Daniel’s Race
August 12, 2023 @ 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
This 5K race is in remembrance of Daniel Myslivecek, who lost his battle with Melanoma at the age of 16. A friend of Daniel’s organized the first 5K in 2005 to help the family with medical costs. Daniel ran in that first race and died 4 months later from his illness. The 5K has continued with the support of our community and each year the proceeds are given to a family or organization that helps children with a life-threatening illness while heightening Melanoma awareness.
THE RACE WILL START DESPITE WEATHER AT 9:30am
Pre-Registration Participants
Signing up for a FREE T-shirt ends on Friday, July 22nd.
You can pre-register until August 5th, to be able to pick up your bib the day before the race. If you have signed up before 7/22 you can pick up your bib and Free Shirt.
All pre-registration can be picked up at Rochester Running Company located at 1387 Mount Hope Ave, Rochester, NY 14620. ONLY on Friday August 12th and ONLY during business hours.
Pre-registration will be open from August 5th to August 12th only for participats to be able to skip the registration line on race day and go to directly getting their bibs.
Registration opens race day at 8:30am, regardless of weather the race will start at 9:30am. If registrants decide not to run their proceeds will be donated to this years race recipient.
Part of the 2022 Race proceeds will be going to the Sisson Family. George and Samantha (2018 RWC Graduate) Sisson and their son Georgie and their little girl Lizzy. Lizzy was born in January and diagnosed with Pierre Robins syndrome. After some uneasy nights of Lizzy not being able to breathe laying on her back, and feeding complications, as she wasn’t gaining weight and would throw up, the family sought specialists at Oishei Hospital in Buffalo. Lizzy underwent a very intense and intrusive surgery to reconstruct her lower jaw in order to help her feed and breath better. And Samantha was given special instructions and tools to be able to feed her. Even with the successful surgery at such a young age she and her family still have complications and hardships ahead. Lizzy has a lot of follow up appointments in Buffalo 75 miles away from their home, and another surgery later to fix her cleft palate.
Please consider registering for the race and donating to the Sisson family!
There are no refunds, all proceeds will be donated to help support a specific family in need, the Golisano Children’s Hospital Financial Fund, and the CCHS Daniel Myslivecek Scholarship.
Thank you for your support!
