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Running for Big Mike!

Kamden Watson
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Kamden Watson

This cause is dear to me because, this past month, we lost a member of our family living with autism. Big Mike was a beautiful soul who remembered every important date in my life, since Evanne and I were married. Rain or shine, we would open the mail on an important holiday, birthday or anniversary and there was a card waiting for us from Big Mike. The man was a giant in both stature and love. Come race day, I’m running for the chance to have him run with me, and hopefully experience something he could never do while he graced us with his presence on Earth. This run is for Uncle Mike Center.

WHY RUN FOR AUTISM?

Here are some of the ways that OAR uses the funds raised by the RUN FOR AUTISM team:

$10 provides a Curriculum in a Box professional development set to general education teachers.
$25 provides 15 copies of A Guide to Safety to families and first responders.
$100 provides the Kit for Kids peer education resource to an entire elementary or middle school.
$150 provides 100 copies of a Life Journey through Autism guidebook sent to a community support group or military installation.
$1,000 provides a research grant for a graduate student studying autism.
$3,000 provides a scholarship for a student with autism to attend college.
$40,000 fully underwrites an applied research pilot study.
OCT
7

Hello everyone! We have beat our goal of 2k by over a thousand dollars!!!! Today, was my final run, a 5k, before Sunday's marathon. I want you to know that every time we took the starting line, we showed up for a bigger cause then our every day lives. I get emotional every time I look at this homepage, and it's because of your heartfelt and generous donations, Big Mike and I will be able to run a race of celebration and love! My deepest appreciation to all of you and I'll see you on the starting line.

OCT
3

Hi everyone, we have run over 600 miles this year training for this Sunday. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you for all your support as there’s just a few more days to push us over the goal! This one is for Mike!

SEP
26

Okay team, we are t-minus 13 days until Chicago Marathon. So far this month, 117 miles have been clocked in training. We have only 607 dollars left to go on our goal of 2K for running for Big Mike and Autism Research. Any little bit helps and thank you for your continued support.

AUG
29
JUN
2

So far so great team! Posted fastest mile on the 31st, with 6:43. Thank you for your continued support and please share so we can crush the goal of 2k! Thank you for the good vibes.

APR
28

Update on training. Posted fastest 5k since I was in high school. 21:35! Thank you to those that can and have supported. I hope you know that every dollar counts and am so thankful for your inspiration

APR
10

Weekly goal currently is to run 30 miles a week, with an average pace of 7:40 or less a mile.

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$3,113
raised of $2,000 goal
 

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