Many of you know me, and know how much fitness means to me. The ability to walk, move and exercise is something I never take for granted. Discovering running later in my life has been such an amazing blessing. The friendships and experiences that running has given me is unmatched. While I love signing up for races for the sport of it, I was compelled to run my next races fundraising for Jar of Hope. Being a charity started by a dad in my town of Manalapan, trying to save his son, his Jamesy’s life, who was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. 

“Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is one of the rarest diseases on Earth. DMD is a fatal, muscle-wasting disease you are born with. It occurs once in every 3,500 live births and effects mostly boys. In the United States, with a population of over 330,000,000 people, only about 20,000 children are stricken with Duchenne. And there is no cure.

Our goal is to find a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. With organized fundraising events and support from you, we can continue our mission and turn the dream of finding a cure into a reality.”

I can’t imagine waking every morning and putting one foot in front of the other like James and Karen, along with their daughters do. The strength and unrelenting passion that goes into everything they do in their mission to save the first child with Duchenne is nothing sheer of remarkable. 

Please consider donating anything you can as I will be running the 5k and 10k races in January at Disney with the hope that maybe a dollar I raised helped save a child. No amount is too small. A bunch of a little something adds up to something remarkable. And maybe I’ll bake you up some cookies as a big ole thank you