Registration is up added than 75 percent compared to endure year for the sixth anniversary Ridgewood Turkey Trot (www.ridgewoodturkeytrot.com), blame estimated accord to 2,500 – 3,000. The Triangle attitude takes abode on November 26, 2009 at the Ridgewood Shopping Center on Wade Avenue in Raleigh and allowances the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
“I am afraid at the amazing association support,” says Bruce Bokish, Ridgewood Turkey Trot accident coordinator. “With some acceptable weather, we could ability 3,000 participants.”
The 2009 Turkey Trot will affection four events: aggressive and noncompetitive 8K races, 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.
Participants accept several options to annals for the event:
•Online at active.com (http://tinyurl.com/2009TurkeyTrot) – Registration ends at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 24. Discounts are accessible for participants registering online.
•At beat packet aces ups on Tuesday, Nov. 24 and Wednesday, Nov. 25 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Fleet Feet Sports, Raleigh in the Ridgewood Shopping Center.
•On chase day alpha at 7 a.m. – allotment for the aggressive 8K chase is not accessible at this time.
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. Visit www.ridgewoodturkeytrot.com for added information.
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 the National Multiple Sclerosis Society:
MS stops humans from moving. The National MS Society exists to accomplish abiding it doesn’t. We advice anniversary being abode the challenges of active with MS. Each year, through our home appointment and 50-state arrangement of chapters, we 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. We 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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