Relay For Life-San Ramon

Our company participated for Relay for Life this year and I am glad that I volunteered! What a great cause and it was well organized by many charities! There was a water station, entertainment, booths, prizes and food. For every lap you walked you collected a purple bead, for every mile you collect a white bead. Well we decided to go above and beyond and walk for a cause and ended up walking 7 miles that day for a great cause! I am so glad we had the chance to participate and will volunteer again in the very near future!

Nothing wrong with a little exercise and a little support to a great organization. Looking forward to the next few Relay For Life events happening in the area.
Thank you for all the people and companies who supported this event!

Okay, so I was having one of those weeks where it couldn’t have been worse. By the time Saturday rolled around, I admit, going to this event was the LAST thing I wanted to do.
But with a ‘loving’ push out of bed by my hubby, I was out the door, backpack and sunscreen in hand ready to go. :)
Met up with my team, and during the opening ceremonies, and cried through the whole thing. The stories and opening speeches were so moving, inspiring, and touching you couldn’t help but be moved. To see the survivors proudly wearing their purple survivor shirts, walking their opening survivor lap, you couldn’t help but clap, cheer, and be so proud and honored to be in their presence.
I walked/​ran several laps with my other team members and walking around and looking around everybody’s tents, banners, etc, I couldn’t help but genuinely feel like I was a part of something so much bigger. It is a 24 hour, overnite event (to represent that cancer never sleeps) but I could not do the overnite, due to prior plans. I will for sure, with my team be doing the whole event next year. I am so beyond glad that I did this event, I loved being a part of something so moving and it’s such a humbling, inspiring event!