Andrew Techet, admiral of Ridgewood Shopping Center in Raleigh, announces today the anniversary Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot (www.ridgewoodturkeytrot.com) will be captivated Thursday, November 26 at the Ridgewood Shopping Center at Wade Ave. and Ridge Road. Presenting the accident are Ridgewood Shopping Center, Fleet Feet Sports of Raleigh and Mizuno Corporation. More than 2,000 participants are accepted at the sixth anniversary accident benefiting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society of Eastern North Carolina.
A Triangle-area Thanksgiving Day tradition, the 2009 accident will affection four events: a aggressive and noncompetitive 8k race, a one-mile fun run and a kids' dash. The chase is accustomed by U.S.A. Track and Field and is captivated on a certified course. The fastest macho and changeable runners in anniversary aggressive analysis will accept prizes from Fleet Feet Sports of Raleigh and Mizuno. Every one hundredth aggressive chase finisher will accept a chargeless brace of Mizuno shoes.
New this year, Precision Race, LLC is accouterment disposable-chip timing. Runners won’t accept to angle in a abstracted band to aces up their chips or delay to about-face them in at the accomplishment line.
“We are captivated with the advance of the accident in contempo years and attending advanced to comestible this momentum,” says Bruce Bokish, MS Events administrator and chase coordinator. “It’s fun for the accomplished ancestors and a abundant way to plan up an appetence for Thanksgiving dinner.”
In 2008, added than 1,700 participants advice accession $18,500 for charity. Runners and enthusiasts represented 44 North Carolina towns and cities, 33 U.S. States, Canada, France and the Marshall Islands.
Online allotment is accessible at www.active.com. Additional accident advice is accessible at www.ridgewoodturkeytrot.com, or by calling 919.349.1719.
About Ridgewood Shopping Center
Ridgewood Shopping Center has been confined the Raleigh association for added than 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 MS Events
MS Events is a Triangle nonprofit, committed to analogous bike and bottom contest that accession funds and acquaintance for bounded causes. The alignment began as a accumulation of volunteers and continues today as such with nonprofit certification. Currently, MS Events raises funds for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society of Eastern North Carolina. 2009 contest include: St. Patty's Run Green 8K, Cup 'n Cone Tour and the Ridgewood Turkey Trot. For added information, appointment www.mseventsnc.org.
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 our 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.
Brian Van Norman
919.232.5008
brian@articulon.com
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