Save the date: May 30, 2015. Enjoy a 5K in Oxford or stroll a mere ½ mile.
Those are the new events in the Second Annual Oxford Biathlon –a river swim and bike ride– to raise funds to find a cure for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
The swimmers will swim the 1-mile distance across the Tred Avon River between Bellevue and Oxford as a part of “Sharkfest.” Then some will join cyclists to ride the 20-mile loop from Oxford to Royal Oak, down to Bellevue and across the river for a final leg by ferry.
More than 2.5 million people worldwide suffer from this rare neuromuscular disorder—some 250 of them within 50 miles of Easton. The odd name comes from the names of the three physicians who isolated it in the 1800s—Jean Marie Charcot, Pierre Marie, and Howard Henry Tooth. Still there is no cure.
The Easton CMTA support group has teamed with its counterpart in Baltimore to stage this multi-faceted event in Oxford. Lunch and a T-shirt are included with each participant’s registration. Or come to support the swimmers, walkers and cyclists and enjoy lunch for a separate fee at The Masthead at Pier Street, 104 W. Pier Street, Oxford, which will serve as event headquarters for the day.
During lunch, the Free ‘n Easy Band will play, and a silent auction will continue with such delights as a “crab feast,” a handmade quilt, a beautiful Salisbury Pewter tray featuring the Chesapeake Bay. So bring your checkbook and further help raise funds for a cure for CMT.
Learn more and register on-line for your desired event in the Oxford Biathlon by going to “cmtausa.org/oxbi” where all proceeds will support the CMTA’s drug development program known as STAR—the Strategy to Advance Research.
Ruey Warfield says
Thanks so much for giving us a boost for this big (to us, anyway) event. MW