"Bugaboo" For time:
200 Thrusters (75/45)
Please join us as we do this special WOD on August 13, 2011 in memoriam of Benjamin "Bugaboo" Abruzzo III to raise awareness and donations for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). "Bugaboo" lived for just 200 days before he lost his battle with SMA on December 29th, 2005.
So many other children and families are affected yet knowledge and awareness is very low.
Please read the words in the post below from "Bugaboo"s father who has lost 2 children to this terrible disease. Also take a look at previous posts below from our efforts with this cause last year and the list of CrossFit affiliates who helped out last year. We hope to grow this event each year with your help.
I believe everything happens for a reason and I believe that the CrossFit community has the power to spread the word and raise some donations to fight SMA.
The first step in fighting for any cause is raising awareness by spreading the word. This year we are asking that each participating affiliate raise $200, one dollar for each day that "Bugaboo" was alive. All donations made online will come with a receipt and will be tax deductible. If you are interested, please find a participating affiliate near you, or find an affiliate near you and ask them to participate!
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FSMA DONATION/REGISTRATION SITE PLEASE!
If you can't make it to a participating CrossFit affiliate, all we ask of you, is wherever you are on or around August 13th, do this WOD and PLEASE COME BACK TO THIS SITE AND POST YOUR TIME, LOADS AND THOUGHTS TO COMMENTS so we can see who all we reached, then go to the donation site and give what you can. Tell everyone you can why you are doing "Bugaboo" and send the link to this site to everyone you can.
3-2-1-GO!
Here is a list of CrossFit affiliates planning to participate in this worthy cause, please join them if you can (standard membership/drop-in fees, etc as applicable at your affiliate). Please contact me at shane@crossfitalbuquerque.com with your website address if your affiliate would like to participate and would like to be added to the list:
Bayou City CrossFit, Houston, TX
Black Box Fitness, Albuquerque, NM
Crossfit 3D, Trafford Park, Manchester, UK
CrossFit Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM
CrossFit Crave, Celina, OH
CrossFit Rio Rancho, Rio Rancho, NM
CrossFit TNT, Saint Charles, MO
CrossFit Wilco, Austin, TX
Project Fitness CrossFit, Garden City, KS
Tallahassee CrossFit, Tallahassee, FL
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Benjamin Abruzzo III
Addisyn Grace Abruzzo
CrossFitters Unite for One Day, One WOD, One Purpose
FSMA "BUGABOO" DONATION/AFFILIATE REGISTRATION SITE
"Bugaboo"
Benjamin Abruzzo III
"Addi-Pie"
Addisyn Grace Abruzzo
SMA FACTS:
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the number one genetic killer of children under the age of two, is an often fatal disease that destroys the nerves controlling voluntary muscle movement, which affects crawling, walking, head and neck control, and even swallowing.
There is no current treatment for this often fatal disease.
WHO IS AFFECTED:
-SMA is one of the most prevalent genetic disorders.
-One in every 6,000 babies is born with SMA.
-SMA can strike anyone of any age, race or gender.
-One in every 40 people carries the gene that causes SMA.
-The child of two carriers has a one in four chance of developing SMA.
-7.5 million Americans are carriers.
There is no current treatment for this often fatal disease.
WHO IS AFFECTED:
-SMA is one of the most prevalent genetic disorders.
-One in every 6,000 babies is born with SMA.
-SMA can strike anyone of any age, race or gender.
-One in every 40 people carries the gene that causes SMA.
-The child of two carriers has a one in four chance of developing SMA.
-7.5 million Americans are carriers.
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