Through three years of running the NYC Marathon with Fred’s Team, Burke’s Team has raised over $100,000 and collected 22 finisher medals! Now, we’re back…

... and we’ve grown (again)!
After three successful years, I am so excited to share that Burke’s Team will be 15 deep as we hit all 5 boroughs on the first Sunday of November. In addition to the return of Steve Chuk (2021), Joe Conley (2022), Jill Green (2023), Angela Munro (2023) and Brittany Pitonzo (2022), we have 9 new members for Burke’s Team: Greg Arbogast, Katie and Jed Moyer, Sarah Chuk, Annie Stehley, Liz Busch, Anna Sholl, JC Espinoza and my mom Colleen Miller! Our new team is a mix of first-time marathoners and wily vets and we are ready to hit the streets on November 3, 2024 for the 53rd running of the world’s greatest race.
A little bit about the creation of Burke’s Team and why we’re running to support Fred’s Team and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center:
In September 2020, I was diagnosed with cancer for the second time in my 30s. As the father of two (now 3!) little kids, the news was hard on my family and I relied very heavily on running as a way to limit stress. It worked. Running also worked when I used it to recover from my surgeries and procedures. I have often joked that since my second diagnosis, running has been my therapy – physical and psycho. One of those surgeries was especially intensive and required a 10-day inpatient stay at Sloan over New Year's 2021. I had been cut from groin to sternum and was in the most pain of my life; as salt in the wound, it was Covid so I was in the hospital alone, without my family. For my stay, I did what any reasonable 30-something father of 2 would do in the hospital – watched movies like Brittany Runs a Marathon. Inspired by that story, I told myself that not only was I going to beat cancer and get better, but that I was going to go big; I was going to run the NYC Marathon 10 months later. I texted two of my closest friends Brian Case and Steve Chuk – who had been doubling as my therapy team – and said, “Sloan has a NYC marathon team.” They immediately responded that if I run a marathon, they’d run with me.
And Burke’s Team was formed! We have come a long way since then and even got some good press along the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOszzRANu3A.
The people at Sloan were amazing and I am forever grateful for the incredible care they took of me on M5 during the hardest ten days of my life. I have no doubt that if we are so bold as to “Imagine a world without cancer” then they are the ones who can deliver it. This faith in Sloan and desire to win the war against this disease once and for all inspires every member of Burke's Team. So we run; and, we raise money to fight a disease that touches us all and does so far too often.
Please consider giving, and remember that 100% of your donations will go to cancer research at one of the best cancer institutes in the entire world. Don't forget to follow us on social media with #burkesteam and @burkesteam on Instagram.
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Why? 100% of your donations go directly into MSK research! Named in honor of New York City Marathon co-founder and MSK patient Fred Lebow, Fred’s Team brings together passionate runners and supporters to make progress against cancer. Since 1995, Fred’s Team participants have raised over $110 million. 100% of funds raised go directly into MSK labs, where doctors and scientists have expertise in more than 400 types of cancer and work every day to find new cures.

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