The Cove. It’s a pretty good movie, I recommend it. It did not catapult me to Hollywood fame … Yet.
Unite 2 Fight Paralysis is proud to once again be a charity partner for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon 2021! Help support U2FP’s initiatives to accelerate curative treatments for those living with Spinal Cord Injuries. Team U2FP members have raised over $140,000 in the past few years. Thank you for your support to advance research towards a cure for spinal cord injury!
| Supporters | |||
| Name | Date | Amount | Comments |
| Kathryn Mahoney | 10/09/2021 | $51.64 | Thomas! Congrats on crushing your fundraising goal. Have fun crushing the course, too. I’ll be cheering for you tomorrow! | Felice Cloyd | 10/01/2021 | $102.98 | Sending you encouraging vibes - the Cloyd Motto - HOLD FAST Thomas❤️ | Jason Curry | 09/30/2021 | $28.59 | Thon the heck outta this mar-mar. | Sydney Kase | 09/30/2021 | $102.98 | You are invincible!! | Jenna Brown | 09/30/2021 | $154.31 | I’m a little late to the game here but this is absolutely awesome. Go crush it | John Bowman | 09/16/2021 | $51.64 | Good Luck in the Race! | Kevin Roddy | 09/15/2021 | $104.05 | Michael Johnson | 09/14/2021 | $102.98 | From Michael & Caitlin | Alex March | 09/13/2021 | $102.98 | Anonymous Friend | 09/13/2021 | $102.98 | Jillian Greenacre | 09/13/2021 | $102.98 | Betsy Brooks | 09/12/2021 | $52.18 | Clayton Herman | 09/12/2021 | $104.00 | Don’t blow it, Thomas! | Melissa Bartz | 09/12/2021 | $102.98 | Push it real good!!! | Megan Jackson | 09/12/2021 | $52.18 | Proud of you, Tomas! Good luck! | Annie Tilton | 09/12/2021 | $102.98 | Go Thomas!!! | Gussie August | 09/12/2021 | $51.64 | Good luck my friend! We’ll keep an eye out for you! | Chelsea Lepley | 09/12/2021 | $102.98 | Paul Ekstrom | 09/12/2021 | $102.98 | You're amazing. I get tired driving 26 miles. | Maria Newman | 09/12/2021 | $51.64 | GIDDIT THOMAS! PYHO! | Anonymous Friend | 09/12/2021 | $154.31 | Let’s go cokely | Jenn Boswell | 09/12/2021 | $51.64 | Good luck! Get after it, Thomas! | Anonymous Friend | 09/12/2021 | $155.91 | Sean Ryan | 09/12/2021 | $205.65 | Joan Bolduc | 09/12/2021 | $102.98 | Love you, Thomas! Cookies will soon come. Ride like the wind! Your Uncle Paul and Aunt Joan | Kathleen Kelley | 09/12/2021 | $31.11 | Hey, great work! We were on a Wilderness inquiry trip together in? 2015? Two other participants on that trip are doing Chicago marathon too. Go get ‘em! | Nell Lindquist | 09/12/2021 | $51.64 | Get it Thomas!! | Akshay Kashyap | 08/11/2021 | $51.64 | Phyllis Matsuura | 06/05/2021 | $154.31 | Sophie Glickstein | 06/03/2021 | $77.31 | Chayva Lehrman | 06/02/2021 | $10.57 | Wayshine Tseng | 06/01/2021 | $51.64 | Lauren Rice | 06/01/2021 | $10.57 | Simon Landau | 06/01/2021 | $25.98 | Keep inspiring TBones❤️??❤️ | Audrey Matthias | 05/31/2021 | $25.98 | Go, Tom! | Michael Rusert | 05/31/2021 | $102.98 | U2FP to the moon! | Andrew Crown | 05/30/2021 | $102.98 | Good luck, bro! | Lucy Spiller | 05/30/2021 | $41.38 | Olivia C | 05/30/2021 | $26.24 | Jacqueline Paduano | 05/30/2021 | $41.38 | Go T Money! Go!!!! | Steve Stone | 05/30/2021 | $104.05 | Sweet T coming back for seconds. Love it. Eaggahhahagagauahahauhahaub. | Abigail Stone | 05/30/2021 | $104.05 | Crush it | Jane Ihrke O’Connor | 05/30/2021 | $25.98 | Molly Schaefer | 05/30/2021 | $20.00 | Gooooooooo Cokely!! | Katie Bolger | 05/30/2021 | $25.98 | Ryan Ball | 05/30/2021 | $104.05 | Katie Nelson | 05/30/2021 | $20.84 | Rock on my friend ? | Tania Maitra | 05/30/2021 | $102.98 | Giddy up T-Bird...as awesome as the day I met ya ??♥️? | Karen Abate | 05/30/2021 | $500.00 | Love you Boludo! | Shannon Terschluse | 05/30/2021 | $513.66 | Go get ‘em, Thomas! Proud to know you! | Paul Ekstrom | 05/30/2021 | $102.98 | Sean Ryan | 05/30/2021 | $205.65 | Kendra Karczewski | 05/30/2021 | $51.64 | Kevin Flaherty | 05/30/2021 | $102.98 | Tuomas Salminen | 05/30/2021 | $10.57 | Had a blast in Stockholm. Keep up the good work. | Jules Levy | 05/30/2021 | $102.98 | Wooooot! Freaking badass / well done! | Bruce Bowman | 05/30/2021 | $256.98 | Proud to support your impressive efforts, TC! | K.T. Kelley | 05/30/2021 | $41.38 | May the course be with you! |
| Total | $5,604.62 | ||