Grace's Race - Centennial, Colorado - Running

The Grace's Race is a Running race in Centennial, Colorado consisting of a Kids Run/Fun Run and 5K.

In December of 2010, Grace began to complain that her right foot was going numb a few times a day lasting for about a minute each time. This was accompanied by a weakness and eventual inability to lift her ankle in a normal walking stride. She went to Children's Hospital Colorado thinking she had pinched a nerve. Instead, doctors discovered that Grace had a malignant brain tumor in the motor cortex of her brain affecting her right foot.

Grace's treatment began with brain and spinal radiation in combination with carboplatinum chemotherapy each weekday for 30 days. Grace then endured two different chemotherapy treatments, weekly, over the next year. Thanks to Dr. Nick Foreman's research funded by The Morgan Adams Foundation, this treatment was successful and Grace is now a happy and healthy high schooler! She loves swimming freestyle and butterfly, rock climbing, horseback riding, and hanging out with her friends.

After defeating cancer, Grace decided that she wanted to do what she could to fund research to improve and save the lives of other kids, teenagers, and young adults battling cancer. Since the first event in 2013, Grace's Race has raised over $175,000!!