WOW what an event

So Saturday, October 9, 2010 began at an early 5:00 a.m. at Covenant United Methodist Church setting up tables, water stations, coolers of water, coffee, registration tables, tshirts, raffle tickets and items and MUCH more! We started at about 5:15 a.m. getting all of this ready for the registrants to begin showing up at 7:00 a.m. on the dot and the run to start at 8:00 a.m. on the dot. We were blessed with BEAUTIFUL weather and fabulous people that showed up to walk and run. The final number of participants was #59 and the money raised just on saturday topped $1400!!!!! Add that to the already over $8100 and, that's right, we raised over $9500 for Dystonia research! Not only is this $9500 in the bank but a huge impact for the educating our community in what Dystonia is. Many thanks go out to ALL of the volunteers that showed up and helped set up and break down and a special thanks to Allergan and Medtronics for setting up booths and helping educate people even further about what Dystonia is. I couldn't have pulled this off without each and every person there helping me out. We had volunteers drive as far as 4 hours away and we had runners from as far as 6 hours away. What a way to kick off a "first" in this area! This sets the bar high, and it is so early and I am still recovering but there is already lots of talk about next year! Maybe we can exceed our monies and attendance from this year, huh!?!? Thanks again to you all and thank you all for going the Dystance4Dystonia!!!

~Rebecca

October 9.... here we come

Well a huge thank you to all of you who helped out on Saturday, the 2nd, to start getting everything together for next weekend! After everyone left, we did a final 'walk through' of the route, measured the 5k and the 1 mile, made a 'mental picture' of what everything was going to look like next week and are just hoping for the best! If you will ALL please be at Covenant by 6:30 a.m. to be help final touches of setting up as well as to get t-shirts on and volunteer tags, that would be great. Also, please wear jeans or khakis (whatever makes you comfortable) and be prepared to get a t-shirt that morning to put on. Thank you all again for everything and I will see you Saturday!

"It is really going to happen!!!"

So in came our t-shirts today!!!!! :-)