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Tutus for a Cause: Code MACKID saves $5 off the 6/11 Tutu Trot

Join Team Macaroni Kid at Infinite Love for Kids Fighting Cancer's 8th annual Tutu Trot

By Stacey Jones May 10, 2023

Middletown 5K Run/Walk in Tutus Fights Pediatric Brain Tumors! 

Use code "MACKID" for $5 off Registration + Join Team Macaroni Kid at Infinite Love for Kids Fighting Cancer's 8th annual Tutu Trot

Gather your friends and family in support of a great cause and join Team Macaroni Kid at Infinite Love for Kids Fighting Cancer's 8th annual 5K run/walk Tutu Trot! 

Simply use the coupon code "MACKID" at this link for $5 off the registration fee.

On Sunday June 11, runners across the country can turn their footsteps into dollars for pediatric brain tumor research. And they can wear a tutu while they do it. This year's 8th annual run/walk is being in person at High School South in Middletown, NJ, and simultaneously at Trumbull High School in Trumbull, CT (as well as virtually, nationwide) to benefit the Children's Brain Tumor Network run out of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Sign up online by May 12th for the free t-shirts to be guaranteed or just sign up to participate anytime up until Race Day on June 11. In addition to the 5K Run/Walk that is open to all ages, the event also includes a series of short Kids’ Fun Runs to be held on the track after the 5K is complete. Weather permitting, even more festivities will await your family at this exciting event: Doodle Dude from the Middletown Art Center will have a crafting/art tent on site, Fabulous Faces Entertainment will offer face painting and glitter tattoos, and exciting guest appearances will be made by friends like Spiderman and Belle thanks to My Fairytale Dream. The event will wrap up with a live butterfly release to honor all of our childhood cancer fighters, survivors, and angels. 

    

 The 8th annual Infinite Love for Kids Fighting Cancer "Tutu Trot" 5K Run/Walk has a goal of raising $100,000 for the Children's Brain Tumor Network, a global research effort based at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. They are looking to repeat the amount they raised in 2022, thanks to the efforts and generosity of hundreds of participants, donors, and sponsoring companies.


The story of the Tutu Trot is one of people coming together. Two parents of cancer fighters, strangers to each other, started separate 5K races in their hometowns to raise awareness and money for the childhood cancer cause. Jim McCaffrey held the first Tutu Trot in Trumbull CT while his daughter Mia, a kindergartener, was battling rhabdomyosarcoma. Sue Funck began the Hustle4Hannah 5K in Tinton Falls, NJ to honor the memory of her 14-year-old daughter Hannah after her fight with brain cancer. 

Through the connected network of childhood cancer families, they each met Andrea Verdone Gorsegner, founder of the nonprofit foundation Infinite Love for Kids Fighting Cancer. The three combined efforts to create the Infinite Love Tutu Trot as a way to honor Mia and Hannah by raising funds for the Children’s Brain Tumor Network, a research consortium based at CHOP.

To sign up for the Tutu Trot, or to donate toward the $100,000 fundraising goal, please visit this link and save $5 off with code "MACKID" on each 5k registrant for the Middletown in-person race .