Starting June 1, 2022, my wife Dawn Pooler and I will be running, biking or swimming 2.6 miles or exercising for 26-minutes for the next 26 days as part of our R4C 26-Day Challenge to support the Race4Chase Kid Triathlon Program.

We are part of a team of 26+ volunteers at each of our YMCA branches that have joined our cause memory of each of Chase’s classmates and teachers who were taken from us way too early on December 14, 2012.

Each day starting June 1, a new volunteer will join the cause and run, swim, bike or exercise continuously until June 26. Each volunteer is helping to support our overall goal of $30k so we can offer a FREE kids triathlon program to 70+ children this summer. These children will train for 6-weeks and compete in a triathlon on August 6 at YMCA Camp Sloper. Those 70+ children will show the same sort of perseverance and determination that Chase had when he competed and won his first triathlon in the fall of 2012.

Dawn and I have committed to raising $1000 to help both branches of our YMCA, Southington and Cheshire, and appreciate your support!

Thanks for your consideration and please think of Dawn, myself and the other amazing 26+ other volunteers in Southington and Cheshire over the next 26 days. We begin this journey on June 1st in memory of Chase Kowalski and the 25 others who we will always remember!