This morning, Gerardo Rivas laced up in Wilmington and ran the 10th Annual R.E.D. 5K.
He finished 2nd overall out of 109 runners. First in his age group. Official time: 22:55. Not bad for a Saturday in June.
Gerardo is a foreman on the EHS landscape install and maintenance teams. He is methodical, reliable and genuinely good at what he does. He is also, it turns out, a serious runner. Not just 5Ks. Gerardo competes at distance. Half marathons and beyond. The kind of runner who treats a 5K like a tune-up.
The R.E.D. Run raises money for education and scholarship programs in Wilmington through the Reaching Educational Dreams initiative. It is exactly the kind of event we want our people out there supporting, and Gerardo showed up wearing Eastern gear and came home with hardware.
That is not a coincidence. We sponsor Gerardo’s running because we think a person who pushes themselves on a Saturday morning brings something to Monday that you cannot teach. We have seen it. The focus, the follow-through, the quiet pride in doing something well. It shows up in the work.
We are proud of him. We are proud of what he represents on a job site and what he represented on that course today.
Congratulations, Gerardo. Now go put your feet up.
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