Imagine This:

· Imagine walking 60 miles in 3 days.
· Imagine complete strangers: 2,800 women and 80 men walking 60 miles together for a cause.
· Imagine sleeping on the ground in tents in the rain & cold for 2 nights.
· Imagine shivering in your sleeping bag and then walking 20 miles the next day on 4 hours sleep.
· Imagine drinking gallons of Gatorade and water because, despite the cold and rain, as you walk you are sweating.
· Imagine wanting to quit 100 or 1,000 times, but continuing to walk anyway.
· Imagine just wanting your home, your bed, and your shower.
· Imagine $4.4 million that you and 2,880 other people raised, together.

Now imagine this:

· Imagine mothers, husbands, daughters, sisters, friends all walking together for a common cause.
· Imagine a young man walking in memory of his young wife.
· Imagine getting a foot rub from fellow walkers on day 2, mile 32.
· Imagine state police officers cheering you through intersections.
· Imagine Christian bikers escorting 2,880 walkers along the route and through intersections.
· Imagine truckers honking air horns every time they pass.
· Imagine hugs from strangers on street corners.
· Imagine survivors sitting on the side of the road thanking you for walking.
· Imagine a thousand new, clean port-a-potties.
· Imagine reading and learning about hundreds of strangers who died from breast cancer on the T-shirts of those walking ahead of you.
· Imagine the wonderful biker who cheered us on up EVERY hill with music blaring on his motorcycle.
· Imagine a Boy Scout Troop setting up almost 2,000 tents.
· Imagine the theme of the walk: Humankind. Be both.
· Imagine raising almost $5,000 with the help of wonderful people like you.
· Imagine saying “I can’t wait to do it again next year!“
· Imagine an end to breast cancer. It could happen with your help.

This was not imaginary. This was the Avon Breast Cancer 3 Day, Atlanta in 2001.


Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. - Doug Larson