“I just want to tell you that the Ramblin Rose’ triathlon changes lives.” Mary Evelyn Rowens, 35 Account Manager - Mint Hill, N.C. It truly is a perfect place for someone who thinks of triathlons as only for the elite athlete to realize that the everyday mom
From left to right, Cassandra (Greene) Hanslip, Rachelle Flowers, and Lavonda Freeman. “It has caused me to look at some dreams that I deferred and pick them back up again and get after them with the same drive and determination!” Rachelle Flowers, 39 Air Force Veteran, Stay-at-Home
From left to right, first row: Amy Wiley, Anita Goodwin, Tracey Reynolds Second row: Kainne Dokubo, LaVica Edwards, Judi Winbush, Charlotte Robinson Third row: Mary Joy Iheanacho, Katrina Simon-Agolory, Karen McClerkin, Jacqueline Flowers, Valerie Hepburn, Valerie Hepburn’s friend. Katrina Simon-Agolory, 36 Managing Consultant - Stone Mountain, Ga. Captain -
By Hope Childress My trusty dictionary defines the word extraordinary as “going beyond what is usual, regular, or customary.” I have never thought of myself as extraordinary, nor is my story. It is much like anyone else’s, but it is my story, and it goes well beyond my
By Jennifer Kirby The stroke Terri Murphy had in October 2007 came as a shock. She was only 44, with no family history and, as far as she knew, no symptoms, although in retrospect the migraines she’d started getting as an adult and the distinctive fluttery, anxious feeling
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Photo by Beatrice Yaxley of Tamara Lackey Photography On the Cover... Eishia Nicole Chisholm is a 32-year-old business analyst from Mint Hill, N.C., who says the Ramblin’ Rose Women’s Triathlon helped her get back into shape after having her daughter, Kendall. Chisholm credits her husband, Xzavier, as her
By Gwen Romeo Purpose. This is what gets most people out of the bed in the morning; it is what keeps them moving toward their goals. Everyone wonders what impression they will leave on the world, what their impact will be. For the people who join Team In
Cancer has not touched the life of Melissa Morrow and her family directly, but it has touched the life of her friend Caroline Phelps – not once, but twice – and that’s something that Melissa stands to do something about. During Phelps’ first occurrence of breast cancer, Morrow organized
5k to 50k in 12 Months “Being told you have cancer is hard,” says Shane Miles, who was diagnosed with tonsil cancer at the age of 38. “The surgeries were hard. Radiation treatment was hard. There really was nothing about having cancer that was not hard.” Going