2 walks

It’s hard to walk 60 miles, and I am considering walking 120 miles this year! Yes, I really want to walk in 2 events this year. My long term goal is to walk in every single city! I think that would be amazing! My snag this year isn’t time, it’s not the 120 journey, it’s not that I’m not motivated, or that I just really don’t want to participate in multiple walks. Once again, I meet the struggle with raising money. $2300 is the minimum amount of money you have to raise in order to walk in one event. I’m going to need to raise $4600 in order to make my goal of two events in 2012. I don’t want to use this blog as a complaint, because honestly I am not complaining. Yes, the money is very hard to raise, but I know that I am capable of raising enough money to walk in two cities this year.

What inspires you? I have to ask myself that question every time I think about my walk. What inspires me the most, is walking with my friends I met the previous year so that I can catch up face to face and not via computer or text. I get so inspired by all of the survivors who at the end of the walk I will salute with my shoe. I am inspired by my grandmother who beat breast cancer, my step mother who beat non-Hodgkin’s. It’s very easy for me to be inspired by the participants who carry those heavy flags every day. The best inspiration I can find comes from those who are walking, and still fighting. The pain I feel deep into my bones is nothing in comparison to those who just had chemo and walked as far as they could.

Those inspirations are what drive me to make sure that I raise the money I am required to raise, so that not only will I be able to walk in two events, 120 miles for 2012 – but so that I can help fund research – the essential component to finding a cure.

The purpose of tonight’s blog, is to renew my spirits. I know that this is a journey, from the moment you sign up, to every dollar raised, to the actual event, and with the friendships you keep. Every walk, every year is unique. I don’t want to miss out on any of it.