Every runner has one race and one medal to give for someone. One Medal is a program that promotes the gift of encouragement and empowerment for people who are going through what appears to be insurmountable adversity.
– Tom Garrity
One Medal and Half Marathon Calendar USA are working together to provide encouragement for the 13.1 community! Half Marathon Calendar USA is a half marathon schedule for the USA, listing half marathons by state, and additionally listing half marathons by month for...
One Medal and the 50 States Half Marathon Club are working together to provide encouragement for the 13.1 community! The 50 States Half Marathon Club is a recreational running club with multiple challenges to work toward simultaneously. Big member party and awards...
One Medal is encouraging participants in the inaugural Light the Darkness 5K. The race is raising awareness about the need to end human trafficking! The January 27th event is the first of three races to Get Outdoors For Freedom. This race is an evening out and back...
Everyone has a story of who or what they are running, swimming, biking or standing for. What will you leave behind as your Legacy? I have focused on that question these last four years. So who am I you ask? My name...
Waiting to run on the final wave of the New York City Marathon, you get to hang out and chat with other runners. You talk about life, favorite races, personal records, best fans, worst fans, best water station, porta potties without toilet paper, porta’s that need to...
The 2022 Lovelace Rio Grande Half Marathon and The Garrity Group/One Medal 5K provided a lot of encouragement. The event was to celebrate those who were running the race as form of encouragement for someone else. To help make the encouragement a little sweeter, each...
July 16th the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office Metro 2 helicopter was dispatched to make some water bucket drops on a fire that was quickly developing in fire ravaged Northern New Mexico. The four emergency responders had a full day, their efforts helped to...
One Medal partner’s with Rio Grande Half, 5K and One Mile Walk for Encouragement Participants in the August 14, 2022 Lovelace Rio Grande Half Marathon and The Garrity Group 5K and One Medal Walk for Encouragement will have an opportunity to add additional meaning to...
Our paths first crossed when he was running the campaign for what would be Bruce King‘s third term as New Mexico’s Governor. I was working as a reporter at the local ABC affiliate.
Over time, we’d connect more in professional and personal circles. Through our conversations, we learned that our families had actually met decades if not generations before we crossed paths. That is a story for either a book or a movie.
One of the fun things about training for a big race is the opportunity to do some other smaller races, or shorter distances, as a part of my training.
The Lake Havasu City Olympic triathlon was one of those races. Having not been in open water since the start of the COVID pandemic, I needed to get some open water training swims. I didn’t want race day to be the first time I was in open water.
This race was in honor of my brother Jim. Or, as family calls him, Jimmy.
