Good morning,

Below you will find an alert regarding the availability of members of the Families of Flight 93 Runners tomorrow at the Timex Media Center. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or for additional information.

 

Best,

Drea

 

 

MEDIA ALERT

 

Families of Flight 93 Runners’ Spokesperson Kiki Homer To Speak About 9/11Anniversary Commemoration with ING New York City Marathon

 

The Families of Flight 93 Runners, one of New York Road Runners’ 209 official charity partners, will run to raise awareness and funds for the Flight 93 National Memorial; Homer and fellow family member Kristen Glick will be available for interviews November 1 at the Timex Media Center

 

What:                                   Roundtable news conference with Families of Flight 93 Runners Spokeswoman Kiki Homer and runner Kristen Glick

 

Who:                                     Kiki Homer, charity spokesperson and sister of LeRoy Homer, co-pilot on Flight 93

                                                Kristen Schwartz Glick, sister-in-law of Jeremy Glick, passenger on Flight 93

 

When:                                  Tuesday, November 1

                                                11:00 a.m.

 

Where:                                Timex Media Center at the Marathon Pavilion (West Drive and 67th Street inside Central Park)

 

Media Contacts:            Drea Braxmeier, New York Road Runners, 646.673.2951

                                                    Anne Larimer Hart, MATTER-Edelman, 646.320.7864

 

 

New York Road Runners

Headquartered in New York City, New York Road Runners is dedicated to advancing the sport of running, enhancing health and fitness for all, and meeting our community’s needs. Our goal is to use the expertise acquired in our 53-year history to empower all people to live fitter, healthier lives through participation in our races, community events, instruction and training resources, and youth programs. Our races and other events draw more than 300,000 people each year. The ING New York City Marathon, NYRR’s premier event, is the largest and most inclusive marathon in the world, attracting the world’s top professional runners every year and raising $30.8 million for charity in 2010. NYRR’s running-based youth programs, which currently serve more than 100,000 children in hundreds of schools and community centers, promote children’s health and fitness, character development, and personal achievement in underserved communities. For more information, visit www.nyrr.org.

 

 

 

The ING New York City Marathon

The premier event of New York Road Runners, the ING New York City Marathon is one of the world’s great road races, drawing some 140,000 applicants. The race attracts many world-class professional athletes, not only for the $650,000 in prize money, but also for the chance to excel in the media capital of the world before two million cheering spectators and a worldwide broadcast reach of 330 million. As any one of the more than 875,000 past participants will attest, crossing the finish line in Central Park is one of the great thrills of a lifetime. For more information, visit www.ingnycmarathon.org.

 

Families of Flight 93 Runners

24 family members of the heroes who lost their lives on United Airlines Flight 93 will run the 2011 ING New York City Marathon to raise money for the memorial being built on the crash site in Shanksville, Pa, where Flight 93 hit the ground after the 40 passengers and crew fought terrorists to take control of the plane, thereby diverting it from its intended target, Washington, DC. The group will run as “Families of Flight 93 Runners,” an official charity partner of the marathon. For several members of the group, this year’s race will be a return to New York. In 2002, just 14 months after the September 11 attacks, a small group honored their loved ones by running the New York City Marathon wearing shirts emblazoned with “Flight 93 Family Runners: They Never Gave Up and Neither Will We.” For more information, please visit www.honorflight93.org. Families of Flight 93 Runners is one of the marathon’s 209 official charity partners. Two other charity partners this year honor 9/11 victims: Tuesday’s Children and the Nicholas Rossomando 9/11 Memorial Scholarship Fund. Last year, runners raised more than $30 million for official ING New York City Marathon charities.

 

 

 

Drea Braxmeier | NYRR Media | New York Road Runners | 212.423.2287 (work) | dbraxmeier@nyrr.org

 

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