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GAABC Upcoming Events - Celebrating Survivors Breakfast, Training Walks, Contest, and moreCOUNTDOWN TO THE 2025 2-DAY WALK FOR BREAST CANCER OCTOBER 4-5, 2025
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2020 Kick Off is going virtual! Join us on Zoom on Saturday, May 16 at 10:00 am from the comfort of your home!
We’ll be offering a brand new orientation itinerary addressing the changes coming to the 2020 Georgia 2-Day Walk for Breast Cancer. We’ll be discussing changes to fundraising goals, fundraising ideas re-imagined to work around coronavirus, training solutions in the age of social distancing, and more! You won’t want to miss it!
We will also be doing a Q&A with staff so that your questions are being answered in real time. After the program, we encourage everyone to head outside for a walk around the neighborhood to get some steps in to help you prepare for the 2020 Georgia 2-Day Walk for Breast Cancer!
To login to the meeting, click the url below, and enter the meeting info:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/96724282884?pwd=RDBVQXEvTHJiUEhZK25WcDJKaGcyQT09
Meeting ID: 967 2428 2884
Password: 738434
ITJ’s Pink Drink Social Club is back on Thursday, May 21st at 5:30 pm on Zoom! We’ll be mixing up custom cocktails and mocktails (recipe below), socializing, and talking about this month’s topic- “Fundraising During COVID-19.”
We’re going to be providing you with some tips & tricks, creative fundraising ideas, and more! Plus- you’ll get to hang with all your 2-Day friends! RSVP today!
Link to Join Zoom Meeting on May 21st:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81795442218…
Meeting ID: 817 9544 2218
Password: 160466
Strawberry Mojito Recipe:
½ Cup Strawberries
3-4 mint leaves (or cilantro/basil if you’re into that sort of thing)
Juice from half a lime
2 ounces light rum
Club Soda to fill
Garnish with a lime wedge
1 table spoon of simple syrup
Instructions:
Muddle strawberries in the bottom of the glass with your herbs, mix in your lime juice, simple syrup, and rum, fill glass with ice, and fill with club soda. Give it a quick stir and garnish it with a lime wedge.
To create a mocktail version, you can replace the rum with apple juice, or subtract the rum and club soda and use tonic water instead for the bite.
Our very first Adventure kicks off Friday, June 12, and ends on Thursday, June 25! A huge thank you to Green.Money for helping us make our first Adventure possible!
Our 7-part Adventure series is designed to inspire you- getting you out of the house to explore new paths, to recruit new 2-Day Walkers, and to raise even more money to fight breast cancer in Georgia!
For our first Adventure, we are challenging you to:
– Get back into 2-Day training mode! We want you to walk 20 miles between June 12- June 25! You can log your miles and share training tips, locations, etc. in our ITJ Staff Challenge Community on Fitbit (details on how to join below- you do NOT need a Fitbit to participate)! Take a picture while out training, email it to wjones@2daywalk.org, and you could be featured on our Instagram page!
Here’s how you can join us on the ITJ Staff Challenge Community on the Fitbit App:
– On the Fitbit app, open the “Community” tab
– Hit the “Add Friend” image (a plus sign with person symbol)
– Search username “WhitneyPack” or “JonMcMurdo” and add friend
– We will add you to the challenge!
Even if you don’t have a Fitbit, the app can work with other trackers or with your smartphone! Simply download the Fitbit app to your phone, and authorize the app to read your health statistics (just hit “accept” on everything when they ask for authorization).
– Help us recruit 100 rookies by July 10! This is a big challenge so it will be ongoing through our first 2 Adventures. We have recruited 33 rookies since Kick Off, so we’re a 1/3 of the way to our goal with one month to go!
CONTEST: If you recruit a rookie between now and the end of this first Adventure on June 25th, both you AND your rookie will be entered to win new Fitbits! Your rookie must list you as their reference in the “How did you hear about us” section of their 2-Day registration form. Every rookie you recruit is another entry into the contest! The winners will be announced live at 6:00 pm during our next Pink Drink Social Club on June 25th! Spread the word and get recruiting! Share this link to get your friends to sign up: https://gaabc.org/get-involved/
– Help us catch back up on fundraising. In order to get back on track, we need our 2-Day fundraising thermometer to reach $300,000 by July 10. This is a big task as we are currently at $136,895. But we can do it with your help! If all of our participants aim to raise $50/week for the next four weeks, we will blow our goal out of the water!
