| Greetings
from Cancer Survivor Center!
As we
approach mid-March here in Aspen and the end of the ski season
is just four weeks away, we cannot help but let our minds
wander to spring trips to Moab, the beach and that long awaited
feeling of the warm sun on our winter white bodies! Are you
ready? Would you like to be in better shape going into the
active summer season? Would you like to set some new fitness
goals for summer? A bike trip? A mini-triathalon? Hiking a
peak you never imagined you could summit? Let us help you
plan for these goals and for the always too short summer season!
We would
like to share some exciting new developments going on at CSC:
Dawn
Shepard and Kathleen Callahan have come up with a wonderful
program to get female cancer survivors moving (without the
pressure of a structured fitness program). The Million Steps
Program is a walking incentive program designed to allow women
to get moving on their own and in twice monthly group activities.
The number of steps taken is recorded and the participant
also gets “credit” for other activities that will
not register on a pedometer. When each woman reaches certain
step milestones they will get wonderful rewards and incentives
to keep on reaching towards a million steps. We hope to develop
and expand this program across the country and get cancer
survivors on their way to becoming “millionaires”!
Contact our office if you or anyone you know might be interested
in this new, exciting program.
Riggs
Klika, our program director, has been hard at work planning
for the Cancer Survivorship Symposium to be held at the Given
Institute on August 17, 2007. Part of our CSC mission is community
outreach and we are so excited to be able to provide this
symposium to anyone interested in attending (free of charge).
We have confirmed three experts in issues of survivorship
and expect to have a couple more. We’ll fill you in
details over the next few months. Please mark your calendars….
This will be an event not to miss for anyone whose lives have
been impacted by cancer (directly or indirectly)!
Best
wishes from the staff at the Cancer Survivor Center!
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