The team’s first race is on October 9th in Barstow, CA. It’s the Powder Puff race, all women drivers, and the proceeds go to the Cedars Sinai hospital for breast cancer research. It’s a very exciting race, but even more exciting for me because October will be one year since I put together the idea of Team Courage, and to be able to put together a truck and a team within a year and make it to our first race is amazing. I’ve had lots of great help from wonderful people, without a doubt, and it’s so exciting to see this dream come true so quickly.

I have added a DONATE page to the top of this website. Right now we are on a fund drive for the Powder Puff. Our goal is to raise $2500, which will allow us to donate to Cedars Sinai, and even more exciting, pay for 10 mammograms for women that don’t qualify for other funding such as Komen and other breast cancer organizations. There are still women getting turned away from the testing they need, and those are the women we’re trying so hard to help.

Every donation, even $5, helps so much. I know that not everyone can donate, and I understand how hard times are for everyone. If there is anything at all that you can do to help us help others it would be appreciated from the bottom of my heart. We don’t want to just show up at the Powder Puff, we want to be able to make a big difference to other women from our very first event.

Thank you so much for your thoughts and support as we get closer to this monumental day.

So here are my photos, I hope you don’t envy me too much because of the beautiful scenery! Aspen is a glorious place, it was a joy to attend an event there.

Thank you ladies all so much for letting me walk for you. You make this world a better place.

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This Saturday I will be taking place in the Race for the Cure in Aspen. I want to make sure all of my Courage Friends are with me. I have a lot of followers to this blog that don’t post, but please this time post your name and if you are a survivor or previvor.  I will have a “In Celebration Of” sign for everyone’s name. I’m also asking the same thing on all of my Facebook pages, so you can also post there. I want to make sure you are all celebrated and along with me in spirit! I’m hoping to have an amazing amount of names so that our cause gets noticed and we can really make a difference to women that can’t afford the testing they need.

Will you be there with me??

I did make the first flight out of Denver, but flights were cancelled in Salt Lake City (my connection) and I may be stuck here for awhile. I was the 35th person waiting to get on the flight that just left, 34 people made it. I’m now the 8th person waiting for 4 seats. After this flight, the rest of the flights for the day are overbooked and I may be spending another night sleeping on the floor in the airport. Not a lot of fun, but I just couldn’t swing the cost of a ticket to get to the party, so this is my best shot. But I’d rather be sleeping on the floor at the gate than stuck behind smelly people in a plane. Why do so many people get on their flights without showering recently? And why am I always behind them?? Of course, the universe is listening and now I’m sure to have to spend a second night sleeping in the airport, making ME one of those smelly people! Sigh. It figures!

Before leaving yesterday I had a great chat with my friend and future Team Courage driver, Betsy. She was giving me the scoop on the adventures from last weekend’s Baja 500 race. She told me that our friend and Baja legend Larry Roeseler offered her a ride in their pre-runner trophy truck (which, as you may know, I have a huge thing for trophy trucks). She wasn’t able to accept the offer at the time, but today I promptly sent Larry a text message letting him know he broke my fragile heart. It’s all fun and games, I will love Larry and Betsy no matter what, but still! I hope to see them both this weekend at the party, and plan on giving them plenty of greif. One day I’ll get inside a trophy truck!

So, that’s all I’ve got at the moment. They are starting to board the next flight, so I should go and pay attention. Wish me luck, and I’ll update you soon!