- I am running for those that can’t. Their gifts to my family over the last 20 years compel action. MDA has been a part of my family for the last 20 years, during which at least one family member has spent a week at the MDA summer camps. At camp, we were educated in patience, grace, kindness, and humility by the fiercest, funniest, and kindest boys and girls. Every day, their lessons echo around the halls of our home.
- I am running for my kids. Something is impossible, until it isn’t. I’ve never been an athlete and had debilitating childhood asthma. I didn’t run a full mile until I was 22, at basic training, in the Army. Unlike me, my kids have incredible athletic potential. To fully realize it though, they will have to expand on their natural talent with audacious goals and brutally hard work, stretched over years. I will bring them along to see my ups, downs, injuries, successes, and failures. I will bring them along to experience the joy of accomplishment associated with the previously impossible.
- I am running to be of service. As a member of MDA Team Momentum, I’m dedicating my miles, muscles and personal finish line to helping kids and adults living with muscular dystrophy, ALS and related muscle-debilitating diseases live longer and grow stronger. Every step I take while training for and racing in the New York City Marathon will help MDA fund groundbreaking research to accelerate treatments and cures and provide care and support for families who are counting on us.
This is where you come in. Your donation will help save and improve the lives of individuals with muscular dystrophy and the families who love them. Thanks in part to MDA Team Momentum participants and donors, MDA anticipates more new treatments in development during the next five years than in the previous five decades combined. Let’s keep and build this momentum. Please consider making a donation to support me in my upcoming race today. Thank you in advance for your support!
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