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Meet The Team….

Tomorrow, I will run with my team of angels, Trek, Jacob, Kaitlyn, Quinn, Lily, Riley, Faith and Amber and Wylder  at the , Ghost Train 100 endurance race.                                         October is

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Ghost Train 100 – Virtual Pacer Silent Auction

Most of you know about the injury which occurred at my last 100 mile race attempt on June 15, 2013.  Since then, I have aggressively sought to overcome this adversity.  I have made many changes in my training including adding rolling,

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Firsts…

A couple of weeks ago, I was traveling with an engineer I had recently hired to Philadelphia.  After boarding, I was looking through my schedule for the week and realized that she and I had a scheduled one on one

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Wylder’s Research Project

In preparation for the Boston Marathon, we held a playlist fund raiser where employees donated $5 and selected a song to be put on the my playlist during the marathon.  It was a great fund raiser and inspired some real

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2013 NORD Gala

Last Tuesday night, I was honored to attend the NORD Gala with fellow team members Kai and Kristen.   The Gala celebrated 30 years since passage of the Orphan Drug Act and included moving speeches from some of the most influencial

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Habits and Opportunities

There are 3 elements of a habit: a trigger, a routine and a reward. For example, my morning starts at 4:15 AM when my alarm goes off – the trigger.  Having planned the previous evening to meet a co-worker at

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NORD Online Silent Auction Open

The outpouring of support this year has been fantastic.  We presently have near 80 items up on the Online Silent Auction and more to be added.  We will continue to take donations right up until the closing of the auction on

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Meet Stephanie Hunt & Son Donnie

The United States is home to approximately three hundred and eight million people.  Of those three hundred and eight million people, one in one hundred to two hundred and fifty thousand children are diagnosed with Rubinstein Taybi Syndrome.  And it

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Simply Connect

A loved one passed away this week shortly after turning 100 years old.  She really was an unbelievable woman.  If she didn’t answer the door, she was probably out in the garden, raking the leaves in the back yard or

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7 at 7 before 7

This morning, before 7 AM, Matt and I ran 7 miles at a temperature of 7 degrees; the first two miles of which were miserable.  We ran into a cold head wind for the first 3.5 miles which fortunately turned into a tail wind for the last

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