A almanac 803 participants angry out on Sunday, September 13, 2009 for The Magnificent Mile (www.magmilerace.com), benefiting the Spastic Paraplegia Foundation. The fourth anniversary fundraising accident aloft added than $45,000 for analysis into high motor neuron diseases.
"I am artlessly afflicted by the association abutment apparent on Sunday," says Sarah Roberts-Witt, architect and organizer of The Magnificent Mile. "The accident surpassed my wildest expectations, and I am acutely accountable to all the sponsors, volunteers, and participants who fabricated it possible."
The Magnificent Mile included one-mile runs and walks and served as the USATF North Carolina State one-mile championship. Both the men's and women's 2008 champions auspiciously dedicated their titles. Bobby Mack, a 24-year-old Raleigh resident, won the men's all-embracing with a time of 4 account and 10 seconds. This bankrupt the antecedent North Carolina almanac of four account and 13 seconds, set by Mack in 2008. The women's all-embracing champ was 27-year-old Raleigh resident, Kasia Sujkowski, with a time of 5 account and 3 seconds.
The Magnificent Mile is the alone across affairs accurately committed to adopting acquaintance and money to armamentarium analysis of the motor neuron diseases Primary Lateral Sclerosis and Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia. To date, about 2,300 participants accept advice accession added than $145,000 to armamentarium research.
The accident was the aboriginal of the eight-race Second Empire Grand Prix Series and is allotment of Endurance Magazine's Race Without a Trace action aimed at announcement contest that are environmentally conscious.
Full chase after-effects are accessible at www.magmilerace.com.
About The Magnificent Mile:
Sarah Roberts-Witt, co-founder and afflatus abaft The Magnificent Mile, was an ardent agent and marathoner until developing primary crabbed sclerosis in 2004. She is now bedfast to a wheelchair and is clumsy to speak, but the ache hasn't chock-full her. Since her diagnosis, she has committed her time to aggravating to acquisition a cure-one footfall at a time. This chase combines her adulation of active with her admiration to acquisition a cure for motor neuron disease. The Magnificent Mile contest accept aloft added than $100,000 to armamentarium analysis grants awarded by the Spastic Paraplegia Foundation to advice acquisition a cure for motor neuron disease. Visit www.magmilerace.com.
About Spastic Paraplegia Foundation:
The Spastic Paraplegia Foundation (SPF) is a nonprofit, all-volunteer alignment founded in 2000 and the almsman of The Magnificent Mile races. Its primary mission is to acquisition a cure for two high motor neuron disorders, primary crabbed sclerosis (PLS) and ancestral spastic paraplegia (HSP), and to accession acquaintance of their adverse effects. Some 92 percent of its funds go to this mission. Since its inception, the SPF has awarded added than $2 actor in analysis grants. Visit www.sp-foundation.org.
Brian Van Norman
919.232.5008
brian@articulon.com
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