I participate in CCFA's Team Challenge, a half marathon training program that raises vital funds for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis research and support.

You can learn more about Team Challenge, make a donation, or sign up to run with your local team at ccteamchallenge.org.

Schedule of Upcoming Events

• July 21, 2013 — Napa to Sonoma Half Marathon!

Additional events in support of my July 2013 run are still being scheduled. Please check back later!

Team Challenge Articles

The following articles provide additional information about Crohn's disease and my efforts with Team Challenge:

• CCFA Co-founder Suzanne Rosenthal Dies Suzanne Rosenthal, one of the co-founders of the National Foundation for Ileitis and Colitis (the organization later renamed the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America), died on Sunday afternoon. She was 76-years old. Rosenthal was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 1955, a time when very little was known about the disease and patients often found ...
• Delayed, not deterred This December’s Las Vegas Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon would have been my 8th race with Team Challenge. Yes, “would have been.” I’ve just made the extremely difficult decision to not run 13.1 miles in Vegas on December 2, 2012.1 Not an ideal way to start a “Year of Living Awesomely,” I realize. Ironically, a few hours ...
• Book Excerpt: “Wine, Guts and Glory” Here is a short excerpt from my novel “Wine, Guts and Glory (A Team Challenge Mystery).” As previously posted, any donation of $15 or more to my Team Challenge fundraising effort will get you a copy of the novel when it’s released in July. Click here to donate. Excerpt from “Wine, Guts and Glory”: The temperature was hovering ...
• Donate to Team Challenge, Get a Collectors’ Edition Book This July I’m again running the Napa to Sonoma Half Marathon with Team Challenge.1 To give back to all of my incredible supporters, I’m doing something a little different for my fundraising effort. I’ve written a novel — “Wine, Guts and Meds (Running Away with Team Challenge)” — and everyone who donates $15 or more ...
• CCFA Patient and Family Education Conference Yesterday1 I attended CCFA Illinois’ 17th Annual Patient and Family Education Conference. This year’s conference featured a number of great speakers from the U.S. and Canada, and focused on many of the current hot topics in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). This article contains links to the speaker presentations, as well as my tweets related to ...