Walk is September 21 this year

OK folks, here’s the skinny on Walking with Jane and the Marathon Walk September 21, 2014. We will have a team again this year to raise money for the Walking with Jane Dybowski Fund for Neuroendocrine and Carcinoid Tumors at DFCI. There has been some talk of us combining forces with both Caring for Carcinoid and one or two other groups and I am thinking about a change in the team name to Carcinoid Walking United–or something along those lines–if that happens.

If you have ideas for fundraisers…

DFCI expects the site to launch for the

2014 walk the first week in February. I have some paperwork I have to do between now and the end of the month to earmark the money we raise for the Jane Dybowski Fund and the primary researchers–Jen Chan and Matt Kulke–whose work the money supports. I’m holding off on that while I wait to hear from the other teams.

Time to start thinking and training

As far as I know, the distances and starting points will be the same as last year. If you want to walk in with me from Hopkinton, you may want to start training soon. I know I will start as soon as I kick this bug I have been fighting since I got back from Seattle.

We will have a team again this year to raise money…

If you have ideas for fundraisers you want to set up, let me know and I will do my best to be there to help out. If you have thoughts on goals for this year–whether in terms of number of walkers or total raised, let me know. My plan is to set up the team page the day the site goes live.

Runs and walks between now and then

Between now and then, I also plan to do a number of other walks as training exercises. These will include the Fairhaven, MA MS Walk (three miles) in early April, The Walk for Hunger in Boston (20 miles), and the Tripp Scholarship 5K run or walk, in May, the Fall River Relay for Life in June, the Run, Walk or Crawl 5K in July or August, as well as some other players to be named later. If you’d like to join us for any of those, we’d be glad to see you. I will set up team pages for the MS Walk and the Walk for Hunger shortly if people are interested in being a team for either of those events.

Ripple and spread

It’s time to start talking to people who told us they wanted to walk last year but couldn’t. Help this ripple and spread by sharing it far and wide.

–Harry Proudfoot
Walking with Jane