I heard from one of our favorite Team Reevers this week, Nancy Ansheles, who first ran with us in NYC in 2009. She continues to help spread the mission of the Reeve Foundation as a member of Team Reeve, this year at the Twin Cities Marathon in Minnesota. Here's her report: Read More

Just wanted to pass along Nicole's words of appreciation and inspiration. She ran with Team Reeve NYC 2010 & Marine Corps 2011. Another one of those instances of the power of we and Team Reeve!

Leigh Alspach
Manager, Team Reeve

Dear Leigh and everyone at Team Reeve,

I would like to share with you something wonderful and very meaningful. Read More

How funny is it when someone writes to you thanking you for letting them run 26.2 miles!

Leigh:

I wanted to thank you for everything you did that made this such an awesome experience. You covered all the bases and made it real easy. It has been a crazy week. All the preperation and then the big day and I cannot believe it's all over.

Today, I looked at the clock remebering where I was last Sunday at this time and had fun reliving the coolest day ever.

I'm hoping you will keep me in mind for next year. I am already tweaking my fundraising and training stratgegies and if I get the opportunity, I will improve on both.

Ned Norton

Norton (pictured here) ran for Team Reeve in last November's ING New York City Marathon. He raised over $4,000.00.

He is doing all this from his Warriors Gym (Home of the Warriors on Wheels) in Albany, NY. Norton is a former Olympic trainer and body builder. The thing about him is that he is not injured. He does not have any close freinds or family that are injured. Norton was just working at the gym and saw first hand what a certain level of fitness brought to people living with disabilities both for their mind and body.

Get more information and fitness and rehab in the Paralysis Resource Center.

Find out more about Warriors on Wheels @ 518-427-1462.

Join Team Reeve. It's not just about marathons, so don't be scared off!

Leigh A. Alspach
Manager, Team Reeve®
Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
 

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I just want to take a minute to share with you a little about one of our most amazing Team Reeve athletes, John Carson (pictured).

John sustained a spinal cord injury at the C5/6 level (most injuries at this level result in quadriplegia, lack of hand function) one year and seven months ago on July 16, 2009. He was out training for a triathlon on his bike and was hit by an SUV. In the moments after the accident, John was in and out of consciousness, not fully knowing what was happening, but he knew for sure his life would never be the same.

John's family immediately reached out to our Paralysis Resource Center for answers and resources. As an athlete, he and his family knew he needed something beyond regaining the ability to walk to motivate him each day in physical rehabilitation. He set his sights on the Ford Ironman Lake Placid on July 25, 2010 -- just over a year after his injury.

The thing that I want to share with you that I think is most amazing about John, and I felt it from the moment I first spoke with him on the phone, despite all he and his family have been through in the last year plus, it's always been about others. He asked me if he could wear the Reeve Foundation colors and Team Reeve logo to help spread awareness of the work we continue to do, now that our most recognizable leaders are gone. He set his fundraising goal and to date has raised over $10,000 to support our foundation programs. For Chistmas last year, he asked his friends and family to forego regular gifts and donate to his fundraising page instead.

John is truly all we can ask for in an athlete, a volunteer, and an advocate of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. I can't tell you the number of times I've used John as an example of what you can do when faced with adversity and I believe he is an inspiration and mentor to our entire community.

You can read more about John here.

Read more stories about our Team Reeve members.


Leigh A. Alspach
Manager, Team Reeve®

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