I've always been a walker, but I never thought when one my colleagues approached me 7 years ago about doing the Avon Breast Cancer Walk - 20 miles a day for 3 days - that there was even the remotest chance I would participate. Not only did it seem daunting to contemplate that distance, but you had to raise almost $2000 to do the walk (or pay it yourself). But, then I started thinking about all the women in my family - my mom, my sister, my first cousins, the mothers of my two daughter-in-laws - who had suffered with this disease, and I decided I needed to at least try. And, so I registered. I had no idea what I was getting myself into.