Here we are, entering the last week of July. The Marathon Walk is two months from tomorrow and my personal training is going well, but slowly. I’m trying to make sure I don’t make the mistake I made last year of training too hard too early. My right knee, which I injured last year, feels stronger every day. I’m climbing lots of stairs each day and it seems to like that.

As of today, we have 16 Walkers officially signed up and have raised $15,791. That’s good for seventh place among all Walk teams, but about $6000 behind sixth place.

The Hank Landers Memorial Golf Tournament next Saturday will certainly help our fundraising numbers. Jenaleigh Landers raised a bundle with that event last year and it sounds like it will be as successful this year. I’ll be there to demonstrate conclusively that I am among the worst golfers in the known universe. Registration for that event has closed, but we have two other major efforts coming up in August.

The first of these is from Jillian Emmons. For a $50 donation to her Walk, she will create a one-of-a-kind Christmas Tree ornament based on a picture of your pet. You can find more information on this on our NETwalkers Alliance Facebook page. She is continuing her Norwex Parties that I talked about last month, as well.

Walking with Jane will host the First Annual Walking with Jane Miniature Golf Tournament at the Caddy Shack in North Dartmouth, MA on August 27 from 4 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. All proceeds raised will go to NETwalkers Alliance. We will split that money up among team members who work on that event. Entry fees are $10 for adults and $6 for children under 12. You can register at here or by sending a check to Walking with Jane at P.O. Box 9721, Fall River, MA 02720 for the amount necessary to cover the fees for those in your group.

I’ll be working on finding sponsors for both the miniature golf tournament and our Walk t-shirts over the next few weeks, as well as drafting my summer fundraising letter.

…a one-of-a-kind Christmas Tree ornament…

I am a real neophyte when it comes to smart phones. For those of you who are not, the Walk has a fundraising App you may find useful. You can learn about it and download it here.

The 2015 Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk event handbook is now available online! Check it out as you start to make  plans for the Walk.

You can view and share the Walk Heroes online, including our own Jillian Emmons.  You can also use this to help with your online fundraising letters and notes. And if you have fundraisers you’d like me to highlight–or need help with an issue, feel free to contact me with a comment here or a note to walkingwithjane@gmail.com.

Each of us has a reason to want NET cancer dead. Together, we are helping create a powerful research team at DFCI with the resources to do that job. But we need all the help we can get to make that happen.

Please join us if you can–and donate if you can’t. Please recruit others to the cause. Patients are counting on us.