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Article #749Achilles Track Club
From: Jack Berkery
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:00
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I recently joined the Achilles Track Club and wanted to locate any other members in the Capital District. Are there any out there? Jack Berkery, Computer Scientist, GE Research, Niskayuna NY berkery@crd.ge.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Achilles Track Club is a worldwide organization designed to encourage people with all kinds of disabilities to participate in running with the general public, mainstreaming. Achilles encourages people to run for pure enjoyment regardless of time, speed or ability. Founded in 1983 in New York City, Achilles TC has expanded to 40 chapters in the US and 110 chapters in 36 countries. The club promotes the idea that running should be enjoyable regardless of disabilities. Achilles includes people with all disabilities, such as: visual impairment, stroke, cerebral palsy, paraplegia, arthritis, epilepsy, amputation, multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis, cancer, and many others. Our runners are on crutches, wheelchairs, with braces, wearing protheses and without aids at all. Some are experienced athletes and others are exercising for the first time. Membership in Achilles is free. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Achilles Track Club, One Times Square, 10th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 tele (212)354-0300, fax (212)354-3978 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110b47,bd29dfd2f23d78bd,start X-Google-Attributes: gid110b47,public From: berkery@emmax5.crd.ge.com (Jack Berkery) Subject: Achilles Track Club Date: 1996/02/28 Message-ID: <4h22dh$44q@rdsunx.crd.ge.com> X-Deja-AN: 141514100 distribution: world sender: berkery@emmax5 (Jack Berkery) organization: GE Research reply-to: berkery@emmax5.crd.ge.com (Jack Berkery) newsgroups: capdist.misc