I am going to use this blog to journal online and keep track of my Burpees throughout the year. For any of you that do not know, I lost my mother to breast cancer at the young age of 52 after a 2 year battle with the disease. When I turned 30 I had to fight with my insurance to get them to cover a mammogram despite the family history and the fact that I had 4 children and wanted to be proactive with my health. I decided to do this year long challenge to raise funds for a non-profit organization called "Mammograms in Action" which helps low income and uninsured people get mammograms. Please pass the word around and help support this cause -http://www.mammogramsinaction.org/ . I started this journey on September 15, 2011 which would have been my mother's 62 birthday. I did 1 burpee on that day and have added one burpee every day since. Today I will be doing 26 burpees bringing the total to 351. After this year long journey I will have done 67, 161!!! It sounds horrible....trust me, I know but compared to the daily struggle people go through (that my mother went through) living with cancer it's nothing! I will be posting videos throughout the year for accountability. Thank you for your support.
Here are 4 of the last 25 days. Days #1, #2, #12 (best part is Vanessa's cheer at the end) and day #16 w/Vanessa. I have been documenting all of my burpees and these are all in addition to any burpess that are part of my regular crossfit WODs.
You Go Girl, keep your head up !
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