7th Annual Renegade Run Obstacle Course Race held October 14th

The 7th Annual Renegade Run Obstacle Course Race, hosted by Hingham-based organization Type One, will be held on Sunday, October 14th at Wompatuck State Park. Funds raised will support Type One’s mission to raise awareness for type 1 diabetes research at Massachusetts General Hospital.

The family-friendly Renegade Run, which begins at 9:00AM and is open to the public, will feature a course through four miles of paved trails and wooded terrain with over 25 obstacles including monkey bars to cross, walls and a cargo net to climb, and tunnels to crawl through. Post run activities include a Mini-Renegade Run for kids, live concert, food trucks, vendors and beer tent.

Type One was founded in 2012 by a group of South Shore residents to support their friend Tyson Sunnerberg, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which a person’s pancreas stops producing insulin, when he was 21 years old. On November 25, 2012, the first ever Renegade Run Obstacle Course Race was held raising awareness and funds toward a cure.

To date, Type One’s Renegade Run has generated thousands of dollars to support the Faustman Lab at MGH, which is run by Dr. Denise Faustman, director of the Immunobiology Laboratory at MGH, and is focused on discovering and developing new treatments for type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases. Dr. Faustman is currently leading a human clinical trial program testing the efficacy of the BCG (bacille Calmette-Guerin) vaccine for reversal of long-term type 1 diabetes.

To register for Renegade Run, please visit www.typeonerenegaderun.com or email info@type-one.org. For more information on the Faustman Lab at MGH and type 1 diabetes, please go to www.faustmanlab.org.