The LIVESTRONG.COM Blog

Don’t miss TIME’s feature on inspirational cancer survivors. Great press for our friends at the LAF, and truly motivating stories, too.

Chris Brewer from the Lance Armstrong Foundation has a great post up about the day the LAF learned of Lance’s return to competitive cycling.
 

And with that, Lance quickly said, “Yes, I am coming back to the sport of professional cycling and intend to win the Tour de France.” To say there was an audible hush in the room would be an understatement. But then Lance went on to detail that this was not a decision made in a vacuum. He had consulted his closest advisors, friends, and ultimately his children and their mother, and all had responded unequivocally with a hearty, “YES!” And so it begins…

On August 31st, 2008, you can make history by participating in a 10k race like no other: The Nike+ Human Race. The run will be hosted in 25 separate cities, or you can run anywhere at all using Nike+. The run will benefit three different charities, one of which is the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

There are two ways to run the race:

1. Join fellow runners in one of 25 cities hosting the 10k races worldwide.

2. Run anywhere you are using your Nike+, and then just sync your run by the end of the day.

Signing up is easy. Visit nikeplus.com to register in your city of choice. Can’t find a city to race in? No worries — no matter your location, with your Nike+ Sport Kit or Nike+ SportBand, you can register, track your miles and then sync your race at nikeplus.com, the official destination for the Nike+ Human Race.

Nike hopes to get one million runners involved, to celebrate running and benefit some great causes: The Lance Armstrong Foundation, The UN Refugee Agency, and the World Wildlife Fund. Every mile you run on race day will help decide how much is donated to each charity; you can pick which one you’d like to benefit! Learn more at nikeplus.com.

To make things even more interesting, we’re raffling away 8 Nike+ SportBands (LIVESTRONG edition) — that’s the device that tracks how far you’ve run, and the calories you’ve burned with a chip in your shoe.

There are two ways to qualify:

1. Take the Nike+ Human Race 10k Dare
2. Join the Group

If you do both, you get two entries!

Each of the next four Fridays — 8/8, 8/15, 8/22, and 8/29 — we’ll pick two winners, both of whom will receive both the SportBand and a Human Race t-shirt.

So, get ready to run, win, and help make the world a better place!

You can read the official contest rules here.