Week four of Run 31, and seven more people to move for. Every story is now up – listen to any of them below.

Their stories air weekday mornings at 8:45 on KAFE 104.1. The full schedule is at KAFE.com, and every dedication also lands on our Feel Good Moment page.

Monday – Bev

Fifteen years. A wife, a mom to two young boys, and quiet about all of it – you would never have known she was sick, even after she lost her hair. She hated wigs, said they itched, so she wore hats and looked perfect in them.

Round after round of chemotherapy, a few cancer-free months at a time, and a doctor who told her not to worry for a single moment because he already had plan B, C, D and E lined up. He fought beside her until her body couldn’t anymore. Nominated by Michele, her former daughter-in-law – which tells you everything. Read Bev’s full story and hear her dedication ›

Tuesday – Michele

Michele was 46 when her doctor felt a small lump during a routine annual visit. Two previous mammograms had shown nothing but dense tissue. “Calling me dense! Rude!”

Her doctor said it was probably nothing – she was his healthiest patient, she’d just hiked Mount Kilimanjaro – but please get it checked. It was breast cancer. Caught at a very early stage, a tumor only 7mm across.

Lumpectomy, no chemo, four weeks of radiation, and five years on an estrogen blocker that she finished last December. No family history. No genetic markers. Her advice: get checked, follow your doctor’s recommendations, and advocate for yourself. Read Michele’s full story and hear her dedication ›

Wednesday – Paula

Paula nominated herself, and she earned it. Diagnosed in July 2024 with cancer that had three different names. First chemo infusion that September, last one in January. Immunotherapy every three weeks since.

On September 17 of this year, she was told she is cancer free. And on October 2, she walked into the cancer center with about twelve family members and friends and rang that bell three times.

“I kept the faith and am now cancer free. I am really CANCER FREE!”

Read Paula’s full story and hear her dedication ›

Thursday – Lynda

Lynda almost didn’t come on the air, because she thought her story was too small. Two cancer scares – one in her right breast, one in her left ovary – both caught early, both removed, neither needing heavy treatment. Next to the harder stories we’ve told this month, she wasn’t sure hers counted.

It counts. Stories like Lynda’s are the entire point of the campaign. Her daughters are the ones who talked her into sharing it.

And after losing an ovary, she went on to give birth to a baby boy. She says she’s grateful every single day that she’s still here to watch her children, and now her grandchildren, grow up. Read Lynda’s full story and hear her dedication ›

Friday – Deb

Deb tells it in four sentences: routine exam, caught it early, surgery, radiation, and the estrogen blockers she’ll happily tell you she dreaded. That’s what it sounds like when the system works.

But she was nominated for what came after. On the air at KISM, Deb talked openly about her own mammogram, her own colonoscopy, all of it – and made the scary stuff sound ordinary for everybody listening.

“She made it less scary and more normal. She never gives up on her health.”

Stay for the interview – Allan declares himself the ultimate estrogen blocker. Read Deb’s full story and hear her dedication ›

Saturday – Shirley

Shirley’s daughter Marla remembers her for her smile, her warmth and her sensitivity. Family was her happy place.

Marla told us about her mother as a list of all the times she didn’t give up – not after her husband passed in 2001, not when she was diagnosed in 2002, not in remission in 2004, and not when it came back in 2010.

Marla has had her own checks every year since she turned 45. She says they’re not enjoyable, but they make her channel her mom. Read Shirley’s full story and watch her dedication ›

Sunday – Nana Kathy

Kathy’s daughter Sierra is a distance runner. When her mom was diagnosed, Sierra was about to run 50 miles through the desert near Bryce Canyon – and somewhere in the middle of that race she found herself sobbing about it, wondering what her family had done to deserve a second round of this.

Her mom, meanwhile, took on the appointments, the hair loss, the medications and the mastectomy recovery and came out the other side as the most positive version of herself.

“She completed the ultra marathon that no one willingly signs up for.”

Today she gets to be Nana Kathy to Sierra’s three-year-old son, and the two of them are each other’s favorite people. Read Kathy’s full story and watch her dedication ›

Come move a mile with us

We’re going all month. Run it, walk it, crawl it – treadmill, trail, a lap around the block with the dog. Any pace, any time of day. One mile is one mile, and it’s never too late to start.

Log your miles in the Run 31 Strava group, share them with #KAFERuns31, or text a photo to 360.676.5233. We love seeing them.

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