– Check out our Inspiration Locations for our Adventures! Our first Inspiration Location is Yellow River Park! Located near Stone Mountain, this forested riverside park is the perfect place to get your steps in! The park features a 1 mile, multi-use paved surface trail, plus a 12 mile soft surface trail that’s great for both mountain biking and hiking. A great feature of this park is that they offer separate bike trails, pedestrian trails, equestrian trails, and mixed use trails. The soft surface trail has an easy 3.2 mile out and back route that is fairly level, and perfect for walkers of all fitness levels. Just hike the riverside trail out and back. See details here. There are restrooms and picnic pavilions on site, so make a day of it!
Yellow River Park
3232 Juhan Rd.
Stone Mountain GA 30087
Need something closer to home? Check out the Big Creek Greenway in Alpharetta, one of our favorite training walk locations!
Let’s get recruiting, walking, and fundraising! Here’s to an awesome summer of 2-Day Walk Adventures!
Join us for our next Pink Drink Social Club on Thursday, June 25th at 6:00 pm! We’re going to be announcing the winners of our Rookie Recruitment Fitbit giveaway challenge, we’ll give you a sneak peak at this summer’s Adventure schedule, and we’ll be walking you through ways to turn our challenges into fundraising dollars for you and your team!
Drink recipe coming below!
Link for the Zoom call on June 25th:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86226086559?pwd=STRBNHNWQ1JYeTVmWkJ4ektjVDJjQT09
Meeting ID: 862 2608 6559
Password: 475285
This month’s drink recipe is brought to you by Ray Roberts!
Sparkling Sea Breeze
I cup ice cubes
1 ounce vodka (Tito’s is my favorite)
1 ounce cranberry juice
1 ounce grapefruit juice
2 ounces sparkling water
1 lime wedge for garnish
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice; add vodka, cranberry juice, and grapefruit juice. Cover and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted.
Pour sparkling water into a glass. Pour in vodka mixture. Garnish with a wedge of lime.
Our second Adventure kicks off Friday, June 26, and ends on Thursday, July 9! A huge thank you to Datadobi for helping us make this Adventure possible!
Our 7-part Adventure series is designed to inspire you- getting you out of the house to explore new paths, to recruit new 2-Day Walkers, and to raise even more money to fight breast cancer in Georgia!
For our second Adventure, we are challenging you to:
- Walk to Your Favorite Restaurant: If you live close enough to safely walk to a nearby restaurant that you love, turn it into an opportunity to get some steps in! We know that now, more than ever, some of your incredible 2-Day fundraising partners are in need of some extra support! Send us a pic of you out supporting your favorite restaurant, and you could be the next person featured on our Instagram page! Email those pictures to wjones@2daywalk.org.
- Contest: Earn Your Team a Mad Italian Pizza Party! Now is the time to reach out to past 2-Day participants who still need to register, to friends who have always promised you to walk, and to old team members who have moved! This challenge is open to teams of 5 or more. The team with the most new recruits (can be both rookie and returning participants) per team per capita during this time period will receive an old school pizza party at The Mad Italian! Contest runs Friday, June 26- Thursday, July 9. Good luck!!
- “Catch Up” Fundraising Goal: As a reminder, we are trying to get “caught up” on fundraising, and want our 2-Day fundraising thermometer to read $300,000 by July 10th! This is a big goal, but with a little teamwork, we can do it! If each participant raises $50 per week, we will smash our goal. Every dollar helps, so start small today by asking a friend for a $5 donation!
- Check Out an Inspiration Location! We have two great options for your Inspiration Locations this time! If you’re looking for a great place to explore in metro-Atlanta, we suggest heading over to the Noonday Creek Trail! This 8.5 mile, out and back multi-use trail has two disconnected sections, and runs through both Cherokee and Cobb counties. You can access the trail at any one of its end points, and it is good for walkers of all levels of fitness. Access the northern segment of the trail at Market & Elm Streets in Woodstock (parking available at Woofstock Dog Park, 150 Dupree Rd., Woodstock). Access the southern segment of the trail at Kennesaw National Battlefield Park (1201 Old 41 Highway NW, Kennesaw) or at 3001 Bells Ferry Road in Marietta.
Looking to get out of town for a stretch? How about heading to Savannah and checking out McQueen’s Island Trail! The 6 mile trail is built on an old railroad line, and runs parallel to the Savannah River, crossing through beautiful marshland! To reach the eastern trailhead, follow US 80 east toward Tybee Island. The trailhead entrance is about 15 miles east of Savannah; look for the sign for Fort Pulaski National Monument. Parking is available along the road or at the fort.
