The weather was perfect and the company was too… there is just something fun about a group of people coming together for a common goal… Last year, my Jingle Bell 5k team had 3 people including me.. this year we were 22 members strong and I think everyone had fun.
We had WSLS 10 employees..including Natalie Faunce from Daytime Blue Ridge… friends from Smith Mountain Lake’s YMCA, Uttara Yoga Studio, Training Edge and more..
This year it looks like the event raised over ninety thousand dollars and we broke records with participation. More than seventeen hundred people signed up to take part and that doesn’t even count the dozens of people who came out for the first ever Jingle Bell Jam Zumbathon… which the ladies from Just Dance Roanoke were kind enough to organize.
We have already started planning for next year.. it will be our 22nd anniversary and a step closer to hopefully finding a cure to a debilitating condition that so many of us will one day have to deal with in some form.
Link to more information about the Virginia Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation.
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