Pink Ink: A Ribbon Tattoo in Memory of Tana

I met Susan and her friend Joan on the first day of the 2013 Seattle 3-Day, as I was riding alongside some walkers nearing the 20-mile mark. I thought I could see the outline of a pink ribbon tattoo between Susan’s shoulder blades, but there wasn’t one. She did, however, have a pink ribbon on […]

Pink Ink: Her Horse Carried Her Through Recovery

Patti and I met on this year’s Seattle 3-Day Route Safety crew as fellow bicyclists. It was her first year on crew, but her second 3-Day… she walked in Seattle last year, just nine months after her breast cancer diagnosis. In the months following her diagnosis, Patti learned she carries the BRCA1 gene mutation, had surgery […]

Pink Ink: Love With No Regrets

The story behind Amanda’s pink ribbon tattoo still makes me a little weepy, more than two weeks after I met her at the 2013 Seattle 3-Day. Amanda walked her first 3-Day in 2009, and passed a trio of four year-old girls holding the sign: “Live with no excuses, love with no regrets.” The girls were […]

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