On April 19th, Bree and I joined my mom and a team of ladies from her office in a 5K Walk for Diabetes. The organization that we were supporting is the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (http://www.jdrf.org/). We raised over $1,000 (Bree and I raised $150 the day before the walk). We really enjoyed the day. The foundation had a terrific kids area with moonbounces, crafts, face painting, tattoos, you name it. There was a live band (at 8am!!) as well as breakfast and lunch. We walked the course around the Frederick Community College campus after joining in a jazzercize warm-up with a gal in her early 60s and a very loud song from the 1980s. There were 500 people participating.
Apparently, we walked 5 miles rather than the planned 5K, which is only 3.1 miles. They didn't tell us how many times to walk the course, but had little shoes staked along the course that you were to follow. We noticed on the 2nd lap that the crowd had thinned dramatically. We just thought everyone was cheating . . . It was a terrific day with great weather in the 70s - Bree was a good girl in tow in my Ergo backpack and we made some new friends. And raised $ for diabetes research.
We walked in honor of my dad, Dan, and my grandfather Buddy Benson. We also walked for Elaine Gleaton's dad Chuck, Rick Brace and Tim Blaser from my work, Carole Larsen's husband Pinoake and Amy a previous employee in Planning. Our other sponsors were Harris Bradley and Kristin Turner. Thanks to everyone who supported us!!
Here are some pics from the big day . . .
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