Dog raises money for Maryland cancer center
Dozer is official now.
The goldendoodle who inadvertently ran last year’s Maryland Half Marathon, which benefits the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, now has his own race.
Dozer busted out of his yard and joined runners in the last eight miles of the race last May, without permission from his family. When race organizers discovered this, and made sure he was safely returned home, they awarded him a medal, and set up a fundraising page that has taken in more than $25,000.
(Organizers hoped to raise a total of $1 million for the cancer center by this, the fourth, year. They’re up to $750,000.)
This May 6, the organizers of the Howard County race have added Dozer’s Dash, an eight-mile race within a race. It will start at the five-mile mark and runners with the lowest times in this leg of the half marathon will be awarded medals of honor and named Top Dog of Dozer’s Dash.
Dogs won’t be allowed to run this year but the leased, escorted ones will be allowed to cheer.
