Team VDF

Team VDF is a team of dedicated men and women from all over the United States and Canada who committed themselves to running in the 2007 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon. They also were committed to fundraising to increase awareness of vascular disease among the 1.5 million runners and spectators who attended the event on Sunday, October 7, in Chicago.

If you heard any of the news reports about the marathon, you will remember that the temperature was so unseasonably warm that it broke a record for being the hottest day in the city's history for that date. With the thermometer soaring to an uncomfortable 88 degrees under a bright sun, these runners determinedly stepped up to the 26.2 mile challenge.

At approximately noon, marathon officials cancelled the race and told all runners who had not reached the half-way mark by this point to turn around. Most of our runners had already passed that mark and so they braved the heat to continue on. But some of our amazing runners had not yet reached this mark and were forced to turn back.

On that unseasonably hot day in Chicago last fall, all of those courageous runners had dedicated themselves not only to completing the marathon, but also to helping to reduce death and disability from vascular disease. Thus far Team VDF has raised over $11,200! Won't you please support them today? We are still accepting donations online at www.active.com/donate/vasculardisease. All donations are tax-deductible and support VDF's mission.

Team VDF consists of dedicated men and women from all over the US and Canada who committed themselves to running in the 2007 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon and increasing awareness of vascular disease among the 1.5 million runners and spectators who attended the event. So far Team VDF has raised over $11,200 to benefit vascular disease awareness!

We would also like to thank our generous sponsors for supporting Team VDF: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Cordis Endovascular, CV Therapeutics, DIOMED, Red Robin, sanofi-aventis, W.L. Gore and Associates.