The month of September is when Memory Walks are held all over the country. Our local Memory Walk was held today in Wilton. And what a beautiful day it was! The Memory Walk is annually the largest fundraiser for the Alzheimer's Association, which provides support and services to those who have this prevalent degenerative disease and research to one day end it. This is my 2nd year participating when I was a team of one then and this event has grown significantly since last year. The amount of walkers overall grew significantly from last year also to approximatley 90 walkers this year.
Our team named Memory Keepers consisted of 6 walkers today; my sister Janice, my son Chris, daughter Emily, friends Holly Paul and Michelle Beedy, and myself. (We missed you, Tammy and Julie.) And I know my Dad was with us as well. We were the 2nd highest fundraising team, raising $730! We rocked! And we had fun! Our goal is to grow our team in size and donations for next year, so let me know if you are interested in joining us. Always the last Saturday in September, by the way.
I chose to do the shorter of the two available walking routes today for various reasons. What it lacked in distance, it made up for in grade, in parts - steep!
Our team gathered for breakfast after the Walk and awards and replenished our carb levels we had depleted. :-)
Thanks to those that contributed and definitely to those who participated. It was esp. great to share this with my sister (Cathy, I know you were there with us in spirit) and with my kids, and to have both my kids under our roof again last night. That happens very rarely these days.
So tomorrow this LLOTM is back to the walk/run plan - the 5K is 2 weeks from today.
Today was indeed a good day. I hope it was for you as well.
Until next time....
LLOTM
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