Share your memories from past Komen Races for the Cure
Saturday is the Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure. Are you ready?
If you’ve participated in past Komen races and just happened to have snapped some snazzy photos, we’d like to include them in our online Race For The Cure Album. Also, if you’re running the race this weekend, why? Are you doing it for a friend who’s battling breast cancer? In honor of a relative who died? To join your co-workers? Also, do you have any good anecdotes from years past or tips on running, rather than walking, the race? Let’s hear about it below, in our comments section.
So far, things look good where the weather is concerned. Forecasts call for the high to be about 75 degrees with storms holding off until later in the day. Organizers are once again expecting more than 65,000 participants which means you should get there early to find parking and get positioned, especially if you plan to run, rather than walk, the 3.1 miles.
Here’s a link to Komen’s schedule of festivities which start at 6:30 a.m. as well as parking logistics. There are about 6,000 parking meters downtown and they’re free on Saturdays. The City of St. Louis has also donated free spots at several garages and a parking lot. Click on the schedule link above, scroll down to parking and clink on the first link under that.
Also, make sure you look for an upcoming story about where your race fees go in our STL Health Section on Thursday. Good luck, everyone!
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Cindy Billhartz Gregorian is a features reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She has reported for the Healthy & Fit section since its first issue. She's a distance runner with seven marathons under her belt. 
I’ll tell you why I’m not part of the event: it’s a waste of time and money, and shuts downtown down for other events and businesses.
How about we all give the cash, and not do the event? Eh? Then even more of the money will go toward the intended goal and not paying for this stupid walk. And I can get to work on time. And other people can come enjoy downtown without all the suburbanites that come for 3 things (this walk, baseball, hockey) shutting down the city.
Wow I strong words Jude, I found your response sick and disturbing. The walk brings survivors togther for support. Thinking that the walk is a waste of time and money is a cold hearted act of cruelty.
I wish I could do the event again this year but I have another commitment. When I took part a few years ago, I was deeply inspired by seeing survivors among their families; families walking or running in honor of someone they’d lost; bald women obviously going through treatment; children and husbands and aunts and uncles. If this is how people want to support a worthy cause, more power to them. Jude, I hope no one you love ever gets breast cancer because you could regret your ill-tempered tone.
What is wrong with you Jude? How can you say that it’s a waste of time and money? Until you know someone who is diagnosed with breast cancer, you can’t. Here’s an idea - leave for work a little earlier and quit complaining. YOU give STL a bad rap, not the suburbanites.
Sorry, I agree with Jude. The walk itself is a waste of money. Raising the money to find a cure is good deed, but why the heck do you actually need to walk? Could give a lot more money to search for a cure if you didn’t walk. Seems pointless to me. Not to mention this foundation is one of the worst for money actually going to search for a cure. They spend way to much on advertising and walks.
My grandmother, mother, aunt, and sister have all been treated and are now breast cancer free. They attend support groups both for themselves and to help others. What they don’t do is shut down a city they don’t live in once a year to feel good about themselves.
Support other survivors and patients, that is an amazingly important thing to do, but be responsible about it please.
Bob do you really know how much money is spent on advertising or are you just making assumptions? The walk gets more people involved in breast cancer every year and if there wasn’t a walk, people wouldn’t donate. I think Bob and Jude should stand up during this walk and voice their opinion to see how much support they will get on stopping the walks for breast cancer.
I hate that on the Friday of Memorial and Labor Day weekends I have to sit in 2 hours of traffic from Lake St. Louis to Warrenton just to get home, but I’m not in support of shutting down the lakes that most of those people are going to.
If you don’t choose to participate, that’s fine. While this may not be the most lucrative event for finding a cure, it does bring 10’s of thousands of people together. It’s quite similar to sporting events in the traffic chaos it causes. Just plan better or don’t work on those days.
My wife and I are participating in our 3rd race. We walk in memory of her grandmother.
Well I think strength comes in numbers…and last year when I attended the walk I was so overwhelmed with the amount of people that showed up. There are so many things in life that have been overlooked and that people dont support, so why not appreciate the fact that people are coming?!? And for the survivors its a time where they can be recognized when in everyday life they are not. So I am happy to go and see the survivors and the support from families of people that did not win the battle. So good luck on Saturday to everyone that will be attending. God Bless all those who are battling cancer today….
Just getting money does not solve a problem. If it did the public schools in St. Louis would be among the top in the country.
The point of the race is to raise awareness of breast cancer AND to raise money. If the people who were saying it’s a waste of time and money had ever known anyone who’s gone through it or lost a loved one to breast cancer, I don’t think they’d feel the way they do. As it is, they just ocme off like cranky old blowhards.