Kids & Family
Westwood Man Raises $4K Running Two Marathons in a Week
The money will support research of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
A Westwood man recently completed marathons on back-to-back Sundays and raised more than $4,000 for Duchenne muscular dystrophy research in the process.
Mark Brill ran in both the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C. October 27 and the New York City Marathon November 3 to support Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy of Hackensack.
Brill finished the NYC Marathon in 4:38:02 and the Marine Corps Marathon in 4:48:06, according to posted results from those races. The combined 52.4 miles was the most he has run in a single fundraising effort and the $4,285 was also the largest sum of money he has raised for the group at once.
He participated as part of Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy's Run For Our Sons Program, which has altogether generated more than $110,000 for research.
Duchenne is the most common fatal genetic disorder diagnosed in early childhood, according to Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy. The disorder causes a breakdown of muscles because of a cellular mutation, leading most who suffer from it to die by their late 20s. There is currently no known cure.
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