3rd Annual Gunn’s Fitness Buree-A-Thon in Fort Mill, SC
June 11, 2023 - We are grateful for the group of people that the Lord put together for an amazing night of Burpees and fun! This video says it all, as our athletes celebrate hitting their fundraising target after almost a full 90 minutes of Burpees!! Thank you to all the athletes who took part, to all who helped with food, music and logistics, all who came to cheer on the athletes, all who donated auction items, and all who donated to help us raise $31,833 that will go to our Triple Target Funding program that benefits ALS-TDI, Duke ALS Clinic, and our 2 patient assistance programs.
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Gunn's Fitness (Gunns Fitness), – A special thanks to Regina who started this program during COVID. Her vision has grown and the results speak for themselves! As well, a big thank you to Regina’s husband Kevin and their two awesome kids who work so hard to support this effort and the Racing for ALS #endals mission!
S3 CrossFit (S3 CrossFit | Fort Mill, SC)– Thank you to Becky and Sean of S3 Crossfit for hosting us in your amazing facility, for taking part in the event, and to Becky for helping us really swell our field from 5 teams last year to 20+ this year!!
Food – A huge thanks to Executive Chef Benny Arce and his wife Allison for another great year of food that brought in a lot of money and filled a lot of bellies; it is awesome to have you all as friends and part of this effort! This year’s food was provided by Jon G's Barbecue (Jon G's Barbecue), thank you all again for partnering with us! As well, this year we were also happy to welcome Ksenya (www.kflourshop.com) who provided some really well decorated and scrumptious cookies!
Carolina Cruzin4Jeeps (Community | Carolina Cruzin4jeeps) – Thanks for helping promote the event and to Jennifer for helping serve and to Allen for DJing to help keep up the energy of the crowd and the athletes!
Auction Partners – Thanks to Debbie Micale for your efforts to put together the auction once again. As well, thank you to every person/business who gave auction items to the cause. Your generosity helped generate a lot of donations, and created a lot of excitement! Regina of Gunn’s Fitness will be doing some additional posts to thank you all as well as there were so many items, which was amazing!
Again, thank you to everyone for an amazing event that put’s Racing for ALS just shy of $40,000 from $1,000,000 raised and distributed to help in the #EndALS mission!
