Brew Works Happy Hour a Success!
Written by Jill // November 11, 2010 // News & Events // 10 Comments // 2,661 views
Last night, I was speechless. Okay, so I’m not that great at getting up in front of a crowd of people, public speaking has never been my forté. I’m more of a behind-the-scenes kind of gal, so excuse my ill attempt at thanking everyone for showing up last evening. As I mentioned a couple days ago, I was excited about how many people planned to make an appearance last night. I am most in awe of the fact that people came out on their birthdays and anniversaries. Yes, there was an anniversary couple in the crowd last night. I have no official head count but a rough guess would be between 125-150 people during the busiest point of the evening. It was so neat to look around the room and see so many runners hanging out and having a good time at some place other than a race venue.
Nine months ago I came up with this little idea of building a website that would contain all the local running information I could find. I hoped that it might be helpful to someone, anyone. I had no idea if anyone would even look at it. Last February I never imagined an event like last night’s Happy Hour taking place. Runners are awesome people. Your participation in last night’s Happy Hour event proved to me – and to everyone – that we have quite an incredible runner community here in the Lehigh Valley. Thank you so much for coming out!
Brew Works on the Green did a fantastic job at keeping everyone happy. A huge thank you to Sean, Amanda and the rest of the staff. Thank you so much for opening (and closing) your doors for us.
Thank you to Jerry from Try Chips who drove 2 hours to make it to our little shindig. He definitely gets props for longest distance traveled to attend. Jerry worked the crowd, handing out bags of his awesome chips (freeze dried fruits such as apples, bananas, blueberries, acai berries, etc.) I can assure you, he will be back.
Thank you very much to all of the raffle sponsors. Money from the raffle went towards the food bill.
Rochelle Romeo of Run Lehigh Valley for the race entries
Laura Pudloski for the massage gift certificates
Jill Killo for the gift certificate to her coffee shop, Perk on Main
Britt Tagg for the yoga passes to Emmaus Yoga
LVRR for the 1 year membership
Matt Long and Charles Butler for a signed copy of The Long Run
Amby Burfoot for a signed copy of his book, The Runner’s Guide to the Meaning of Life
Just Be Natural for the gift certificates to their storefront in Bethlehem
Bart Yasso for a copy of his book, My Life on the Run
Chris Schmidt for the Emu boots
10 Comments on "Brew Works Happy Hour a Success!"
Congratulations and thank you, Jill. I’m amazed, too, how quickly it’s all happened. I think it continues to get even better from here!
Was a great time Jill. Thanks again for organizing everything. We do have an awesome community of runners in the Lehigh Valley.
Congrats Jill! Wish I lived a little closer and could have come to this.
A BIG THANK YOU to Jill for organizing such a fantastic event. It was great to meet everyone and to be able to share our TRY CHIPS with a great Running Trybe! Jerry & Tim – Try Chips
So much fun! Thanks again!!
The night was a huge success Jill! A big thank you for putting in so much time to bring us all together. People are still talking about it!
Awesome job, Jill. I think this website couldn’t have come at a better time, and the BrewWorks gathering was awesome. Thank you so much again.
This was totally fun & cool night out with the so-called “running community”…Absolutely wanna be at the next one!
I had a great time. Bummed I had to leave early. Can’t wait for the next one :-)
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