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#reverb10 – day 3 – moment

Moment. Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year. Describe it in vivid detail (texture, smells, voices, noises, colors).
Yep, I’m behind on this little project. Shocker.

I think it was the 2nd morning of the 2011 3 Day. I was ass-tired, so at our morning caffeine fill up stop, I bought a 5 Hour Energy Drink. I slammed it down (which is not easy, by the way) and about 2 minutes later, I’m pretty sure I’d never felt that alive in my entire life. I could see three months into the future and am pretty sure I got a 15 passenger van up to 55 in a 25 mph zone at 7am. I WAS SO ALIVE.

yep the 3 day is over

1. Gatorade straight out of the bottle seems way to sweet compared to the watered down version of it you get during The 3 Day.
2. I can do a U-Turn in an intersection without having to swing way out, run over a curb, or turn it into a five point turn.
3. I have to actually think about where I’ll be getting three meals a day and all the snacks I could possibly want.
4. Pedestrians aren’t as happy to see me when I drive by.
5. I can’t just pull my car into any parking spot and leave it there while I go to the bathroom.
6. There’s nobody wearing an orange shirt at an intersection letting me cut in front of other traffic.
7. When I stop my car at an intersection, I don’t fill it up with ladies wearing pink and then tell the five other ladies that need a ride that I’ll radio into Command and send someone their way.
8. I’m not worrying about foam cutout fish flying off the side of my car while I go down the freeway.
9. I don’t have to get concerned if someone I drive by doesn’t give me a thumbs up signal.
10. Asking people that get in my car if they have to pee hasn’t been going over so well.
11. My co-workers aren’t driving Budget trucks full of ice, wearing a pirate hat while helping direct traffic, wrapping up blisters with athletic tape or spending the whole day on Nextel radios trying to make sure everyone is in the right place at the right time.
12. When I get close to something while backing up, my car doesn’t beep at me over and over.

the 3 day cometh

My alarm set for 6.5 hours from now. The only thing I’d do this for is The 3 Day. For the next three days, I’ll be in a van with Regina, while Jenni and Cindi handle all of the logistical madness from camp. Jumi will be coordinating the efforts of all the buses on the route and 395 other crew members will be making sure everything goes right. Our Sweep Team won the top fundraising team (free dinner at moto-i sometime after the walk!) and an ice cream social (which we get tomorrow!). In all, the crew raised over $80,000.

The walkers, approximately 2400 of them, will all pack up and head to Edina tomorrow morning to begin a 60 mile long journey. They’ve raised $6.4 million dollars as of today and now they embark on the physical challenge of this event. If you’re out and about in the Twin Cities area and you see some people dressed in pink, guzzling water, and looking like they can barely make it 10 more feet, show them your support. You can honk, wave, yell, whistle, anything you want. Walking those 60 miles are not easy. You’ve all seen pictures of my blisters and heard stories of my post-walk trips to the hospital. Any bit of encouragement you can offer, will be taken with arms wide open.

If you work downtown, step out on your lunch breaks on Friday to high five some people. Saturday is a good day to just track down some walkers at any one of these cheering stations. And on Sunday, closing ceremonies in St. Paul is a fantastic event that culminates all of our effort and hard work.

And just as a reminder for over the weekend:

wanna write a letter?

Do you know someone walking in the Twin Cities 3-Day? (YES, YES, YOU DO. ME!)

Send them a letter in camp at:

3-Day for the Cure
ATTN: Wendy Berry
P.O. Box 25617
Woodbury, MN 55125

Letters must be postmarked August 10th. Go here for more details
http://www.the3day.org/site/PageServer?pagename=TC_Spectator

I like letters! You can still donate at http://www.the3day.org/goto/wendyberry, but if you don’t have any cash, I’d be very happy with a letter, too!

bowling for boobs is tonight!

Hey, need something to do tonight?

Bowling for Boobs III: Don’t Call it a Comeback is coming up soon and we’d love to have you there!

Date: Thursday, June 17
Time: 7pm – 10pm
Location: Memory Lanes, 2520 26th Avenue South in Minneapolis (map)

Memory Lanes has been kind enough to donate the use of their bowling alley for our Breast Cancer 3-Day fundraiser! We’ll have open bowling and a silent auction featuring a pair of front-row Twins tickets, a Minneapolis print by Adam Turman, paintball passes, haircuts at Head to Toe, handmade items, movie passes, photography sessions, music lessons, and gift cards for several local bars and restaurants.

Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for kids. Bring your friends! Bring your kids! Bring random strangers off the street!

Winning bids on silent auction items can be paid with cash, check (made out to the Breast Cancer 3-Day), or credit card. If you’re on Facebook, please RSVP there and feel free to pass it along to anyone you know! If you’re not on Facebook, feel free to contact us via email or just by posting a comment here.

I’d love to see you there!

the 3 day is only 3 months away

So, basically, that means it’s as good of a time as any to throw a few bucks my way. IN THE NAME OF BOOBS!

P.S. Please mark your calendars for June 17th! We’re having a bowling fundraiser at Memory Lanes in Minneapolis, along with a silent auction and all around good time!

year #6 and i just can’t stop

This year marks the 6th year I’ve participated in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure walk. In those six years, I’ve lived in different cities, had different jobs, and different people on my team. The walk itself has gone through different routes, different goals, and even a different name. The one thing that’s been consistent all this time? We still don’t have a cure for breast cancer.

The good news is that every year the mortality rate for this disease is decreasing. The bad news is that there’s still a mortality rate. An estimated 2.5 million women living in the U.S. have a history of breast cancer. Do you know one of those 2.5 million women? I do. I have friends, friends’ parents, family members, former co-workers; all who have been effected in some way, shape or form.

Any support you can provide as I gear up to participate in my 6th straight 3 Day event is greatly appreciated. Five dollars from each and every one of my friends and family members can add up very quickly. Together, you and I can really make a difference. (Stolen from my donation page, which you can find here.)

I’m crewing once again this year on the Sweep Team, but this year, I’m a Captain. That’s big time, folks. We had our first Captain’s Meeting this Saturday, where we watched some YouTube clips about Sherpas and climbing mountains and talked about way cheesy things. That’s just what you do with The 3 Day. Don’t worry, it took me a while to get used to it, too.

Naturally, being around a group of people that were so jacked up about The 3 Day got me a little jacked up, too. I think I even heard Jenni mention doing another fundraiser.

If you have $5 extra bucks, won’t you consider putting it to good use? It’s better than spending it on coffee or soda from the vending machine!