What is Relay for Life?

I have copied this from the Relay for Life homepage, so you can find out what Relay for Life means:

"Relay For Life is the American Cancer Society’s signature activity. It offers everyone in a community an opportunity to participate in the fight against cancer. Teams of people camp out at a local high school, park, or fairground and take turns walking or running around a track or path. Each team is asked to have a representative on the track at all times during the event. Relays are an overnight event, up to 24 hours in length.

Teams of people from all walks of life have fun while raising much-needed funds to fight cancer and raise awareness of cancer prevention and treatment.

Relay For Life is a life-changing event that brings together more than 3.5 million people to:
• Celebrate the lives of those who have battled cancer. The strength of survivors inspires others to continue to fight.


• Remember loved ones lost to the disease. At Relay, people who have walked alongside people battling cancer can grieve and find healing.


• Fight Back. We Relay because we have been touched by cancer and desperately want to put an end to the disease.

There is not a required amount of money to raise in order to participate in Relay For Life.  The American Cancer Society's recommendation is for each participant to set a personal goal to raise $100.  If you raise more, that's even better.  If you do not raise $100, you are still welcome to participate.  We're glad to have you.  The only requirement to participate in Relay For Life is the $10 registration/commitment fee that is due upon registration.   After that, anything you can raise through individual, team, or online fundraising is graciously accepted."

Relay for Life

This Saturday to Sunday was the Relay for Life in Lincoln. Relay for life means you walk 24h and raise money for the American Cancer Society. It started in Saturday at 9am and ends on Sunday at 9am. It took place on the football field of our high school. It was about 100 degrees and the whole day sunshine, but on the field it could get about 120 degrees. It was crazy. I walked about an hour and a half, but then I went home, because it was too hot for me. I came back in the evening to see the luminaries, which were place around the field and on the stage and they wrote the word "Remember". After this I went home, because I was too tired to stand all night long. It was a fun event.

Subsection

The last two days we had the PVL tennis subsection. On Thursday was only subsection for the two boys and girls single players. Because our number one boy was sick, I had to play number one instead of number two. But I didn't make it to the second round,  I lost my match 1:6 1:6. I did pretty good, but it wasn't enough. No one of our four single players made it to section. On the following day it was double subsection and this day everyone from our team played really well. All six double teams (2 girls, 2 boys and 2 mixed teams) made it to the second round. My partner and me won the first match 6:2, 5:7, 10:7 (super tie break) and in the second round we won our match 6:2, 6:4 so we made it to the semi finals. If we had won our next match, we would have make it to the final and section next week, but we lost 3:6, 2:6, but we played really well this day. Only our mixed double made it to the final round and they are going to section next week. But they lost their finals. All in all the second day was more successful for our team, because everyone won at least one match.