What is ALS?

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as "Lou Gehrig's Disease," is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.

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I challenge all teams across the state to participate, and we will post them all here on the site. You can email me (dveilleux@milesplit), tweet your video or tag me on your video on Facebook.

Here are a few videos

I was challenged by Flrunners.com (Todd Grasley), and nominated Cape XC Captains Kyle Kennedy & Mitchell Morris

Falmouth XC coaches Danny Paul & Jorma Kurry did their own Ice Bucket Challenge

The Falmouth girls (Ania Wright) participated as well and called out the Cape Elizabeth girls & Kyle Kennedy

The Cape Elizabeth girls & Kyle accepted, while they nominated the Yarmouth Girls

Yarmouth complete their challenge, and the Yarmouth Boys & Cape Elizabeth boys have been nominated

Cape Boys accepted the challenge, they have called out Freeport & York XC teams

Meanwhile in the SMAA Gorham started things off by challenging Westbrook, Marshwood, & Windam

Westbrook accepted the challenge, and they have called out Scarborough, Fryeburg, & Cheverus boys

The KVAC is involved as well as the Winslow team has now called out Waterville

Leavitt did the ice bucket challenge they have nominated Maranacook & Spruce Mountain

Brunswick completed the Challenge after being nominated by Mt Blue, they called out Morse, MTA and Richmond XC