Old Fort Strong Endurance Festival

Sandy and I will be volunteering Friday, December 6 to help setup for a unique endurance event at Camp Grier in Old Fort, NC. The event will take place over the weekend and bring together the running and bike communities with a common goal of raising money for the Old Fort Strong Fund.

My mom lives close by, so Sandy and I consider Old Fort our home away from home. We have pedaled many miles here and on Saturday, December 7, I will set off with the intent to add to those miles while pedaling my bike in the woods for 12 hours.

My ask is to help in this effort to raise money for the Old Fort Strong Fund. This fund is dedicated to helping support community members in Old Fort who have lost their homes or had significant damage to their homes and will not receive any help to pay for rebuilding from insurance.  Due to the massive flooding that took place outside of historic flood zones, many homes did not have flood insurance to cover this cost.  In total 50+ homes were lost in McDowell County alone.  The goal is to raise $2,000,000 from this event alone to help in this cause.  All donations will go directly to helping those in need in our community.

This means a lot.