The Spring Season Kickoff for DC was Saturday, December 3, and it was an inspiring event. One of my coaches is a 13-year lymphoma survivor. He had his "boys" frozen before he started treatment all those years ago, before he even met his wife, and we got to meet his 7-week-old daughter Lilly. Unbelievable.
Other than being wildly out of place amongst all those morning people, the atmosphere is warm, supportive and enthusiastic about the spring season. I sat with a group doing the CCM. We are all newbies! None of us have ever done anything like this before. The coaches and mentors all introduced themselves, and they're an amazing group of people who do this because they love it and believe in the mission of curing cancer.
The national director for the TNT program said one thing I found especially comforting and wanted to share with everyone on Team Mark: "Congratulations on taking the first step to completing your goal. It's a big step, and let me assure you that it is the last step you will take alone on your journey." Having met these people, and knowing most of you, I really believe that.
Because I'm an OCD, over achiever, busy body, I put the entire training schedule in my day planner and created an online calendar for everyone, too. There is a tab in the main navigation for a new page with every minute and mile of training logged from today, Day 1, to Race Day. Be sure to read the message the top of that page for a few details.
As everyone who's running gets signed up, please send me your fundraising page link, so I can add it to the site. For the cheerleaders out there, feel free to send us messages on chilling mornings when you know we're probably fighting ourselves to get out of the house to group runs (that are at insanely early hours as far as I'm concerned!).
We're having an athletes' clinic next week after our group run, and I'll share any tips, tricks, etc. that I learn. I hope you all will, too.
Big love.
-R.
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