I stumbled across a sobering statistic a couple of weeks ago…520,000 women worldwide will die of breast cancer in the next year! After a few quick Google searches, I calculated that equates to roughly 24,000 women in the United States. As of 2010 (the last year that stats were available) slightly more than 50% of women are married. Guess what? That means there are roughly 1,000 new widowers every month in the United States, from breast cancer alone!

Enter Fit For A Widower. I’ve founded and launched Fit For A Widower to do three things:

1. Encourage widowers (and widows) to take up some form of endurance training as a positive, healthy means to living a fit, faithful and full life.

2. Provide encouragement from my own journey through grief. My faith and my training have been key components that have allowed me to not only survive these past two and half years, but start to live again, in spite of the loss that slaps me in the face countless times per day.

3. Create a community where widowers and widows can come together to train, to compete, to find encouragement and an understanding ear.

I’ve got big dreams, and it may take some time to get there, but if I’ve learned one thing in this journey through loss, its this: start now and go after your dreams. You never know how long you have.

I think that’s a good place to start. I think that’s fit for a widower to pursue! Follow me, here we go!