SWIM BIKE RUN to ENDALZ

For several years now, I have done an annual run for the Alzheimer’s Association through its program called The Longest Day — now called Do What You Love to END ALZ. 

I turn 60 next week, and so I decided earlier this year to take on a challenge of completing a triathlon, and my daughter Brynn will be competing in it alongside me. Brain health is very much tied to heart health and I wanted to challenge myself to do something physical that I used to love to do and I haven’t done since I was about her age. 

So we’ve been swimming and running and ready to bike and participating in the Pleasant Valley Triathlon next Saturday morning, May 16. It will be a half-mile lake swim, then a 13 mile bike and finish with a 3.1 mile run. Brynn will finish well before me and hopefully come back out to finish with me. She completed her first triathlon a few years ago and did very well, so I’m excited to be able to do this with her. 

We are doing this to raise money for The Alzheimer’s Association, in honor of Mollie’s dad Tom Quakenbush, and in memory of my aunt Eleanor - and for the 240,000 other people in Ohio diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia and their caregivers.

Please consider making a small donation for our SWIM, BIKE and RUN to END ALZ challenge to support us and help us reach our fundraising goal. We’ll post some photos next weekend of the event - it should be a great day. Thanks everyone for the support.