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GOODBYE SUMMER
Celebrate the last long weekend of summer vacation at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Virginia Beach Half Marathon with NFE. You can follow Steve, Joe and the NFE crew in Virginia Beach on Twitter (@NFEndurance). The NFE VA Beach Team has raised more than $17,000 for NF research. You can help them meet their fundraising goal by visiting the team page. Are you as excited about the fall season as we are? Check out our fall schedule here.
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Check out how the Ogle family organized a successful 5K in honor of Leo Ogle in this article. Read how they got creative when they ran out of bib numbers.
HOT, HOT, HOT
QUESTION Check out Dr. Kim’s answers to questions from the Foundation community about NF. She will be taking questions throughout the year — stay tuned!
WATCH
Trapped in indoors because of Hurricane Earl? Our training expert Anna Renderer’s treadmill blast will keep your training on track with this video showing a challenging set of exercises.
Active Fundraising Page of the Week
Check out Susan Keegan’s fundraising page here. She tells her story through well placed pictures, a compelling narrative and a clearly stated goal.
TAKE FIVE Five tips from Active.com on how to run in better form.
Krissy Diaz "pies" Anne Shigley at the Long Island Marathon in May.
From March 15, 2010 – April 15, 2010, there was a friendly competition between the NF Endurance team captains. The team who raised the most money to find a cure for NF would win. The losers? Well, they would be hit with a cream pie.
The NFE Flying Pig team managed to save Chaun Steiner from a pie fight. Check out the above video of one of the losing captains, Joe Gunn, who is “pied-in-the-face” by NF Hero Anneliese. Joe actually came up with the idea for the pie fundraising contest. It looks like Joe’s great idea came back to hit him in the face!
Below is video of Elaine Keating, captain of the NFE Cleveland Team, who got creamed this weekend at the Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon by her son, Jacob Keating. “I was so nervous about it but I convinced Chaun to do it AFTER the race so I didn’t taste lemon for 26.2 miles,” said Elaine.
STRIKE OUT NF
Join the Tyrybon Family for the fourth annual “Bowling with Noah” to benefit the Children’s Tumor Foundation on Friday, May 7th at Parkway Lanes in Trenton, Mich. The $15 ticket covers three games, shoe rental and pizza. Please RSVP to (Enable Javascript to see the email address) with the names of your team so they can reserve a lane. To learn more about Noah and the Tyrybon’s mission to find a cure, please visit Team Noah.
TEND BAR
Jill Cromwell be the guest bartender at Epstein’s Bar (82 Stanton Street/ New York, N.Y.) on Friday, May 7th in her fundraising efforts for the ING NYC Marathon. She’ll be there from 8:30 p.m. – 2:10 a.m., but if you can’t make it out, you can check her fundraising page.
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JoAnne Pastel, the founder and creator of the Bur Bur and Friends Children’s Books series, recently added a new character to her line up. Nina is Bur Bur’s 2-year-old sister and she has NF1. Pastel will be doing promotions as well with the proceeds coming to the Children’s Tumor Foundation. Click here to meet Nina and friends.
INDY MINI
Joe Gunn will captain NFE at the OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon, leading more than 30 runners on May 8, 2010. The NFE Indy Team has met their fundraising goal, raising more than $13,000 for NF research.
THANK MOM
The NF Endurance Team is full of inspiring people and we are lucky to have a lot of great moms who set an example of meeting multiple goals every day. Many volunteer their “spare time” to help make our events successful. A special thank you to the ladies in the Endurance office: Trish, Beth, Suzanne, Molly, Valerie and Tracy. These women work so hard to ensure that runners have a memorable experience while also balancing being full time moms.
If you are interested in running on Mother’s Day, Active has a list of runs dedicated just for mom. Find a race near you here.
GOODBYE SUMMER
Check out Dr. Kim’s answers to questions from the Foundation community about NF. She will be taking questions throughout the year — stay tuned!
