If you had asked me this morning when was the last time I set out to take a walk, I would have said “oh, I don’t know, but I’m sure it wasn’t that long ago”.

It was 2007 when we did the Alzheimer’s Memory Walk. TWO THOUSAND SEVEN was the last time I deliberately walked for a cause, people. That is just SHAMEFUL!  What prompted all of this was my learning about the BeeWell Miles site from Bumble Bee Foods (as in the canned tuna).  From April 1st 2009 to October 31st 2009, they will donate 15 cents for each mile that registered site participants walk, up to 1 Million Miles. When the registered miles reach 1 Million, Bumble Bee will add $50,000 to the donations to bring them to $200,000 total.

The money goes to Breast Cancer Network of Strength, an organization that provides emotional support as well as programs and services to people with breast cancer. If I were to walk one mile every day between now and October 31st, at 15 cents a mile, that would be almost 200 miles or almost $30 donated on my behalf to this important organization.

The BeeWell Miles website is sure doing everything it can to give people help in achieving their walking goals. You can interact with health advisors, find walking routes, training programs, track what you eat every day, and enter codes found on Bumble Bee tuna cans to win daily prizes. I used the mapping feature to plot a route that starts on the sidewalk in front of my house and ends up back at my house, it’s 1.06 miles. I have no excuse not to walk!

Besides, I don’t want this photo to be the newest photo of me walking for a cause:

Dang it, I need to GET WALKING! Please visit the Bumble Bee BeeWell Miles site to see how you can get walking and help raise money for Breast Cancer Network of Strength too.