Coach Jeanne DeMartino - RxExercise Ambassador to Kauai Marathon & Half Marathon 2009

Just today, February 21, I passed an important breast cancer milestone: 6 years cancer clear, and finally completely free of all cancer drugs! Whew! Hooray!

I've been "Living Well Beyond Cancer" because of my regular RxExercise, race walking, indoor rowing, and strength training. I want to help others to get the same irreplaceable benefits of RxExercise.

My next big goal is to racewalk the 1st Annual Kauai Half Marathon on Sept 6, 2009, as a Team Member of another Charities Challenge RxExercise Ambassador Team, this time to my favorite Hawaiian island, Kauai.

I imagine racewalking in the beautiful "Garden Isle" as a real life expression, step by step, of how I feel like I've passed beyond a life as a cancer patient to a whole new, happier-healthier life, because of all the steps I've been taking to stay alive, alive and strong especially for my kids, grandkids.

Until my cancer challenge 6 years ago, I coached and happily traveled with hundreds of others to Hawaii Marathons 12 times! Hawaii was my favorite place to which I could ever travel with fellow athletes, all of whom I served as "Coach Jeanne".

Now, I hope to return to Hawaii with a new RxExercise Ambassador Team and introduce others to both better health/fitness, to the inspiring camaraderie of CC Team Membership, and to the loveliest place and people in Hawaii.

As a Charities Challenge Coach & RxExercise Ambassador, I want to help bring Charities Challenge RxExercise services, programs and events to others including especially those living with a variety of health challenges.

I have better met my own chronic disease challenges, congenital degenerative joint disease in my back, osteoarthritis, and breast cancer, because of my regular RxExercise habits of racewalking and rowing, and want to help others to discover the same Power of RxExercise to greatly improve one's quality of life despite chronic, sometimes incurable, diseases.

Charities Challenge Leaders and Members have been "by my side" throughout my last 6 years of a happy, strong comeback from cancer.

Every day that I walk with my CC Team Mates is a happier, healthier day for me, and for them.

Please join me in "Taking the RxExercise Challenge" and contribute what you can in support of my RxExercise Ambassadorship, my conintuing comeback from arthritis and cancer, and Charities Challenge's daily benefits to all exercisers and especially challenged athletes.

Thank You!

Charities Challenge Mission: To improve health and fitness, reduce health risks, and enhance disease management through goal-oriented Rx Exercise training programs, events, services and partnerships.