The Brain Injury Association of Rhode Island (BIARI) recently announced that the Keep Your Head Up Walk and Run will be held on Saturday, May 5 at 8 a.m. at Goddard Memorial State Park in Warwick.

In addition to the run and walk, the event will also feature a Kid’s Fun Run, an optional obstacle course run, bicycle helmet distribution and fittings, vendor information booths and games. Part of this family-friendly will include a special performance of “Marvelous Marvin’s Brain Circus”. The hour-long children’s show includes a rhyming overture about brain health and its links with exercise and reading, and will include learning circus skills like juggling props, balancing sticks, hula hoops, and more.

This year event includes the support and participation of Tracy Foster, a Doctor of Physical Therapy and personal trainer with a 15 year running career, racing and competing in local races in Rhode Island and ranking in the top 3 percent of female runners in the state. She states that it is her pleasure to advocate the importance of brain injury awareness and the work of the Brain Injury Association of Rhode Island.

Walkers and participants who want to register for the Kid’s Fun Run should contact Robyn Chapman at 228-3319 or robyn@biari.org. Runners can register by logging onto my.racewire.com/athletes.The top three teams of runners or walkers who raise the most donations will be entered into our Keep Your Head Up Mystery Raffle.

In 1983, families of persons with brain injuries founded the Brain Injury Association of Rhode Island (BIARI) in order to provide desperately needed resources, information, and access to services. The Brain Injury Association of Rhode Island (BIARI) is a statewide organization, dedicated specifically to increasing awareness of brain injury and its consequences, educating the public, and providing support, guidance, and resources for those who are suddenly faced with both the immediate and potentially long-term effects of brain injury.