Today is the last day to sign up your team for our Barbells for Boobs event and be guaranteed a t-shirt. You can still sign up after today, and shirts will also be on sale at the event.
In previous years, I don’t think I’ve had to announce that deadline via so many platforms and so many times in the past week, but this year, as far as I know, the sign-ups so far have been lackluster, and I understand why – the event for the first time is not at our gym, we’re partnering with Fairwinds CrossFit for our fundraising and our workout event, so it seems a bit different, maybe you don’t feel as attached. It’s also a little bit earlier than our usual Halloween-timed event, mainly to stay away from the timing of the ESAC which is happening on Oct 27th.
The reason for my reaching out again today is to remind you of the upcoming deadline (NOW!), but also to remind you or inform you for the first time why you should participate, why this is a big deal.
Barbells for Boobs is a great organization with a very worthwhile mission and a unique, if unfortunate name. Don’t pick your kids up from preschool with a BFB t-shirt on, is all I’m saying. Their mission is to give women who don’t have adequate insurance for a mammogram the right to know if they have breast cancer.
Breast cancer is something that has touched many of our lives. The reason Jason and Eric are so fired up about this is that their good friend Liz, a young woman in her 30’s, has been battling the disease. You can listen to her story on the Grounds After Rounds podcast, episode 16 (I couldn’t figure out how to link it here…) We can probably all think of a relative who has been affected — my mom was diagnosed several years ago, underwent treatment and then had a mastectomy. Breast cancer is a type of cancer, like many nowadays with our rapidly evolving technology, that is much more treatable the earlier that it is caught; but if someone does not have the financial resources to get checked out, they are in serious risk of a bad prognosis.
Barbells for Boobs’ website states that for every $120 that we raise, one person will have the right to know if she has breast cancer, and will also be provided with resources after diagnosis. $360 will give one breast cancer survivor the gift of fitness classes for 3 months, something that we all would agree is so crucial to our daily sanity and will help a cancer survivor rebound back to a fulfilled life.
If you’re available on Saturday, October 13th at 8am to attend our Barbells for Boobs event at Fairwinds CrossFit in Annapolis, but you’re not yet signed up, please do the following:
– If you want to be on a team but don’t have teammates, put your name on the signup sheet at the gym, or email ryan@crossfitkentisland.com and I will do it for you.
– If you have a team put together but aren’t registered yet, take the initiative to be the team leader. Text your teammates, Venmo request their portion of the registration ($30 each), and go to barbell-for-boobs-2018.myshopify.com to get your team on the books.
– If you don’t want to compete but want to hang out for the morning and have a good time, that’s awesome! We hope to see you there, and you can buy a t-shirt and/or make a donation onsite, or check out Fairwinds’ BFB fundraising page at https://www.barbellsforboobs.org/fundraisers/fairwindscrossfit
“Service to others is the rent we pay for our room here on Earth.”
Ryan
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