When we announced that this year’s JDRF One Walk will our first National event, our monthly Adults with T1D meet-up decided to lean into the virtual platform.

Denise Scheffler decided to unite the meet-up and captain our first NJ Metro T1D’s Walk team.

“This year I decided that everyone is home in this pandemic situation, and it would be nice to come together as a team a little differently. I decided that there are so many people that want to walk, but choose not to because they don’t have a team to belong to like myself.

So I decided there should be one large team for others that want to be involved and want a team to join. It has been surprising that we have discussed a new team and a week later we had at least 8 new members. Anyone from anywhere can join this team no should feel like they don’t have support this year!”

Denise, her co-captain Audrey and their team members invite any adult to join their team. And, while the team keeps growing, team members rallied the weekend of October 10 to walk their way. Walkers picked their own path and distance and shared photos while out and about!

Click here to support or join the NJ Metro T1D One Walk team, or register your own One Walk team at walk.jdrf.org.