Strides for Life 2011 Pre-Race Information

Strides for Life 2011 Walk/Run

Taking the fight against Colon Cancer to the Streets

GET YOUR REAR IN GEAR

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011
Registration: 7:30 a.m. at "The Circle" (Sunset Blvd. & Lake Merced Blvd.)

Lake Merced, San Francisco

4-Mile Run/Walk at "The Circle": 9 a.m.

Post-race pancake breakfast and other fun activities.


Questions? Call 650-348-5800

Some parking is available in the parking lot and in the surrounding streets. Course Map here. Google links for directions to Lake Merced here.

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Dylan Cappel. Image from here

Athletes and Parents,

On October 23rd, Stanford Rowing Center will once again send a contingent of athletes to run in the Stridesfor Life Colon Cancer 4 mile run and give back to the community. The Strides for Life Colon Cancer Foundation is the outcome of the death of Dylan Cappel. Dylan died of colon cancer at the age of 23 while training for a berth on the 2004 United States Olympic Rowing Team. Dylan graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000 and at the time of his death was the assistant men’s varsity rowing coach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The organization is dedicated to his memory and committed to decreasing the amount of pain and suffering this hideous disease wreaks on society.

I had the pleasure of coaching all the Cappel children: Marissa, Jena Rose and Dylan, when they were in high school. Stanford University and Stanford Rowing Center sat down with the Cappels in the spring of 2003 and the concept of the Strides for Life Foundation was founded. That first year we had 187 walkers that descended upon Redwood Shores. The starting line was the Hotel Sofitel and the finish line was the Stanford Boathouse. Last year we had over 880 walkers/runners at Lake Merced in SF and this year we
are looking to break 1500 participants.

Dylan was a track start at St Dunstans in Millbrae and went to Serra HS and fell in love with rowing. He trained hard and went off to row at the Univ of Wisconsin. His sophomore year, he made the Varsity boat. Dylan is all of us. Peninsula kid, working hard, dreams of college, maybe of even competing at D1 school and making varsity. Dylan's dreams were cut short as he trained for 2004 but this foundation wants to make sure that no other person's dreams are taken away. Colonoscopies and follow-up care are given free of charge to people with no health care. Fathers, sons, mothers have all taken advantage of the opportunities that SFL has given them. For every dollar SFL raises, they turn it into 3-4 dollars of health care dollars by negotiating reduced rates of screenings and follow-up care.

Please follow the link here and sign up individually for the race. I have formed a team called STANFORD ROWING CENTER. Please search for the team on the link and register yourself, your family, aw heck, your whole neighborhood. The run has a breakfast, reggae band, great goodie bag including a running shirt and shopping bag, and local politicians in attendance including Fiona Ma.

There is no rowing practice on October 23rd, just this run. Dylan's birthday is October 17th, and he would have been 33 this year. The City of SF has declared the month of October, Dylan Cappel month. Let's go celebrate Dylan's birthday !

Thank you !
Monica, Joe, AD and Daniela