Staying Motivated

by Jill Jones

For our “Survivors” team, staying motivated is one of our strengths. We have many people on our team that are energetic and motivated people to begin with. Our team captain, Heidi, sends us many emails and has a Facebook page just for our team to communicate. She keeps that energy flowing and keeps us all organized. 

We have team apparel that we can choose to buy that Heidi organizes for us. Each day we decide what to wear and then we all look similar, which can be a lot of fun. Many of us like to wear crazy socks and we bring all of the orange we can and have fun getting ready each day. 

Throughout the walk our team has a lot of fun supporting each other. You might hear us start cheers or singing along the way. We like to hum songs and then have our teammates guess what song it is. At each mile marker, our team takes a picture with whoever happens to be by the person with the camera. 

Challenge Walk MS, for everyone who takes the time to fundraise and participate, is motivation enough: WE ALL WANT TO FIND A CURE FOR MS!