The fourth anniversary Magnificent Mile (www.magmilerace.com), presented by Quintiles Corp., will crop abode on Sunday, September 13, 2009 in city Raleigh, N.C. The fundraising accident includes one-mile runs and walks, as able-bodied as added family-friendly activities. Notable sports, business and ball personalities are lending their access to accumulate accord in the event. Proceeds account the Spastic Paraplegia Foundation and advice armamentarium analysis grants awarded to acquisition a cure for high motor neuron diseases.
The husband-and-wife aggregation of Dave Kent, KISS FM on-air personality, and Kelcey Carlson, WRAL TV anchor, will be emceeing the event. Challenging association to "Beat the Old Man," is CASL CEO Charlie Slagle, 57, who aswell hosts the Back of the Net radio program.
The Carolina RailHawks will accord $2 from every developed admission awash for the Saturday, September 12 bold adjoin the Puerto Rico Islanders. To adjustment tickets go to www.carolinarailhawks.com and access magmile in the promo code. In addition, Swoops, the aggregation mascot, will be on duke the day of the event, alternating with several players, coaches and managers who will be signing autographs and accommodating in the race.
Kim Reynolds, co-owner and abettor of the Second Empire Restaurant and Tavern, is a longtime adherent of The Magnificent Mile. Start and finishes for the contest will be amid one block from the restaurant. Registration and accident activities will be amid alongside the restaurant on Harrington Street, and the awards celebration will be captivated on the restaurant's veranda.
"The abutment provides a amazing affecting addition for me and for all the individuals ambidextrous with the confusion of motor neuron disease," says Sarah Roberts-Witt, co-founder of The Magnificent Mile. "It's a affecting admonition that there are many, abounding humans who affliction about us and the challenges we face."
The Magnificent Mile includes men's and women's aggressive one-mile contest that serve as the USATF North Carolina State one-mile championship. In addition, it offers a one-mile recreational run/walk and kids' races. This accident is the aboriginal of the eight-race Second Empire Grand Prix Series, and will aswell cover entertainment, aliment and added fun activities. Additionally, organizers seek to animate acceptable and environmentally acquainted activities. The Magnificent Mile is allotment of Endurance Magazine's Race Without a Trace initiative.
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.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Sponsors Thanked for Longtime Support of The Magnificent Mile
Sarah Roberts-Witt, organizer and afflatus abaft The Magnificent Mile (www.magmilerace.com), is giving appropriate acknowledgment to four longtime sponsors that accept accurate The Magnificent Mile throughout anniversary of its aboriginal four years.
Lenovo, The Athlete's Foot, Umstead Park United Church of Christ and Aquatic Physical Therapy & Beyond accept all been a active force abaft The Magnificent Mile's success back its birth in 2006.
"These four organizations got abaft us appropriate from the alpha with no hesitation," says Roberts-Witt. "Their captivation is what has enabled us to abound this accident in agreement of alluring added sponsors and extensive added humans in our community."
The fourth anniversary Magnificent Mile, presented by Quintiles and Lenovo, will crop abode on Sunday, September 13, 2009 in city Raleigh. Proceeds account the Spastic Paraplegia Foundation. In its aboriginal three years, about 1,500 participants accept helped accession added than $100,000 to armamentarium analysis into high motor neuron diseases. More than 750 participants are accepted at the 2009 event.
"We at Aquatic Physical Therapy & Beyond accept proudly sponsored The Magnificent Mile for four years," says Kristi Olivotti, advance concrete therapist and co-owner of Aquatic Physical Therapy & Beyond. "We feel it not alone supports individuals with PLS and Spastic Paraplegia, but aswell brings greater acquaintance to their plight."
Roberts-Witt aswell announces added sponsors of the 2009 Magnificent Mile:
Platinum Sponsors:
•Articulon
•Bronto Software
•Capital Area Soccer League
•Carolina RailHawks
Gold Sponsors:
•Kramer Acupuncture
•Nix Design
•Oak Grove Technologies
•Off to Run Personal Training
•ProActive Performance Centers
•Raleigh Downtowner
•Triangle Boulevard TV
The Magnificent Mile includes men's and women's aggressive one-mile contest that serve as the USATF North Carolina State one-mile championship. In addition, it offers a one-mile recreational run/walk and kids' races. This accident is the aboriginal of the eight-race Second Empire Grand Prix Series, and will aswell cover entertainment, aliment and added fun activities. Additionally, organizers seek to animate acceptable and environmentally acquainted activities. The Magnificent Mile is allotment of Endurance Magazine's Race Without a Trace initiative.
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.
Brian Van Norman
919.232.5008
brian@articulon.com
Lenovo, The Athlete's Foot, Umstead Park United Church of Christ and Aquatic Physical Therapy & Beyond accept all been a active force abaft The Magnificent Mile's success back its birth in 2006.
"These four organizations got abaft us appropriate from the alpha with no hesitation," says Roberts-Witt. "Their captivation is what has enabled us to abound this accident in agreement of alluring added sponsors and extensive added humans in our community."
The fourth anniversary Magnificent Mile, presented by Quintiles and Lenovo, will crop abode on Sunday, September 13, 2009 in city Raleigh. Proceeds account the Spastic Paraplegia Foundation. In its aboriginal three years, about 1,500 participants accept helped accession added than $100,000 to armamentarium analysis into high motor neuron diseases. More than 750 participants are accepted at the 2009 event.
"We at Aquatic Physical Therapy & Beyond accept proudly sponsored The Magnificent Mile for four years," says Kristi Olivotti, advance concrete therapist and co-owner of Aquatic Physical Therapy & Beyond. "We feel it not alone supports individuals with PLS and Spastic Paraplegia, but aswell brings greater acquaintance to their plight."
Roberts-Witt aswell announces added sponsors of the 2009 Magnificent Mile:
Platinum Sponsors:
•Articulon
•Bronto Software
•Capital Area Soccer League
•Carolina RailHawks
Gold Sponsors:
•Kramer Acupuncture
•Nix Design
•Oak Grove Technologies
•Off to Run Personal Training
•ProActive Performance Centers
•Raleigh Downtowner
•Triangle Boulevard TV
The Magnificent Mile includes men's and women's aggressive one-mile contest that serve as the USATF North Carolina State one-mile championship. In addition, it offers a one-mile recreational run/walk and kids' races. This accident is the aboriginal of the eight-race Second Empire Grand Prix Series, and will aswell cover entertainment, aliment and added fun activities. Additionally, organizers seek to animate acceptable and environmentally acquainted activities. The Magnificent Mile is allotment of Endurance Magazine's Race Without a Trace initiative.
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.
Brian Van Norman
919.232.5008
brian@articulon.com
Record Turnout for The Magnificent Mile
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
"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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