An Open Letter: Apologies in Advance

Dear friends, family, and other assorted loved ones,

In advance I apologize for the following:
for missing parties, birthdays, anniversaries, pony rides, & road trips.

For showing up to the things that I can make it to famished and unabashedly loading up my plate with any/all food in sight.

For seeming to have fallen off the face of the planet.

These are the advance apologies of your, son, brother, grandson, cousin, nephew, friend, co-worker, whom you already know to be a psycho triathlon guy. I love you all and will invariably miss out on some of the richness of your life over the next months on my way to Ironman this year. For that I am truly sorry.

Keep sending the email, leaving voicemail and the like. Peace to you and the people in your lives wherever you find yourself this holiday season.

signed,
dean sakihama - Previously sane
tnt mentor
LA Ironteam '06~'07