Go Walking in a 3-Day Wonderland in 2014 – for only $35!

For Susan G. Komen 3-Day® participants, the most wonderful time of the year is those 3 beautiful days in the summer or fall spent walking toward a world without breast cancer. And even though there are not any more Komen 3-Day events this year, you can still feel some of that 3-Day magic by making a commitment now to walk again with family and friends in 2014.

The days are shorter, the temperatures lower, and time is running out to register for the 2014 3-Day® for just $35. This discounted registration fee will expire at midnight tomorrow, December 12^th. You don’t need a special code for this discount – just register for the 3-Day (at The3Day.org or by calling 800-996-3DAY), and you’ll get the lowest price of the year. On December 13^th, the price will go up, so you don’t want to wait!

This holiday season, give yourself the gift of a life-changing 3 days, and you’ll also be giving the world the gift of hope for the day when we will be able to celebrate an end to breast cancer.

Susan G. Komen walkers gear up and take on Day 1 for breast cancer awareness.

This way to a cure

Dr. Sheri’s Thoughts on the 2013 3-Day Series

As the National Spokesperson for the Susan G. Komen 3-Day®, Dr. Sheri Phillips has a priceless perspective on the 3-Day. She is there for every single event, meets hundreds of walkers and crew members personally, and touches the lives of thousands beyond that with her charisma, energy and passionate dedication to ending breast cancer. We asked for some of her reflections on this year’s 3-Day:

“The 2013 Susan G. Komen 3-Day Series went by so incredibly fast! It was a year of joyous reunions with returning walkers and crew members and getting to know so many of our new walkers. This season brought a continuous smile to my face as I heard stories of compassion, perseverance and triumph.

“I remember what it felt like as a first-time walker when I participated in the 2010 Susan G. Komen Chicago 3-Day. The love and compassion I felt as a survivor was indescribable as I was surrounded by thousands of people who shared the same goal as me – creating a world without breast cancer. It was life changing. And now after completing my third year as national spokesperson, this event is still changing my life.

“This year John Shinar followed in the footsteps of Jim Hillmann (2011) and Glen Dekeyser (2012) by walking in all (14) 3-Day events in 2013, in honor and memory of his beautiful wife, Martha, who died from breast cancer in June 2012. They shared a beautiful 30 year marriage, 20 years of which she battled the disease.

John Shinar walked 840 Miles for Martha in 2013

John and Dr. Sheri share Martha’s story in camp

“I met Tommi-Jean Mason in 2011 when she was wheelchair bound and had to be pushed the entire 60 miles. In 2012, she walked all 60 miles with the assistance of a wheeled walker. This year the miracles continued as this young woman who was told she would never walk again walked all 60 miles without any assistance! When she arrived to camp on Friday night as our last walker, I was so overwhelmed with joy that I burst into tears, but within moments my tears turned to laughter as she looked me square in the eye with similar tears running down her red cheeks and exclaimed ’I have blisters Dr. Sheri! I walked all 20 miles and I have blisters!’ She was the first walker to ever tell me they were happy to have blisters!

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“I thought I knew how tough I was…”

Samantha B. wasn’t sure what she was getting herself into when she registered for the 2013 Susan G. Komen Seattle 3-Day. All she knew was that if her mom could fight and survive breast cancer three times, she could walk 60 miles. Over the course of her training and fundraising during the year, and then on the event itself, Samantha learned more than she ever expected – about walking, about the 3-Day, and about her own inner strength.

Samantha and her mom, Jan

This was Samantha’s experience, in her own words:

“This by far is one of the toughest things I have ever undertaken in my life. I thought I knew how tough I was before this walk started. But by day two, I knew that I had surpassed my own expectations of myself. Here are some of the highlights that I learned over three days:

Walking is completely different than running.
When someone honks at you, your first inclination better be to use all five fingers to wave because they are cheering you on.
Going downhill just means that you’re going to use the other leg muscles you forgot about when you were going up.
This may be the only time in your life when you are excited to see the police because they are decked out in pink and cheering you on.
The training emails weren’t really a suggestion.
When you are at what you think is the point of exhaustion, your body can go a heck of a lot farther, you just have to believe in yourself and put that foot in front of the other.

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