PORTLAND TO COAST! TO THE BEACHES! In August I will be walking with a team of 12 crazy, amazing, strong, dedicated, determined, did-I-mention-crazy friends in a relay to raise money to end cancer. Our team is called ‘To The Beaches!’ and the event is called PORTLAND TO COAST. We’re walking from Portland to - you guessed it - the coast (which is where the beaches are). Did you catch that? We’re walking to THE COAST. The. Coast. That’s *approximately* one million miles from Portland. Approximately. This may be a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s still huge. And crazy. And hard. But we’re doing it because cancer sucks. A lot. And having cancer, knowing someone who has cancer, or even just knowing that *anyone* ANYWHERE has cancer is a lot harder than walking. So we’ll walk. And walk, and walk, and walk, and walk. We’ll start at the crack o’ dawn on Friday, and walk all day. We’ll walk along long stretches of highway. We’ll walk across some lovely Oregon countryside. We’ll walk through towns. We’ll walk over mountains. We’ll follow each other in the support van and, per the relay schedule, we’ll relieve each other every few miles. If it’s hot, we’ll walk in the heat. If it rains, we’ll get wet. If it’s cold, we’ll bundle up. We’ll walk and walk and walk through the night in the dark. We’ll curl up and sleep in the van in between our turns if we can, and if we can’t, we’ll sing camp songs (Just kidding about the camp songs. Camp songs are, in fact, strictly forbidden in the van.) We’ll walk even if it hurts because we mean it when we say we want cancer GONE from the world. We’ll walk and walk and walk, and Saturday evening we’ll end up at the beach with thousands of other sweaty, blistered, exhausted, ELATED walkers. And we’ll be a million miles – approximately – closer to kicking cancer to the proverbial curb. There’s something else about our team. To The Beaches asked to be one of the 25 Fundraising Teams, and we were chosen! What a privilege! This means that every step we’ll take will be particularly meaningful. Every step will be a punch in the nose to cancer because every dollar we raise will go to Providence Cancer Center. Every dollar. And weve committed to raising 10,000 of them. Let’s put this in perspective... As I post this, the event is about 300 days away… About 40 weeks… About 10 months… If you skipped one latte every week between now and the event, there’s $160. BAM! Punch in the nose. If you put $1 in a shoebox every day between now and then, there’s $300. BAM! Kick in the knee. If you set $10 aside every week between now and then, there’s $400. BAM! Smack in the face. If you just got a cup of drip instead of that latte every day between now and then, there’s $600. BAM! Sock in the eye. And chances are your company has a donation matching program, which would double your contribution. BAM! BAM! If you took the change in that jar on your dresser (doesn’t everyone have one?) to the coin machine at the grocery store, I’ll bet it would be a donation amount you’d feel good about, and you’d probably find that button you thought you lost. BONUS! None of these small sacrifices would be painful. In fact, helping is the opposite of painful! It feels GOOD. True story. You know you want to punch cancer in the nose. Hard. Because cancer sucks. So do it. You donate. We’ll walk. Here’s how you do it: go here> crowdrise/TotheBeaches/ and click on the big, orange DONATE button. It’s easy! You’ll get an email thanking you for the donation that will double as a receipt for your taxes. Then share the love. Forward it on to your friends because networking works and your friends will feel just as good about donating as you do. And speaking of friends... If you are one of the people who is friends with all 12 of us, no worries about playing favorites. When you donate, you donate to the TEAM. We all win. Thank you!
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 00:34:04 +0000
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