P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon

P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon & 1/2 Marathon starts in Phoenix, continues through Scottsdale, and finishes in Tempe, Arizona. There is live music every mile, and hopefully Phoenix will have its perfect winter weather in place for the day of the P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon & 1/2 Marathon.

Really a three-day event, there's a Health & Fitness Expo for the two days prior to the actual races. Today, not only is the House on Pleasant Street Sherry prosperous in the exercise of Why Me mission, but it is expanding its programs and activities to ensure a reassuring presence for families coping with the dreaded disease.“In this first, we had about 55 to 60 people and raised about $ 155,000,

I threw a number of trying to raise one million,” said Terry Shepherd, why Sherry’s & me House co- founder and executive director. Her daughter Sherry was in pediatric oncology a patient in the first UMass Memorial Medical Center while fighting against non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Sherry, with her parents, formed Why me shortly before she lost her battle against cancer at age 13 in August 1985.Pearce is raising money for Camp Soaring Eagle , a camp for children with serious or life threatening illness.

While gearing up for the marathon, Pearce had the idea that he would try to help out an organization in need.

Pearce forged a relationship through golf with Camp Soaring Eagle a couple of years ago and figured the camp would be a perfect fit for what he was trying to do.team became a family affair for Lockbaum. Son Gordie, now 21, and her 13 years, Olivia is in the half-marathon this weekend, and his wife Denise ran in four events Sherry House team. “We all take ownership of this responsibility to give back,” the 45-year Lockbaum said, “being involved in charities, it is a grassroots organization that really resonates with us.”

Phil Renaud Brimfield was also with Sherry’s All-Stars from the start, and his wife, Tammy, and daughter Sarah are working as well. A manufacturer, Renaud heard a radio ad in 1999 looking for members of the team, and he was taken a little time.

“Ultimately, why I wanted to participate, is that as a father, I felt very lucky,” said Renaud, 48. “My daughter was 8 or 9 years old then, and good health. What motivated me was to realize how lucky I was, and I could do something here and Terry opened the possibility.