Relay For Life

Walking on Sunshine

Hopefully it will be a nice day/night at least.

A few weeks ago all the March of Dimes notices starting going up all over town. I still don't think I'm ready for that--it's something like 8 miles--but I thought I'd look for another 5k (3 miles) to do. The one I participated in back in November for the Fisher House went fairly well. I wanted to get back out and not only get some exercise but also contribute to a worthy cause.

GHFC was organizing for the Lung Cancer walk/run, but for reasons I won't get into here, I decided I didn't want to do that one. There were a couple of 5k's advertised at Starbucks on their bulletin board, but one of those was today and I wasn't quite ready for that. Another one is associated with the local roller derby team, which could be kind of interesting, but I went browsing to see what else was happening and came across Relay For Life (American Cancer Society). My friend Lorie was listed as a team captain for the relay coming up in Newberry, so I figured that was an omen :)

This isn't exactly a 5k, it's just going around a track for a number of hours (overnight!) as a team--in a relay (go figure). I'm not sure how I'll do, but Lorie said anything will be a help to the team. It runs from 6pm Friday evening, until 11:30 am Saturday. I may get one of those boxes of Starbucks coffee or something :)

I used the Relay web site to send out my "please give money" letter to some friends and family, but when I previewed it the promised link to the donation page wasn't showing up correctly. If anyone out there feels like donating, here's a potentially working link:

Direct link to donation page, I hope

Or you can go to the Relay For Life home page, scroll down to "Support a Participant or Team", type in my name and hit "search", then click on the "donate" button when my name and team's name shows up (we're "Friends For Life").

I plan on taking a lot of photos and giving an update here in a couple of weeks. I will have a gym bag packed Friday night, and as soon as it's over on Saturday I will be heading to GHFC, taking a long shower and soaking in the hot tub!