the audacity to lope : I'll take my runners against your runners any day of the week. Charity runners op-ed -- a must read, along with the comments.

I'll take my runners against your runners any day of the week. Charity runners op-ed -- a must read, along with the comments.

runthistown:

Yes, I know the discussion has been carrying on long enough; however this is a good read from a DFMC teammate.

It is great if you’ve been able to run a marathon. It’s great if you’ve been able to qualify for the Boston Marathon. It’s great if you’ve been able to run a marathon for charity. If you have run a marathon, you know you have accomplished something that most people might never be able to. Be proud of that accomplishment—you are all great.

Charity runners—the runners who display camaraderie, and compassion, in an otherwise individual and personal goal-minded sport—and the teams for which they raise money, are what make the marathon special. I’m of course referring to the Boston Marathon. The charity runners might start 2nd, but the team always comes first for the BAA.

If you’re ever curious about how funding is being used to support cancer research, just ask the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team. Or, better yet, ask the researchers who are using the $4.5 million raised by the DFMC team in 2010—some of them are also running the Boston Marathon, including Barret Rollins, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Chief Scientific Officer, and Matthew Meyerson, the co-director of the Onco-map program.

Please follow some of my other DFMC teammates in 2011

The Audacity to lope - http://markloranger.com/

Justin Bourassa - http://leavefearinyourdust.tumblr.com/

Make a Run for it - http://runcaitierun.tumblr.com/

Marathon Mama - http://marathonmama.competitor.com/

Cancer free off and running - http://10yearscancerfree.blogspot.com/

Tony Brake - http://cancers-beantown-beatdown.blogspot.com/

Lost in Oggsford - http://lostinoggsford.blogspot.com/

Mille Motivi - http://mille-motivi.blogspot.com/

Running with optimists - http://jenrunsbostonfordfmc.blogspot.com/

Amanda Allen - http://www.amandarunsforacure.blogspot.com/

….and more soon!

the audacity to lope

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