For the nineteenth year, I am walking. Over the last eighteen years, I have walked in 32 events, and walked 1,920 miles. This year, I will be walking an additional 120 miles in at Boston, and San Diego. Next November I will have walked over 2,040 miles, and will have raised over $80,000. 
I’m walking for Patti. This really sucked. I was talking to you one moment, and you were gone the next. Your passing absolutely rocked our community, you will never be forgotten, and cancer did NOT take your pretty.

I'm walking for someone I graduated high school with but didn't really meet until the last few years. In that time, we have become exceptionally close, not just our friendship, but our entire social circle. We are all concerned by your condition, but INSPIRED by your strength, resolve, and (of course), unflappable smile. You know who you are. You know you're going to beat this. But this is STILL for you.

I'm walking in spite of ANYONE who thinks I shouldn’t, can't or won’t.

I’m walking for that lady in San Diego with the sign, I don’t know your name and I don’t want to know your name, I just want to see you every year.

I’m walking for 88 biomarkers that are helping to tailor treatment strategies on an individual level.

I’m walking for Lindsey. Diagnosed way too young, then went into remission, then got pregnant and made a courageous decision. Then it came back. I’m also walking for Lindsay’s daughter, who recently became an orphan. Your mother was unstoppable until the end.

I’m walking for lymphedema pumps because a lifetime of treatments is still a lifetime.

I’m walking for an amazing friend named Teresa. Gone way too soon, also for Brigette, Lindsay, Cathy, Celeste, Shannon, Tina, Lisa, Staci’s grandmas, Kim, Amy, Rick’s wife, John’s wife, Greg’s wife, and everyone you love who has been taken by this unacceptable horseshit.

I’m walking for a breakthrough medication that can allow BRCA positive people to delay their choices.

I’m walking for clinical trials that have kept tumors at bay.

I’m walking for Lee. The first MALE breast cancer survivor I ever met, gone way too soon, from a disease that simply doesn't discriminate. Walk on, brother. I'm also walking for his wife, who's walked enough.

I’m walking for a family from Jersey all affected in different ways.

I’m walking for Sharon, Viv, Jen, Gail, Catherine, Jodi, and other every survivor I met on the 3-Day.

I’m walking for the 79 new treatments that are currently being tested to fight breast cancer and triple negative breast cancer.

I’m walking for a promise I made eight years ago to a beautiful young woman named Sarah with the Young Survivor’s coalition of San Diego. Eight years ago, in tears, she made me promise I would keep walking as long as I can. I was happy she was informed this year that I’m still walking.

I’m walking for a potential breakthrough that can arrest the effects of triple negative breast cancer and allow chemo to work more effectively discovered by a sixteen year old.

I’m walking for Friends with Heart, and the amazing support they gave me at a time when it was all going to hell, and for friendships I made the likes of which I haven’t experienced since middle school. I miss all of you constantly. Doesn’t seem possible to be having that much fun while doing that much good.

I’m walking for the 43% decline in breast cancer deaths since I started walking. WE did that together.

I’m walking because ONE donation might pay for a mammogram or treatment for someone who can’t afford it, or it might fund a few hours of research. I’m walking because either way, ONE donation could save a life.

I’m walking for the uninsured, the underinsured, the homeless, the unemployed and all those that can least afford to get it and need our help the most.

I’m walking for my entire 3-Day Family, everyone I’ve ever walked with, and for everyone they’ve walked for, but especially for those in the (seemingly limitless) INNER Inner circle, and for everyone THEY are walking for, and for the focus and inspiration they provide me with. I will carry your fears, concerns and victories in my heart every step of the way. I will embrace your friendship forever. Time to line up!

I’m walking because I believe we all have an obligation to change the world around us and because I believe service to others is the rent we pay for the privilege of spending time alive, on this earth, in this life. And because walking challenges me, physically, emotionally, socially