Confirm That 2012 Race Calendar!

Time to start thinking about your race calendar for 2012 (if you haven’t already!). Some of our favorite, most popular events are up and running for your registration fun – the 2012 TD Five Boro Bike Tour, the Marine Corps Marathon, and the ING NYC Marathon.

Here’s a recap of last year’s events (enticing, no?!):

TD Five Boro Bike Tour

Hope For The Warriors® was a charity partner of the TD Five Boro Bike Tour, largest cycling event in America, for the first time in 2011.  Three combat wounded service members hit the streets of New York City on their custom built handcycles with Team Hope For The Warriors®.  Thirty-eight community Team members joined the masses (more than 32,000 cyclists!) on their wheels as well.  Forty-two miles of roads throughout the five boroughs of NYC are closed to traffic – no cars, taxis, buses…no way – for this event.  The race begins in lower Manhattan, winds through the heart of Manhattan, into Central Park, past historic Harlem and into the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn.  Riders finish by climb up and over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge into Staten Island to the large, outdoor festival at the end of the route.  

Tyson Keppler rocking the bridge

Check out the TD race website for more details – there’s a ton of great info!  Event history, environmental impact, bike safety, expo info…all you could ever need :) 

Except to register with Team Hope For The Warriors®, of course! 

Team Registration: $35 -- please keep in mind bikers are responsible for buying their race bibs as well!

Fundraising Minimum: $1,000

Please join us on Sunday, May 6 in NYC!! Register here: 2012 TD Five Boro Bank Tour

Email Sarah for more info on the TD Tour!

ING NYC Marathon

Only the biggest marathon in the world, no big thing.  Hope For The Warriors® is honored to be a charity partner of the ING NYC Marathon – the race attracting the highest number of international participants and spectators alike.  Imagine the opportunity to sport the Team jersey and raise awareness at a worldwide affair?! That’s just what 65 members of Team Hope For The Warriors® did on November 6, 2011.  After a year’s worth of training and fundraising, they culminated their efforts with 26.2 miles of pure NYC. 

Way to go Team!

Make November 4, 2012 mark your first marathon, your first marathon with the Team, your first NYC marathon with the Team…you name it, we hope to see you there!  

Jack Rosenhammer 'rucked' the entire marathon - for the 2nd time!

Registration: $216 (NYRR member), $255 (non-member)

Fundraising Minimum: $3,000

Make the 2012 ING NYC Marathon yours! Contact Sarah with any NYC Marathon questions.

Marine Corps Marathon

We would call this event ours if we could…hard to think of a more fitting way to honor the mission of Hope For The Warriors® and those we touch than by participating in the Marine Corps Marathon in the nation’s capital! 

Handcycle start

With a course fit for both runners and handcyclists, the wounded Team boasts a dozen + marathoners each year.  Over ten dozen community members of Team Hope For The Warriors® also cruised through the capital on October 30, 2011 in support of combat wounded service members and their families.   Runners enjoy beautiful October temperatures and endless spectator encouragement – by those in uniform as well ;) The course takes runners by the DC must see’s, starting by the Pentagon, through Georgetown, by the capital, the National Mall, Lincoln Memorial, WWII Memorial…the list is endless.  

Conquer the streets of our capital with Team Hope For The Warriors® on October 28, 2012!

Registration: $135

Fundraising Minimum: $575

MCM Registration

Please contact Jenlene for more MCM registration information!