Honor Teammate Picnic

Just a quick blurb on this right now. I'll add more when I'm more awake.
A couple of weeks ago we had our Honored Teammate Picnic where we met our official honored teammates (people who have been affected by a blood cancer) and those of individual participants.
People took turns telling about their experience and what brought them to TNT. The stories talked about everything from a woman who's been a survivor for 26 years to a young father who died within 3 weeks of diagnosis.
I'd been doing this training to get in shape and push my physical limits. I wanted to accomplish something big in it. At the picnic it stopped being about me. It's about the horrible things people have dealt with as they watch family members deal with a blood cancer. The remissions, reoccurances, miracles, and devastation.

This day made me increase my personal $$ goal from $2900 to over $4000. TNT is aiming for the $1 billion dollar mark this year. I'm going to help them accomplish that. Every dollar does something.