Introducing the Epilepsy Association's Virtual Runner

Start Date August 1, 2009

End Date November 8, 2009

It's time to make your miles count...EVEN MORE

Are you racing this fall?
Register now for the Virtual Runner Program
and run in any race on the planet earth! 

T-Shirts will be given to every runner who raises $100 or more.  The t-shirts are technical grade, running tees sporting the Virtual Runner Logo.  Wear your shirt to races and let everyone know you're making your miles count for the Epilepsy Association.

CONGRATULATION DEBBIE FOR YOUR THIRD PLACE FINISH AT THE 2009 US National Championship 24 Hour Run HELD ON OCT. 3, 2009 AT EDGEWATER PARK -Cleveland. 

Debbie Accomplished her racing goal of 200 miles by racing 217.4 miles in 13 weeks.  Please visit Debbie's Virtual Runner  website for more information - Follow the link provided below.

Honorary Chairperson & Ultra-Marathoner
Debra Horn with Lucy

"I'm proud to be able to provide support

and encouragement to all our Virtual Runners."   ~Debbie  

Join Debra Horn, US National 24-Hour Team member and premier ultra-runner, in using race miles to increase epilepsy awareness and outreach.  Lucy, the daughter of her friend and running partner, was diagnosed with epilepsy when she was two-years-old.  Lucy and her family struggled for over a year, with Lucy averaging 70 seizures in a single day. Today, through a combination of medication and diet, Lucy has been seizure-free for the last year.   By witnessing Lucy’s experience, Debbie was inspired to use running as a way to help the Epilepsy Association increase its services to individuals with epilepsy and their families. 

As the Virtual Runner’s honorary chairperson, Debbie will race 200 miles on behalf of the Epilepsy Association starting August 1st through November 8th.  Debbie is a seasoned marathoner and a nationally recognized athlete. Debbie has been named to the US National 24-Hour Team for three straight years and competed in May 2009 at the World 24-Hour Championships in Bergamo, Italy.  In Italy, Debbie covered 128.8 miles in 24 hours helping the US women’s team take the silver medal.

In June, Debbie competed in the FANS 12-Hour Race in Minnesota, running over 70 miles and taking second place overall and first place female. This October, Debbie will compete in the North Coast 24-Hour race in Cleveland, site of the US 24-Hour National Championships where every mile she covers will be run on behalf of the Virtual Runner. Debbie is not a professional runner. She’s an accomplished litigation attorney (a partner at Meyers, Roman in Cleveland).  She’s a professional leader (a past president and board member of both the Ohio Women’s Bar Association and the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations).  She is an avid curler (think ice not hair). She’s a practiced apiarist (beekeeper).  And now, like every Virtual Runner, she’s an advocate for epilepsy awareness and outreach.  

Win Prizes!

Virtual Runners have the opportunity to win unique prizes.  Prizes (4 in all) will be awarded to the top fundraisers, and the runners with the most miles logged in the under 18 age category and 18 and over category. 

Thank you Virtual Runner Corporate supporters

Photography by

Jennifer Lawrence