Getting sober is hard. Staying sober is harder. As many as 6 in 10 people relapse in the first year after addiction treatment. They leave with the will and the knowledge to stay sober, but their brains and bodies are still healing. 

We put a coach in addiction treatment programs week after week, training together with participants toward a race — and we stay with them through runs like this one, while they are in treatment and after they leave.

The stakes are real. Without a team, too many people return to the same places, the same people, and the same cycle — and families who finally had hope lose it again. 

That’s what your gift changes: it’s the difference between facing that first year alone and facing it with a team that expects you at the next run. Because when someone in recovery has people running beside them, they grow stronger. They stay connected. Some come back to coach the next group.  Some go on to run half and full marathons.

That is the community we’re building — one stride at a time. Be part of supporting sobriety, one stride at a time.