The DC Wheels Skate-A-Thon 2024

Event Schedule: Saturday, August 31st, 2024 (rain date: Sunday, September 1st, 2024

11AM SAFETY: Bethesda Boards Skate Shop -7900 Woodmont Ave, Bethesda MD 20814

12PM START: Bethesda Boards Skate Shop

1PM Check Point 1: GeorgetownWaterfront 

1:30PM Check Point 2: Lincoln Memorial

2:30PM Check Point 3: Gravelly Point

3-4PM Check Point 4 LUNCH: Alexandria Sweetgreen - 823 King Street Alexandria, VA 22314

5:30PM Check Point 5: Mt Vernon - George Washington's House 

7PM Check Point 6: Old Town Torpedo Factory

8PM Check Point 7: Gravelly Point 

9PM FINISH: Theodore Roosevelt Island

10PM CELEBRATION: Breadsoda 2233 Wisconsin ave Washington, DC 20007

NO registration fee. 100% of donations (excluding runsignup service fees) go in support of The Tim Achille Family Fund. On September 7th, 2024 all funds will be transferred to their GoFundMe. 

Rain Date: Sunday, September 1st, 2024

For current weather conditions please visit: The Weather Channel

FOR EXPERIENCED SKATERS ONLY. Soft hybrid wheel(s) advised. Stay in your lane (right). Proceed with caution when transferring over highways. Go at your own pace, this is NOT a race. Advised phone flashlight for evening ride. Skate at your own risk. 

In the case of emergency please call 911.

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"It is with great honor and way overdue to announce this year's Skate-A-Thon 2024 with The DC Wheels and Friends happening on Saturday August 31st, 2024 at 11am here in the Nation's Capitol.
We would like to honor the family of LEGEND Tim Achille., from Morristown New Jersey. Who grew up skating Philadelphia's Love Park. 
It is so important that we all come together to support his wife Celina and  daughter Waylon.
Please give what you can in this trying time. Let's help relieve some of the financial  burden that a loss like this brings to a family. 

Achille (pronounced A-sheel) was and will always be an incredible skateboarder. From his hometown of Morristown, New Jersey to skating Love Park since he was a  young kid.  
Appearing in New Deal Skateboards world wide video, "7 year glitch". He also appeared in Philadelphia's skate video "Abstract" and was a guest on the talk show "Droppin' in".

Born on August 6th, 1979. He started skateboarding in 1992 in 7th grade. He found out about a skate birthday party and went boardless. Unbeknownst to him it would set him on his magic carpet ride from that moment on.
He mowed lawns and saved up money to by a Shut skateboards blank board from a neighborhood kid. It had riser pads and trucks with different hangers on it. 
He would later on grow to what you have heard or seen in videos around the World.
With his amazing kickflip backside tailslides and nollie frontside 180 heelflip tailslides you knew who he was real fast.

Later on in life, Tim was a testicular cancer survivor and had a child with his Wife, Celina, despite the fact of doctors saying it was a 90% chance he would be sterile after the chemotherapy. 
Their daughter's name is Waylon. She is 2 years old.

We are now ready to skate 47 miles, that's ten hours of pushing in one day, for this cause.
Please join us for fundraising and skating for this family,

Thanks and RIDE ON!

-The DC Wheels and Achille family"  

• 2024 for Tim Achille Family Fund
• 2023 for Metachromatic Leukodystrophy 
• 2022 for Alzheimer’s Insight Memory Care 
• 2021 for Dementia Society of America 
• 2020 for Lupus Foundation of America 
• 2019 for National Breast Center 
• 2018 for Suicide Awareness 
• 2017 for Leukemia 
• 2016 for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation 
• 2015 for Parkinson’s Disease
• 2013 for Ovarian Cancer 
• 2011 for Pulmonary Fibrosis 
• 2007 for Multiple Sclerosis