The plans are being finalized

Final Preparations are being made, team assignments are done and all the countless hours of planning are about to become a reality. I recieved my teams information over the weekend and was able to speak with each of them. I have a great group of officers and an amazing athlete joining our team. of course I will say my group will be the best but I have a great feeling about all of them and the enthuasim I heard in their voices. We have a lot of diversity to bring to the Final Leg, we are from all across the country and all different types of Law Enforcement.

Our athlete or "Rock Star" as you will hear me refer to him is Robbie Strickland from Warren, Rhode Island. I think every athlete is a Rock Star but especially the ones who are selected as Final Leg Runners, they are the Rock Stars and the energy of the Final Leg. I can tell by talking with Robbie's parents Bob and Donna he has tons of energy. He is a huge sports fan, loves his beloved Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics and Atlanta Braves. Robbie is a well versed travler, he has been all over the world on vacations and partcipating in the 2003 World Games in Dublin, Ireland as well as the first ever US National Games in Ames, Iowa. I am looking forward to meeting Robbie and getting to know him even better throughout this amazing experience. I have no doubt that Robbie is going to keep a smile on everyone's face during our journey, and I can't wait to see how much fun he is going to have!!

Team one has an amazing group of people and I will try to tell you more about them along our journey. We have a great mix from across the United States:

Tom Madera from Connecticut
Jana Rooker from Iowa
Amanda Velencia from New Mexico
Eric Guerrero from Texas
Jason Niemi from Wyoming
Jake Johnson from Idaho (he will be driving the team 1 family truckster to make sure we are all safe)

Our team joins the other:
47 Law Enforcement Runners
9 Special Olympics Athletes
9 Run Team Leaders
24 Support Team Leaders
9 RV Drivers
6 police escorts
3 Documentation Team Members
1 Team Captain Mike Teem

The planning that the LETR group from Iowa and Nebraska is amazing they have our journey planned down to the minute at time and I can not praise them enough for  all the hard work that they have already done.

It is my goal to try and update this blog everyday to every two days during our journey across Iowa and Nebraska trying to take you along with Robbie as well as the rest of our team as we share this incredible journey.

Thank you for following my blog,
Shawn