Team GoForGabs is back! It’s
2021 race time!! This year we are doing
both LIVE and VIRTUAL races so
everyone can participate regardless of your vaccination status and your feeling
about being in crowds.
GoForGabs was formed in 2013
with our first race in Hartford when our family and friends participated in the marathon
and the kids’ fun run as part of the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
team. Since then we have participated in several races and different events
raising more than $55,000 for various groups in support of pediatric cancer
research.
Now, 9 years later, our kids are older and none of us are
running anymore marathons but we continue to raise money for CT Children’s and
pediatric cancer research. Cancer continues to impact our family in ways
that we could never fully describe. GoForGabs is our
way to honor our daughter Gabriella who continues to fight every day, our
family and friends who have been by our side through each reoccurrence and
treatment, and all families who have experienced having a child with
cancer. It is a forever changing experience and we pray for everyone
battling this horrible disease.
We hope you will join the 2021 GoForGabs Team to
run or walk at a location of your choice on Saturday, October 9. We are
hoping to all be together and walk in Hartford at the actual event but
depending upon the COVID situation as that date gets closer, we may hold a
repeat of our hometown 5k in our Wethersfield neighborhood. Wherever you chose
to walk or run, please help us to raise money for CT Children’s and all the
care and support they provide to their pediatric patients and their
families. As one of those families, we are so very thankful for all that
their doctors and nurses do, especially during challenging times.
Please consider joining our team and supporting CT Children’s in
any way you can. We appreciate everyone’s support.