About the Team
- A team of 24 women from the Capital Region and beyond who call themselves the “Fit Tech Chicks” have been training for months to participate in the 60-mile Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk in Boston on August 3 -5 to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer programs.
- These women, many of whom work at MicroKnowledge Inc., are dedicating hours of time each week to training and raising funds to support this annual event.
This year, more than 200,000 women and men will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and more than 40,000 will lose their lives to the disease. The Fit Tech Chicks want to help raise funds to be used to decrease those numbers. And their goal is to raise $50,000, no small feat for a group of women new to fundraising.
A smaller group of women created the idea of the Fit Tech Chicks (while walking the Freihofer’s Walk last spring in the pouring rain) as a means of meeting their personal health goals and knowing several women who have died or recovered from breast cancer. They also saw it as a way to bond closer as women in supporting each other moving forward in their lives.
Team leader Kathleen Pingelski said the women are participating because they want to make a personal difference in the fight against breast cancer. Several of members of the team have been personally affected by the disease, having either close friends or family members who have battled and sometimes succumbed to breast cancer.