Spreading the Word

Yesterday we walked the Susan G Komen Race for the Cure (5K) with about 20 people from work in support of a girl from our marketing department- Heather (age 26). She was diagnosed with Cancer about 3 weeks ago, since then she has had a double mastectomy and learned it has spread into 26 of her lymph nodes.  She starts chemo today and an aggressive radiation schedule soon. So we all went out and walked with and for her. (shes in our prayers everyday). It took us 1:28mins and 294Kcals burned AND yes I used it for my Sunday training.

Before the race, I met a friend Heidi at Starbucks and we drove in together, I told her I was training for the PF Changs 1/2 Marathon and the more I talked about it, the more I convinced her to sign up with me. Then when we got to the Race and started walking, my co-worker Amy told our CEO that I was training and he too wanted to do it, then he told another co-worker that was with us, Luke, and he is going to train for it too.and so on and so on... 
By the time we finished, the majority of my co-workers that came out to this walk, are now training and wanting to run the PF Change's 1/2. We are going to make a company team, order running shirts, start a training program for it at work and send a note out to everyone who would like to participate to sign up! (we are even trying to get the $115 entry fee expensed)

Well there is only one small issue with everyone training and running on January 16th 2011.  The entire company will be in Las Vegas that weekend for a meeting that ends on Saturday night with a dance party. The latest flight out on Saturday (before the race) is 10:30pm and there will be about 10 of us (so far) all trying to get on that flight back only to wake up at the crack of dawn to run the next day!

Good news with this is I now don't have to get permission to leave the event early (even though I am the Events Planner of this event) but since I was the one to start this mess, I better get the first seat back on that flight!


Today is a rest day so Happy Monday!