Why would anyone plan to run 26.2 miles: running 4-5 days a week, running 14-30 miles a week, often running alone, training for up to 20 weeks, enduring rain, heat and humidity and recovering each week from every ache and pain imaginable? Why?

To remember and honor our son, brother, friend, cousin… Sam Sewall.

Sam died from cancer 15 years ago, but not after fighting like hell to live and live well. Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota and their staff and clinicians were with us for those 2 years. They provided amazing medical care as well as care for the whole child through the staff and programs in Child Life. We have an endowment in Sam’s memory which goes to support Child Life Services for the Hematology and Oncology program at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics.

So I am running to honor Sam and support Children’s Hospitals and Clinics and the Samuel Billington Sewall endowment. 

Would you join me in this endeavor by contributing to my page? My target goal is modest. $100 per mile…$2620.  I imagine that together we can do twice this if not more. You can sponsor a mile in memory of Sam. You can encourage me on by donating $26.20 or $262. 

Join me in helping to support the great programs at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics, provide needed support programs through Child Life Services and remember Sam.

If you don’t try, how will you ever know?  This was how Sam lived his life. He taught us well.

On October 4th, 2015, I will try. Try to run 26.2 miles, try to finish and try like hell to beat my fundraising goal to support Children’s.

I hope you will join me.

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