So you like to walk?
I’m looking for people who like long treks for a cause—actually several causes.
Please join me for any—or all–of these events.
I will do
the MS Walk in Fairhaven as a member of Team Deb “Awesome” August on April 6. This is three miles on a Sunday morning to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis research. I know three people currently fighting the disease, including Deb, and have lost several more to it over the course of my life.
Hungry for a Walk
My second walk is the 20 mile Walk for Hunger on May 4. It starts and ends at Boston Common after looping through Brookline, Newton, Watertown, and Cambridge. This is the first official Walking with Jane event of the year and serves as training for the Relay for Life as well as raising money to feed hungry people across the Commonwealth.
Our team treks through the afternoon, evening, night and morning…
May also brings a competitive 5K run that is also a walk to support the Tripp Family Scholarships. I have no details on this yet, but I run it each year, and will post details once I have them.
Walk all day, Walk all night
The rest of the events all have a cancer focus, starting with the Greater Fall River Relay for Life at Bishop Connolly High School on June 27-28. Our Walking with Jane team treks through the afternoon, evening, night and morning to raise money for general cancer research and patient support through the American Cancer Society. Relays are held around the world on a variety of dates, so if you are not in the local area, you can find a Relay to participate in somewhere near you. If you want to form a Walking with Jane team for one of these, I certainly will not object and will give you what help I can. If you are in the local area, please join us for the event. We hold a number of fundraisers before the event—as well as at the event—and always need help to make them happen. In the last three years we have raised nearly $20,000 for this event.
…feed hungry people across the Commonwealth.
Last year I took part in the annual Run, Walk, or Crawl—We won’t lay down to cancer 5K event in Avon. The date for this year has not yet been set, but I will be there. We have no team for this event, but I certainly encourage you to join me in supporting it. It benefits the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and its work.
The Marathon Walk
Our final walk of the year is the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk on September 22. For Walking with Jane, this is our most important walk because all the money our team raises goes to support the Jane Dybowski Fund for Neuroendocrine and Carcinoid Cancer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which funds research by DFCI’s Program in Neuroendocrine and Carcinoid Tumors. Since the formation of our joint team with the Caring for Carcinoid Foundation, we have raised over $40,000 to support that research into the cancer that killed Jane. This year, we hope to equal that amount in a single year, which would give us a three-year total of over $80,000.
I’m looking for people who want to walk…
Please join me for any—or all–of these events.
