Workout raises funds to boost childhood cancer research
BUTLER TWP — The ultimate workout to raise money for childhood cancer research is taking place Saturday.
Sixty two-member teams will take on the challenge of the Ultimate Chipper 2019 at CrossFit Recreate on 534 Fairground Hill Road to raise money for CureSearch for Children's Cancer Research in the name of Wesley Zablocki, who died from a form of bone cancer in 2015 at age 11.
A chipper is a workout in which a person completes a stated number of repetitions of an exercise before moving on to the next exercise in a series.
The Ultimate Chipper is a workout known as Wesley's Workout of the Day (WAD). The number of repetitions each team will do is planned based on important dates from Wesley's life, such as his birth date, said his mother, Nikki Zablocki of Butler.
“We have 120 athletes signed up to come and do the workout. So, it's exciting,” she said.
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