3rd Annual Manhattan Strides for Life
This year, Team JPS Bubbles will hold it's 3rd Annual Manhattan Strides for Life on Sunday, August 13th. Since Covid has permanently cancelled the event in Southampton - we have adjusted accordingly and brought the 3 miler to Manhattan! This event holds such a special place in my heart that I couldn't imagine not being able to participate - so I created my own!
In 2008 Team JPS (named for my late father, J. Phillip Snyder) participated in it's first Strides for Life race. We were just a small team of 3 and have now grown into something I never could have imagined. Losing my Dad in just 6 short weeks to Lung Cancer in 2001 changed my life forever. He was my favorite person and there is not a day that goes by where I don't think of him; don't miss him; don't wish he was here with us today. When I found out about Strides I knew that it was something I needed to participate in. It's the perfect way to honor him; doing something I love to raise awareness for the terrible disease that took his life.
In 2014 my dear friend Dana and her family suffered the terrible loss of "Bubbles" and I asked them to join our team. In the years since, Team JPS Bubbles has raised ~$112,000 on behalf of LCRF. I am honored that every year my friends and family participate and/or donate to this cause which I hold so dear. I know the money we raise won't bring my Dad or Dana's Nannie back to us. But I can only hope that it helps to shed more light on how to cure this disease and that one day lung cancer will be a thing of the past.
So please consider joining our team and/or making a donation. Your support means the world to me and to Team JPS Bubbles!
xoxo
Gambrelle
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