Chesterfield Police Officer Marathons For Sick Children

Catheters and Cuffs is the name of the Chesterfield team of runners that run to raise money in the St. Jude Memphis Marathon.

By Keith Rider, a detective with the Chesterfield Police Department My wife and I are the captains of a team of 26 runners signed up to attend the 2011 St. Jude Memphis Marathon on Dec. 3.  Our team is called Catheters and Cuffs and consists of several nurses from St. Luke’s Hospital, Chesterfield police officers, their spouses and others who are connected to these professions somehow. The purpose of this team is to not only run in the various races (Marathon, Half Marathon, 5k), but more importantly to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Hospital. At St. Jude, no child is refused treatment due to the inability to pay, so donations are crucial.  The statistics regarding cure rates of certain types of childhood cancers treated at St. Jude …

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79-Year-Old Chesterfield Resident Completes Chicago Marathon

Arnold Mueller has been on the run for 40 years.

This week, Patch introduces you to Arnold Mueller, 79, a 35-year Chesterfield resident and a frequent marathon runner.  When we spoke with Mueller, he had just competed in the Gumbo Flats 5K Pumpkin Run, where he finishedfirst in his age group of 70 and over with a time of 31 minutes, 34 seconds. We asked him about the Chicago Marathon: "I'm not proud of that," he said. "At mile 11 or 12, I could tell that things weren't right." They weren't. Mueller was beginning to feel the effects of dehydration. Still, he forced himself to trudge on. By the time he approached the finish line he was struggling, and with very few runners left in the race, medical personnel were waiting for him. He was immediately taken to the hospital where he was kept…

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