Reception at Irish Embassy in Luxembourg in Feb 2024 (L-R): Liz O'Malley, Irish Embassy; Jane Murray, Run in the Dark Luxembourg; Susan Gorman, volunteer Run in the Dark Luxembourg; Ambassador McDonald;
Credit: Jazmin Campbell / Chronicle.lu
The Run in the Dark 2024 event is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 13 November 2024, with 25,000 people worldwide expected to particiapte in this year's edition which aims to help cure paralysis in our lifetime by supporting the Mark Pollock Trust.
Luxembourg is joining London, Belfast, Dublin, Cork and Limerick as a Flagship Run in the Dark in 2024; Another 50 cities worldwide will host Run in the Dark events.
This global movement will light up the night, as participants run 5k or 10k. Flagship events are large-scale events, with Pop-up events organised at a smaller scale.
Together, they will run for those who dream to walk by fundraising for Collaborative Cures whose mission is to bring people together to cure paralysis in our lifetime.
Registration costs €37/person and is now open for the Luxembourg event which will start at 20:00 in the Rives de Clausen; see https://www.runinthedark.org/event/luxembourg/. Around 2,500 people are expected for the Luxembourg event in 2024.
The early bird deal includes a free running tec top that comes to an end at 17:00 on 12 September; participants can still sign up after 12 September right through to November.
About Mark Pollock
Unbroken by blindness in 1998, Mark Pollock became an adventure athlete, becoming the first blind person to race to the South Pole. In 2010 a fall from a second-story window nearly killed Mark. He broke his back, and the damage to his spinal cord left him paralysed.
Speaking to Chronicle.lu about his mission to cure paralysis in our lifetime, Mark Pollock said: “Run in the Dark was created to support me in those early days after my accident, and since then, with the help of so many people like you, we have been involved in projects to take spinal research out of the lab and get it to the clinic that are now valued at over $100 million.”
Now, through Collaborative Cures, Mark is focusing on how to connect scientists and technologists with the appropriate business know-how, capital and regulatory expertise to find a cure for paralysis.
Mark continued: “Millions of paralysed people worldwide don’t have the option to walk or to run or even to stand up but you can help change that as you join 25,000 people worldwide at Run in the Dark this November. All fundraising will support our charity partner Collaborative Cures to bring people together to cure paralysis in our lifetime.”
