Lou Gehrig Disease Cure Behind Tri-State Trek

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CONNECTICUT (GaeaTimes.com)- There is no doubt about the fact that the Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease that is also known popularly as Lou Gehrig disease is one of the most painful and deadly disease. However, there are very few people who know about the disease or bear a clear idea about the early symptoms of Lou Gehrig disease. It is for this reason that the Tri-State Trek, a bicycle ride that goes from Boston to Connecticut finishing at Greenwich has chosen to raise awareness over the Lou Gehrig disease this year.

As per reports, around 200 cyclists that include a team of police officers will be converging on Greenwich today to mark the end of the three day bicycle trek at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park. The money raised by the Tri-State Trek will go to the Boston-based nonprofit research center ALS Therapy Development Institute that works to find cure for Lou Gehrig disease.

The cycling fundraiser had started on Friday in Massachusetts and passed through Connecticut during the past two days. This is for the first time that the race will come to an end at Greenwich. However, in the past the trek had passed through Greenwich. The organizer of the event Mat Mendel has mentioned to media sources that this year the trek will finish at Greenwich to show its support for the Greenwich Police Sgt. Roger Petrone who suffers from the fatal Lou Gehrig disease but still continues to mobilize the effort to find a cure to the disease. When asked about the event, Roger Petrone said to media sources that he wants the people of Greenwich to feel it like their own event.