Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, Oct 11

I signed up to participate in a 5K walk on October 11 for the Susan G. Komen foundation's Race for the Cure. Some folks will be timed. Some folks will run. I'm not one of either. I'm going to be there to walk and show my support, but this chick ain't runnin'.

This is the first time I've ever done anything like this. My t-shirt came in the mail today, along with my little number bib, complete with safety pins. I don't know what possessed me to sign up for this, but it seemed like the thing to do when I found out about it.

The registration confirmation and the fundraising email that I was sent to send out to others had some interesting facts in it. 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. There are 9 regulart readers of my blog - 8 of them are women. 1 of us will be diagnosed at some point. A new diagnoses is made every 3 minutes, and every 13 minutes, somebody dies from breast cancer. Scary stuff.

When I first got these statistics, they were only numbers. This weekend, it hit home pretty hard - one of the ladies at my church has recently been diagnosed and now has to decide what she is going to do.

If you would like to make a contribution to the foundation, you can go to http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?SID=1979440 to donate securely online with your debit or credit card. It's a tax deductible contribution, and you'll get a receipt right away.