>> IT WAS RIGHT BEFORE CHEMO, TWO DAYS BEFORE CHEMO I DID MY FIRST RACE FOR THE CURE.

AND IT WAS AMAZING.

BECAUSE YOU GO AND YOU SEE ALL THOSE PINK HATS AND YOU SEE ALL THOSE PINK SHIRTS OF SURVIVORS, AND YOU KNOW IT'S POSSIBLE.

AND I WENT TO WASHINGTON, DC AND DID THE NATIONAL RACE FOR THE CURE.

AND I DID MY FIRST THREE-DAY BREAST CANCER WALK IN BOSTON.

AND IN YEAR FIVE I DID ANOTHER THREE-DAY BREAST CANCER WALK, I DID A MARATHON, AND I DID A HALF MARATHON.

BECAUSE I WANTED TO DO THINGS THAT WERE ON MY BUCKET LIST, AND I HADN'T GOTTEN AROUND TO YET.

I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT I WAS GOING TO DO FOR THIS 15-YEAR CELEBRATION.

SO WHEN IT CAME OUT THAT -- I SAW THERE WAS A TWO-DAY, 15-MILE EACH DAY RUN.

AND I THOUGHT, THAT WOULD BE PERFECT.

I DID MY OTHER CELEBRATORY RUNS AND WALKS, IT WAS ALWAYS AS A CONTINUED RAISER -- FUND-RAISER.

I'M A GROWER AT A FARM STAND, AND WE SELL PUMPKINS AS PART OF OUR PRODUCE.

SOMEWHERE OUT OF THE BLUE I SAW AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR PINK PUMPKINS.

AND THE PROCEEDS WOULD GO TO THE NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION.

THE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION STATES THAT YOU NEED TO GIVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONEY PER PUMPKIN.

WE GAVE 100%.

THE DOGS TAKE YEAR-ROUND MAINTENANCE.

WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY RUNNING AND WORKING ALL YEAR.

BUT THEY STILL NEED TO BE CARED FOR.

AND SO WHEN IT GETS COOL ENOUGH, WE'RE TRAINING AND YOU HAVE TO START OUT SLOW.

AS IT GETS COLDER, OUR TIME GETS LONGER AND LONGER, SO WHEN YOU GET ON A SLED, THEY'RE DEFINITELY READY TO GO.

THIS YEAR WE KNEW WE HAD THIS RACE COMING UP IN MARCH.

TRAINING HAD TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE FOCUSED.

SO ONCE THE SNOW HITS, AND WE'RE ABLE TO BE ON SLEDS, CONSISTENTLY, WE'RE OUT AS MUCH AS WE POSSIBLY CAN.

TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE FUN RUN, I WAS A MESS.

THERE WAS A LOT OF UNKNOWNS.

UP UNTIL THE TIME WE LET GO OF THE -- I WAS A WRECK.

BUT ONCE WE LET GO OF THAT SNOW HOOK, WE MADE IT AROUND THE FIRST CORNER, WE DIDN'T RUN INTO THE POST THAT WE HAD, IT WAS GREAT.

THE DOGS DIDN'T GET UPSET IF I SLOWED THEM DOWN GOING DOWNHILL, AROUND CORNERS.

I KNEW DAY ONE I COULDN'T CRY YET.

I WANTED TO.

IT WAS AWESOME.

IT WAS JUST SO INCREDIBLE.

I COULDN'T WAIT, REALLY, TO GO OUT AND DO IT AGAIN.

THE COURSE WAS AMAZING.

THE PEOPLE WERE AMAZING, THE DOGS WERE AMAZING.

AND WE DID IT.

SO STARTING ON DAY TWO, I GUESS I STILL HAD THE NERVES, BECAUSE I KNEW WHAT THE COURSE LOOKED LIKE.

AND I KNEW WHERE OUR TROUBLE SPOTS WOULD BE.

BUT AGAIN, ONCE WE LET GO OF THE SNOW HOOK AND OFF WE WENT, IT WAS GREAT.

ONCE YOU GET STARTED, THERE'S NO TURNING BACK ANYWAY.

YOU'RE JUST OUT THERE.

THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.

IT'S JUST OUT THERE HAVING A GREAT TIME, AND THEY'RE HAVING A GREAT TIME.

WHEN WE GOT TO THE END, I WASN'T CELEBRATING THE FACT IT WAS 15 YEARS OF SURVIVAL, I WAS CELEBRATING THE FACTS THAT WE FINISHED IT AND WE DID AN AWESOME JOB, AND WE HAD FUN, AND THE DOGS WERE ALL HEALTHY.

SO I'VE CELEBRATED AT ONE, AND FIVE, AND 10, AND 15.

BUT YOU -- I CELEBRATE, I'VE GOT A GREAT HUSBAND, I CELEBRATE THE FACT THAT I'VE GOTTEN TO SEE MY BOYS GROW UP TO YOUNG MEN, AND SO THE THE DOG MUSHING WILL CONTINUE, AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.

AND THE CELEBRATIONS WILL