Day 6: Cancer Patients

Woohoo! We have made it through day 6! We are a fourth of the way done with our entire trip! It's sad and exciting at the same time. Today we ran from Bicknell, Utah to Moab, Utah; we each ran another 12 miles (my total is 89 miles)

These are some of the pictures from today. I ran with Sam Tucker. We had a great time running together and once we got to Moab, Sam Amanda and I went to the aquatics center to relax and get water massages by the jets.

After dinner a group of us went down to a cafe to get some gelato and then Elizabeth and I played a game of pick up football at the park on the way back to the church we are staying at tonight. After the game, their family invited us to the Moab Diner for some ice cream! I was stuffed from my dinner and dessert but Elizabeth got two scoops and we sat and chatted with some of the kids. After ice cream we just came back to start blogging and get some rest.
Since tomorrow is our rest day, we get to sleep in! Yeah, that means 7am but still its way later than 430! I had hoped that we would get to go out to the arches tonight to see the stars but we didn't fit it in because we can't drive the vans unless we are 21 :/

Today's Run was dedicated to some patients that my Aunt told me about. 
One of the patients is an 8 year old girl that has leukemia. My Aunt told me that she is in and out of the hospital a lot. The second patient is a 20 year old woman that has cancer in her chin and temple. And lastly, Aunt Ena told me about a 29 year old man with a rare and aggressive osteocercoma.

I ran with these patients on my mind because there are the ones that I was told about. But I know there are many many more patients out there that are in need of our thoughts and prayers. Today was a day for me to think about all those affected by cancer and their families and friends. Running for patients I have never met different for me, since usually I blog about one specific person... But it allowed me to let in all those affected by cancer. It made me think of just how many lives have been altered due to the disease. As I have told many of you, there is one young adult diagnosed every 8 minutes! That's over 70,000 a year! And thats only ages 15-39. Can you even imagine the total count? 

Tomorrow will be a rest day for our team. We will be hiking out to the arches and hanging out in Moab, UT. I have dedicated tomorrow a little differently than most of my blogs thus far. And there will be lots of pictures!
Thanks for reading :) and thanks for our support!!