Author Archives: Ricky White

World AS Day 2018 — Selfie Contest

Would you like to win a Fitbit, a signed bestselling book, or a Walk Your AS Off cap?  Then you’re in luck, because that is what we are giving away to three lucky winners! How to enter: Post a minimum of 10 selfies to an individual Instagram account tagged with the hashtag #ASwalkSelfie and #worldASday. […]

A Dedication to Melinda Frisch — Team: The ClASsy Walkers

Kicking Cancer’s Ass/The ClASsy Walkers Joel: We would like to welcome all our dear friends and family and to thank the community for honoring the life of Melinda Siegel Frisch. My sister, Hannah, and I would like to tell you a little bit about our mom, and why we loved her so much, while sharing […]

A Dedication to Diane Cappelli — Team: Kick AS Striders

Diane Cappelli was born in August of 1960 in NJ. It wasn’t until she was about 16 years old that she started to experience lower back pain. At that time, doctors were unsure why she was experiencing this pain but decided since they didn’t know why they would prescribed pain medications for her to deal […]

How I Walked My AS Off — Charlotte's Story of Climbing Mt. Fuji

I’d never given Mount Fuji a thought before I came to Japan. Even when I arrived here nearly a year ago it seemed a vague and unattainable thing; something merely depicted in art, pictures, and advertisements. Most of the people I asked about it had only seen the mountain from afar. Yet somehow the hair-brained […]

And the results are in! — This years stats

Congratulations steppers for crossing the finish line. You should all be very proud of yourselves. This is a run-down of the stats from this year’s walk. Now although Walk Your AS Off is an awareness event, and it’s not a race, we do like to keep track of how our teams are doing. Nothing wrong […]

My Story – by Bret (part 2)

Thank you for coming back. Your emails have been very nice to read, and I truly feel your pain. The main objective of my story is to help others understand, and for you to hear from someone who has been very recently diagnosed with A.S. This article is aimed at the guys/girls who are brave […]

My Story – by Bret (Part 1)

HLA-B27 – These used to be just letters and numbers to me. But these numbers have changed my life in a blink of an eye, as they have yours, and YOU ARE NOT ALONE. And if this blood test is positive, we both have Ankylosing Spondylitis. It is a horrible autoimmune system disease that attacks […]

Walk AS One World Cup: An Interview with the Winners – reFUSE to Lose

This year was the very first Walk AS One World Cup! There were two separate categories in this years cup, which were for the total number of team steps, and the total average steps per walker. I got in touch with Jessica Cuccio, the team captain of reFUSE to Lose, and winners of this years total […]

WYASO Round-Up Finale 2015

Welcome to the final round-up of the WYASO main event. We do hope you had a wonderful time participating in this years walk, and we hope you achieved your own personal goals too. We’d like to thank everyone for their hard work and dedication to raising awareness for AS. Without the support of each and […]

WYASO Round-Up: Week 3

Welcome to the third WYASO Round-Up. This is your chance to catch up on all the amazing things that the WYASO community have been up to in the last week. If you didn’t catch our other round-ups, you can read week one and week two by clicking on the links. The LOVE Run in Taipei – The Walking Spondies […]