To reach the western trailhead, follow the directions above, but continue a few miles along US 80 to a small roadside parking area just before the turnoff for Fort Pulaski.
Trail commentary, mileage, photos, and other details sourced from traillink.com.
Our third Adventure kicks off Friday, July 10, and ends on Thursday, July 23! A huge thank you to Strike Out Breast Cancer for helping us make this Adventure possible!
Our 7-part Adventure series is designed to inspire you- getting you out of the house to explore new paths, to recruit new 2-Day Walkers, and to raise even more money to fight breast cancer in Georgia!
For our third Adventure, we are challenging you to:
- Walk 6,000 steps/day & wear 2-Day gear every time you train! We are challenging you to hit 6,000 steps per day! We know it’s hot out there, so break it up into sections if you need to, and above all, take care of yourself! We also want to see you out in your favorite ITJ or 2-Day gear! Send us a pic of you out sporting your 2-Day gear, and you could be the next person featured on our Instagram page! Email those pictures to wjones@2daywalk.org.
- Fundraising Goal- Ask 18 people to sponsor you! This is the 18th year of the Georgia 2-Day Walk for Breast Cancer. In honor of our anniversary, we’re challenging you to find 18 people to reach out to for a donation. Any amount, even $5, helps!
- Contest: Show us your most creative “2” design! This contest for individuals challenges you to get creative! We want to see you bake, grow, shape, design, sculpt, arrange, gather, etc. something into the shape of our 2-Day “2” image! Snap a pic and send it into wjones@2daywalk.org- most creative entry wins a 2-Day Swag pack including some of our new 2-Day Adventure products!
- Inspiration Locations- Amicalola Falls State Park & Mason Mill Park: For this Adventure, we have two great options to get you out of the house and moving! Check out stunning Amicalola Falls State Park! A short drive from the metro-Atlanta area in the North Georgia mountains, Amicalola Falls is the perfect day trip to get out of the house and enjoy a beautiful day out in nature. The park sits in the middle of the Chattahoochee National Forest near the base of the Appalachian Trail, and the 729 foot water falls will take your breath away. According to the park’s website, “One of the most popular trails, the 8-mile Approach Trail leads from the park to Springer Mountain, the southern terminus of the 2,193-mile Appalachian Trail.” There is a $5 GA State Park Pass fee for all vehicles entering the park. To learn more about the park, check out the website here.
Looking for something closer to home? Why not visit Mason Mill Park, and check out the South Peachtree Creek Trail?! This 3.6 mile roundtrip trail features beautiful scenery as you explore the raised boardwalk trails through Decatur’s beautiful canopy. Check out the abandoned Decatur Waterworks now styled with colorful graffiti along the way! For more information about Mason Mill Park, click here.
*Information about Mason Mill Park sourced from atlantatrails.com. Photo of Mason Mill Park sourced from atlantaonthecheap.com.
Our fourth Adventure kicks off Friday, July 24, and ends on Friday, August 7! A huge thank you to our sponsors for helping us make this Adventure possible!
Our 7-part Adventure series is designed to inspire you- getting you out of the house to explore new paths, to recruit new 2-Day Walkers, and to raise even more money to fight breast cancer in Georgia!
For our fourth Adventure, we are challenging you to:
Increase your daily steps to 8,000 steps/ show us your best imitation of the 2-Day Moto Crew! While you’re out getting your steps in, snap a selfie with your fitness tracker when you hit 8,000 steps and send it into Whitney at wjones@2daywalk.org for a chance to be featured on our Instagram page! Before you head out one day, throw on your wildest 2-Day outfit (think “Moto Crew”) and film a clip of you guys rocking out in the streets, just like they do at out intersections during the 2-Day Walk! Send videos to Whitney for another chance to be 2-Day Insta-famous!
Fundraising Goal- Ask friends and family to sponsor you $2 for every mile you walk or ride a bike! For this challenge, tap into your inner Bike Crew member and go for a ride! Not a bike person? No problem! Just share your daily mileage for this 2-week period with your friends and family, and let’s see just how many mammograms, counseling sessions, lymphedema garments, etc. we can fund during this Adventure!
