MOUNTAIN LAKES — Before you celebrate with family and football, start your Thanksgiving by burning a few calories, catching up with old friends and neighbors, or making new friends by trotting around Mountain Lakes to support cure-focused research and the empowerment of children living with Type 1 diabetes. Walkers are welcome too.
The event will take place at Mountain Lakes Club, 18 Lake Drive and registration (or packet pick-up) begins at 7:30 a.m.
For information and registration details click here.
The course is USATF-Certified 5K Course (Results by Split Second Racing).
There will be awards in multiple age groups and female and male finishers as well as Athletes living with Type 1 diabetes. There will also be an award for top three stroller finishers.
Registration fee of $30.00 if registered by November 21, otherwise $35.00 the day of the event.
The Turkey Trot being organized by Type 1 Will Power is inspired by Mountain Lakes resident, eight year old William Oliver.
Diagnosed at the age of four, William has chosen to embrace the world from this day forward, focusing on what he must do every day to lead the life he has imagined, rather than dwelling on why he contracted a disease that has not yet been cured.
To achieve the stable blood glucose levels needed to perform at his best, William must carefully balance his insulin doses with the carbohydrates he eats, his activity levels and countless other factors such as growth spurts, adrenaline rushes, heat and humidity, stress, and illnesses as minor as the common cold.
Left no option but to mature more quickly than should be expected of any child, William exerts Type 1 Willpower every moment of every day as he learns to manage this relentless disease on his own.
Every morning, 1.25 million people wake up in America, check their blood glucose levels, and continue the battle against Type 1 diabetes, a chronic autoimmune disease that presently has no cure.
To lead full and active lives in the face of this 24/7 disease, people living with Type 1 diabetes confront difficult choices on a constant basis, exerting uncommon willpower in pursuit of the stable blood glucose levels that the majority of Americans take for granted.
The self control exercised by Type 1 diabetics – their Type 1 Willpower – is truly remarkable. We admire it. We are inspired by it. We celebrate it.
