Help Amy-Clare to raise money and support CRY!

Amy-Clare Thomas is raising money for Cardiac Risk in the Young

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Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

Myself, Robert and Tomo are joining together to run the Reading Half Marathon to raise money and support for CRY.

We are running to raise money in memory of our friend who tragically lost his life during a training session with Reading Swimming Club in 2003 aged just 17. Joe Korting was an amazing person, always smiling and who embraced life to the full. Everybody really enjoyed training with Joe and being in a team together. He was always one of the best swimmers.............a fact that shows how important the work that CRY carry out is.

CRY was founded in 1995 to raise awareness of conditions that can lead to Young Sudden Cardiac Death (YDCD) and Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS). These conditions can happen to any young person at and at any time, even if like Joe the young person is at the prime of their physical fitness. To help reduce the numbers of children and young adults that are affected by these conditions CRY run ECG Screening Clinics for those aged between 14 and 35 years old, this can help identify and prevent risks before they become life threatening. Please visit the following link to a video featuring David Walliams that gives more information on the screening program: http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/ecg.htm

The run is on Sunday 1st April so there is a couple of months to get into shape and run our little legs off!

Achieving a good time will be a challenge and one we shall be embracing fully on the day both for ourselves and Joe as he would have done. Please dig deep and help us raise us much money as possible for what really is an amazing Charity. Every little will help however big or small.