Despite more than 6,700 participants from 250+ companies, you couldn’t miss LaunchSquad’s crew in this year’s JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge…even if you were tirelessly out of breath or simply overwhelmed with the awesomeness of it all. Clad in gold (well, most of us — see picture), the LaunchSquad Running Club was well-represented in the 3.5-mile run down the Embarcadero (a change from previous years’ Chrissy Field course) for our 7th consecutive year participating in the event.
With a strong fielding of 16 runners (and a handful of loud and aggressive fan club members cheering us on), Emilie Cole led the way for the Squad, with a time of 25:13, and our very own Steve ‘Maroon Man’ Mnich was close behind with 25:46.
Overall, a tremendous team effort to make this event happen: From Emilie and Steve getting our shirts together in true last-minute fashion (pun somewhat intended; thank you Roger and Robin from Creative Origins), to Jason Mandell and Corey “Cee-Lew” Lewis for the Tres Agaves post-party festivus the Corporate Challenge was yet again a success for LaunchSquad!
With Exclamy premiering at last year’s event (that’s our attempt at turning our logo into a character), Maroon Man this year, only time will tell what mascot next year’s event will bring us. Until then…