Our friend Mike Keohane is organizing a relay fun run to honor Doug Stern and raise funds for Kidney Cancer Research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. For those who did not know Doug, he was an inspirational and much loved figure in the local running, swimming and triathlon community. Among other things, he was a gifted swimming coach, he invented Deep-Water Running classes, he hosted the Highland Triathlon and he was the leader of the Bandit Catchers for the New York City Marathon. Doug died suddenly last year from Kidney Cancer. Last December at the first Jingle Bell Run in his honor $2,700 was raised for MSKCC. The goal this year is to raise $5,000. Information from Mike Keohane about the run is posted below:

MARK YOUR CALENDAR:
Tuesday Dec 16
6:30pm

New this year:
4 person relay
Get your TEAM together!

Each runner runs 1 UPPER loop (1.4 miles) of Central Park. E-mail your team, names to:
mike@mkcoaching.com
 
Start, exchange area, and finish will be on 102nd St transverse. 

Donation: $10 per bell

Each bell will be wrapped with a “Doug Stern” ribbon

Donate $50 or more and receive a
2nd Jingle Bell Run for Doug t-shirt! 
 
Post-relay PARTY at 
Super Runners Shop, 89th St and Lexington Ave
 
Make checks payable to:
MSKCC
“In memory of Doug Stern”
Kidney Cancer Research
 
$2700 was donated from the 1st Doug Run in 2007.
2008 goal: $5000
For any further information please contact Mike Keohane at: