My Breakthrough
ING New York City Marathon
2 November 2008
See the sights of the city that never sleeps and run for Breakthrough in the Big Apple! From the Statue of Liberty to Central Park, the route will take you through the five boroughs of New York for an experience of a lifetime. The ING New York City Marathon is the largest marathon in the world and now you can be part of it!
Entry
All of Breakthrough’s guaranteed places for this year’s event are now full. If you have your own place through the online entry system we would be delighted to have you on the Breakthrough team. For your runner’s pack and free Breakthrough running vest email jessicak@breakthrough.org.uk or call 020 7025 2483.
Runners
All runners will receive:
- Top quality Breakthrough running vest
- Marathon training plan in association with realbuzz.com
- Fundraising pack including sponsor forms and fundraising tips
- Online sponsorship facility to help with your fundraising
- Runners' online discussion group
- Full support from a designated member of Breakthrough staff
- Tour of the Breakthrough Research Centre
Fundraising
Fundraising can be a daunting task but the Breakthrough team will be on hand to help you all the way. When you receive your runner’s pack this will include plenty of fundraising advice and ideas but if you would like to get started now please take a look at our fundraising tips.
Fundraising Online
Fundraising is now even easier as you can do all your fundraising online at www.justgiving.com/breakthrough.
It takes 5 minutes to create your online fundraising page which you can then email to all your contacts who can sponsor you online.
To get started, click www.justgiving.com/breakthrough and choose the New York City Marathon option. You will be asked to write a few words about yourself and hey presto, your page will be generated. You will then receive emails instructing you how to send your page to your friends and family.
For further information
Running Teamrunning@breakthrough.org.uk
Tel: 020 7025 2422
