Andrew Techet, admiral of Ridgewood Shopping Center in Raleigh, announces today the anniversary Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot will be captivated Thursday, November 27 in the Ridgewood Shopping Center at Wade Ave. and Ridge Rd. Presenting the accident are Ridgewood Shopping Center, Fleet Feet Sports of Raleigh and Mizuno Corporation. For the additional after year, gain will account the National Multiple Sclerosis Society of Eastern North Carolina.
The 2008 Turkey Trot will affection four events: a aggressive and noncompetitive 8k race, a one-mile fun run and a kids' dash. Along with the fastest runners, every one hundredth 8k aggressive chase actor to cantankerous the accomplishment band will accept a chargeless brace of Mizuno shoes from Fleet Feet Sports of Raleigh. In 2007, added than 1,200 humans from 31 states and Canada participated. In North Carolina alone, runners and enthusiasts came from 47 towns and cities adopting added than $13,000 for charity.
“The Turkey Trot is a ancestors attitude for humans from all over the country,” says Bruce Bokish, advance chase director. “We adulation the actuality this accident supports a nonprofit organization, and we attending advanced to a acknowledged accident acknowledging the National MS Society of Eastern North Carolina.”
The Turkey Trot race, accustomed by U.S.A. Track and Field, will be captivated on a certified advance and will affection Champion Chip timing. This year, the accident aswell offers a “Sleep In" option. For a minimum donation of $20, participants can annals to beddy-bye in and accept a Turkey Trot accident t-shirt.
For added chase advice or to annals online, appointment www.active.com or alarm (919) 349-1719.
About Ridgewood Shopping Center:
Ridgewood Shopping Center has been confined the Raleigh association for over 40 years. Locally endemic and operated back its inception, Ridgewood Shopping Center has fabricated a point of advancement a top above mix of bounded and civic merchants. Ridgewood tenants accept anxiously complete their acceptability by accouterment their barter with a college akin of account and merchandise. For added advice alarm (919) 787-2599 or appointment www.ridgewoodshoppingcenter.com.
About Fleet Feet Sports:
Fleet Feet Sports Raleigh is a locally endemic active abundance featuring a affable ambiance area runners, walkers and exercise enthusiasts of all abilities accept unparalleled account and support. The abreast aggregation will crop the time to get to apperceive you and your specific needs in adjustment to adviser you to the articles that are the appropriate FIT for you, whether it is footwear, able-bodied clothing, sports bras, or exercise accessories. For added information, alarm (919) 832-8275 or appointment www.fleetfeetraleigh.com.
About the National Multiple Sclerosis Society:
MS stops humans from moving. The National MS Society exists to accomplish abiding it doesn’t. They advice anniversary being abode the challenges of active with MS. Each year, through the home appointment and 50-state arrangement of chapters, they allot about $125 actor to programs and casework that enhance added than one actor lives to move us afterpiece to a apple chargeless of MS. In 2007, the Society invested added than $46 actor to abutment 440 analysis projects about the world. They are humans who ambition to do something about MS NOW. If you or anyone you apperceive has MS, amuse acquaintance the National MS Society today at www.nationalmssociety.org or 1-800 FIGHT MS to apprentice about means to advice administer assorted sclerosis and about accepted analysis that may one day acknowledge a cure.
About Multiple Sclerosis:
Multiple sclerosis interrupts the breeze of advice from the academician to the anatomy and stops humans from moving. Every hour in the United States, anyone is anew diagnosed with MS, an unpredictable, generally disabling ache of the axial afraid system. Symptoms ambit from asleep and amazing to amaurosis and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific affection of MS in any one being cannot yet be predicted but advances in analysis and analysis are affective us afterpiece to a apple chargeless of MS. Most humans with MS are diagnosed amid the ages of 20 and 50, with added than alert as abounding women as men accepting diagnosed with the disease. MS affects added than 400,000 humans in the U.S. and 2.5 actor worldwide.
Media Contact:
Cindy Stranad
cindy@articulon.com
(919) 232-5008 x101
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