Michelle Burke Runs for the LAF

Last Update: October 24, 2008

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Michelle Burke
24 years old
Nanuet, NY

Michelle is a pediatric nurse at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York, and has been an active marathon runner for many years. This will be her first marathon without her running partner, her father, whom she lost this year to cancer. Besides her father, two of Michelle's childhood friends, Ellen and Erin, both had leukemia in elementary school.

"The Livestrong Foundation and Lance Armstrong were an incredible support to my father throughout his cancer treatment. It gave him hope that other people will never have go through what he suffered through ever again. Lance Armstrong was an inspiration to my father. Running the New York City Marathon has always been a dream of mine so being able to run it with the Lance Armstrong Foundation brings the importance to another level for me."

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