Mentor Jennifer Ibarra took this photo today before all the participants arrived for the Kick-off. Here you see three rookies and a veteran mentors. (Rookie James, rookie me, veteran Debra, and rookie Jesi.)Here's a photo of me and Honoree Keith. In the photo below has Mentors Ilya, Raj, Robin, and Jennifer. This is just a small portion of 21 mentors!
We were all hanging out and placing our info and grab bags for our mentees on our assigned seats.
Slowly but surely participants walked in. I met most of my mentees today: Brandy, Sparsha, Stephanie, Mike, Katie, and Nicole! Unfortunately I did not have enough time to take photos of all my mentees.
Honoree Keith was the guest speaker today and was quite inspiring talking about the type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma he was diagnosed with early last year, chemotherapy, becoming an Honoree for Team In Training and his current role not only as an Honoree but as a participant! Keith is training and raising funds for two full marathons-Kauai in September and SF Nike in October! Keith is uber amazing and I will try to keep up with him this season.
After hearing Keith and our coaches talk we headed down to the fund-raising faire where Jen, Robin and I had a bake sale table. I had a plate of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies from my "cookies in a jar" recipe, Jen brought her home baked banana bread and my famously delicious oatmeal cookies (she bought the cookie dough from me), and Robin brought store bought cookies. (It's ok, we still love you Robin!)
Click on the slideshow above to view the few photos I managed to snap!
3 comments:
sounds like a great day for a worthy cause. thanks for all that you do!
For some reason, the link to your donation website seems to be broken. I can't get there. Ronda
Thanks for letting me know Ronda! It's fixed now. Here's the site if you want to copy and paste it.
http://pages.teamintraining.org/sj/nikesf09/ghuynh
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