Contest: “Walk for One” for a Chance to Win a 2 Night Stay at the Whistle Stop Inn in NC:
Have we got an AMAZING contest for you! $1200 is the approximate amount it takes our grantees to take a patient all the way through the breast cancer diagnostic process. If you “Walk for One” in 2020 and raise $1200 or more, you will be entered into a raffle to win a 2 night stay at a beautiful bed & breakfast in North Carolina! 2-Day Moto Crew members and proud B&B owners Gladys and Larry Pilarski have generously offered to donate a 2 night stay at the Whistle Stop Inn (a $308 value) for one lucky winner! Contest runs now through the end of our 2020 Georgia 2-Day Walk for Breast Cancer Experience (Sunday, October 4th), so you have plenty of time to fundraise. Good luck!!
Inspiration Locations: Vickery Creek Trail & Providence Canyon State Park: For this Adventure, we have two new great options to get you out of the house and moving! First up: Vickery Creek Trail at Roswell Mill! According to Atlantatrails.com, you can “Hike the Vickery Creek trail network at Roswell Mill to two historic mills, a covered bridge, and a spillway waterfall in Atlanta’s Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area.” This is a 4.7 mile roundtrip, moderate hike. Parking can be found at:
95 Mill Street
Roswell, GA, 30075
Looking for a bit more Adventure?! Check out Providence Canyon State Park! Known as “Georgia’s Little Grand Canyon,” the park features over 10 miles of hiking trails of all levels of difficulty. We recommend checking out the 2.5 mile Canyon Loop Trail. This easy-moderate level trail take about two hours, but the park recommends planning for for more time to explore. Parking is $5. For more information about this trail, or other things to see and do at Providence Canyon State Park, click here.
Join us on Saturday, August 8th for Kick Off 2.0! Team Captains are invited to join us for a important rally at 10:00 am, and all 2-Day participants will be welcomed into the meeting at 10:15 am.
We’ll be walking you through the launch of MoveSpring (the platform we’ll be using for our final 3 Adventures and for the 2-Day Walk Experience), telling you some digital fundraising opportunities, and giving you an update on the state of the ITJ union. Don’t miss it! Hope to see you there!
Join Zoom Meeting on August 8th:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88251934071?pwd=SkdnYk9OY3VxYkxzbCs0K3JtdTdZZz09
Meeting ID: 882 5193 4071
Passcode: 100501
Georgia 2-Day Walk Adventures move into the MoveSpring App for Adventure #5! This is the App we will be using for our final three Adventures this summer, as well as for the 2020 Georgia 2-Day Walk for Breast Cancer Experience! Registered 2020 participants can click here to learn how to sign in to MoveSpring!
Activity Challenge: The Streak challenge pushes you to get at least 30 minutes of activity each day during Adventure #5 in MoveSpring. Try walking in the mornings or evenings when it’s a little cooler to get your steps in each day! Don’t forget to send in pics when you hit your goal to wjones@2daywalk.org!
Fundraising Challenge: Did you know that in 2019, grants from It’s The Journey served Georgians in 102 counties?! Isn’t it awesome to see how far your fundraising dollars can go? We’re challenging you to raise $1 for every county covered by ITJ grants during the next two weeks! Who can raise $102 to serve Georgians in need of breast health care?
Contest: MoveSpring offers lots of ways to get involved and participate with your fellow walkers. You’ll be able to compete on our leaderboard, try and meet the daily streak challenge, receive messages of support from our sponsors, and interact with your fellow walkers in the chat feature! The most engaged user on MoveSpring during Adventure #5 will get the opportunity to announce the countdown to Closing Ceremonies for the 2020 2-Day Walk Experience!
Inspiration Locations- PATH400 Greenway & Flat Creek Nature Area: Looking to for a new place to get some steps in? Check out the PATH400 Greenway! According to their website, “PATH400 runs along the spine of GA 400 and, once complete, will provide a 5.2-mile greenway through the heart of Buckhead.” For access points and parking, check out the website here.
Looking for a day trip? Check out the Flat Creek Nature Area in Peachtree City! A beautiful preserve, the 3 mile roundtrip boardwalk path takes you through the marsh to explore all of the area’s natural beauty. Parking is located at 192 McIntosh Trail, Peachtree City, GA 30269. Click here for more information.
*Flat Creek Image courtesy cityseeker.com
Join It’s The Journey and Georgia CORE on Wednesday, August 26 at noon for Straight Talk: Breast Cancer Research Highlights and Hopes. This live discussion will highlight the work of several breast cancer researchers working on projects funded by ITJ and Georgia CORE. Check it out! http://tinyurl.com/straighttalkpanel2020
