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[paula2930]

Salutations! I'm new to the boards and would like to join a WISH Team please.

I saw a WISH Team shirt on Sunday at the RiteAid Cleveland Marathon were I completed a 10k walk in 1.33.25 (I came in 75th overall and took 10th in my division). The wonderful woman I met (sorry, I didn't get her name) told me to check the boards to see how to get involved and place an order for shirts.

I am a postop bariatric patient and am participating on a relay team comprised of all bariatric patients planning on doing the 2008 RoadRunner Akron Marathon!!

Any information would be appreciated!!

Paula "Wog On!"

 

[Raenstoirm]

The shirts and teams are found in the events sub thread on this board.

 

[ohMom]

to WISH!!

as raenstorm mentioned there is a sub-forum found at the top of the main WISH board for Events/Competition where you'll find a very chatty bunch of WISH team members it is a fantastic group!

also, feel free to join in on any of the threads on WISH, or start your own group if you don't find one that suits you.


i'm getting a feeling you live in Northern Ohio i'm in central ohio and an addicted to organized events, mostly half-marathon or John Bingham events. waddle on!

 

[deekaypee]

Paula,

That was ME you met! I'm SO glad you're here. I'm so sorry I wasn't as coherent as I like to be--you saw me right after I finished, and my thoughts were "food, drink, blisters, food, drink...." Anyway, welcome to WISH. Wow, you are smoking fast! Great job on your 10K.

If you go over to the Events/Competition forum, you'll be able to find the link to joining a team. You'll probably want to start with the Welcome to Wish sticky: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1831900. The sticky contains lots of information to our various threads. It will give you information on what WISH is and its history, how to join the general WISH gang (try our weekly thread as the place to introduce yourself), and how to join our minutes/miles challenge made up of smaller teams. You'll also find a walkers thread, where we have some fantastic people doing all sorts of distances from 5Ks to marathons. I'm in awe of them.

And like OhMom said, we WISHers, in whatever forums or threads we hang out on, are very friendly. I hope you, and maybe members of your bariatric group, find a home here. I think your knowledge/input/insights would be valuable to many of us.