The moon walk

It's here my welcome package for this weekend charity walk, "The Moon Walk". The walk will take place in New York city. Walkers can do either a half marathon (13.1 miles) or a full marathon (26.2 miles) walk. The walk starts and finishes at Randall's Island and covers mid town and lower Manhattan, it depends on if the walker choose the half or full marathon.

The money that is raised through the Walk the Walk America will be used towards grants that will fund Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, which helps to support their Breast Examination Center in Harlem. Where over 80 % of the patients do not have insurance.

This walk is unique in many ways first it takes place at night, the millage, and what really sets it a part is that all participants must walk in a decorated bra and no shirt over or underneath it. I think that is awesome. Even the men that participate wear bras too. I think it is a great way to support (no pun intended) the cause.

From Walk the Walk Website 

Walk the Walk came into being 17 years ago when just a handful of women Power Walked the New York City Marathon in their bras to raise money and awareness for breast cancer. What started out as a one-off fundraising event blossomed into a thriving multi-million dollar charity, raising to date over $126M for vital breast cancer causes.

The story all started with Nina Barough, who is the founder of Walk the Walk. In 1996, Nina was running her own production company in London and woke up one morning with a crazy idea that it would be “fun” to Power Walk the New York City Marathon in a decorated bra to raise money for a good cause. At that time Nina had no experience with fundraising or taking part in a marathon nor did she know anyone who had been affected by breast cancer.

She convinced 13 women to join her and after much training and fundraising, this small, brave group took to the streets of New York in their bras. In truth, they may have just signed on for a fun weekend in New York, but the team raised over $40,000, which they donated to Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research UK to help build the first dedicated center for breast cancer research.

Word soon got around and people started to call Nina asking if they could join her next walking challenge. Due to her work commitments it was doubtful if that would happen, but then fate intervened.