The Avon Walk for Breast Cancer
This past weekend, Hubby and I participated in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer as part of the crew. Last year, we had participated in a cheering station and I knew immediately that I wanted to be involved in this walk this year. The Avon walk is a 2-day event where walkers walk a marathon on Saturday and a half marathon on Sunday, totally nearly 40 miles walked.
My sister and I had talked extensively about walking in it, but she was in a wedding this weekend, so she couldn’t (congrats Erica!). So instead, Hubby and I decided to crew. The crew signs up for the entire weekend. You don’t just voluteer for a few hours, you’re there to help make the weekend a sucess for the entire weekend.
We were assigned to Quick Stop A. Quick stops provide walkers with water, gatorade, and porta-potties. We were the first quick stop, so we had to be there at 4:30AM on Saturday! I was the first to sign the Avon Walk tower. It was pitch dark and the breakfast tent wasn’t even set up yet at that point.
Check out the lines for the porta-potties at around 8AM on Saturday at our quick stop!! After working hard and cheering on walkers all day Saturday, we camped out at the Wellness Village. We were up and on our way again at 6AM Sunday. We had a blast getting to know our teammates throughout the weekend and we even signed up for next year’s event while we were there.
Check out some of the other pictures I captured over the weekend.
This is all the gear waiting to be picked up. The entire event was very well organized!
It was SO windy on Saturday – a bunch of the tents kept getting blown over.
These people are walking or crewing all nine walks this year! Can you imagine?!?
The youth crew was awesome! They were so energetic and helpful.
The Wellness Village was located at the Reebok headquarters in Canton, MA. What a beautiful campus!!
Walking back to the sea of tents to head for bed.
There was a backup at the finish line on Sunday.
This was the line of crew members leading into the closing ceremony. It was a great weekend that was truly inspirational.
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
Congratulations! That is quite an accomplishment. I did the Susan B. Komen walk a few years ago, and I remember that it was a wonderful feeling afterwards (although I had very ugly feet all summer from the blisters!). I hope you continue to celebrate!
Congrats on finishing! I’m doing the Susan G Komen Walk for the first time fall and really appreciated your recap about how it went and what to expect.
Congrats Jen!! It sounds like such an amazing experience and it’s incredible you raised so much money!
Congrats on completing the walk! Sounds like it was quite the experience and I can relate to the whole sunburn on the legs thing – I slathered up from head to toe for the Walk for Hunger but somehow wasn’t thinking about the back of my legs. I STILL have the tan lines from that. 🙂
congrats!!! you should be so proud of yourself, that is one tough weekend, but it brings so much awareness and $ to a great cause. the amount you raised is quite impressive 🙂
I would LOVE to participate in something like this!!
I know it probably feels like a wonderful accomplishment…which it is!
xoxo
bB