The bright pink fingernails did their job. Midway through an interview with Town Planner Lisa Bourbonnais last week, I realized that she was wearing  very pink nail polish. This on a woman who isn't the nail-polish type. So I bit. "What's with the pink nails?" It turns out that Bourbonnais is planning to participate in a Susan G. Komen "3 Day for a Cure" walk in Tampa, Fl., Oct. 21-23. Participants pledge to raise at least $2,300. For that, they get the opportunity to walk 60 miles over three days, sleeping the two nights on the ground in pink tents. "It's just so fun," said Bourbonnais. And …

When Janet Lefkowitz first noticed a “weird lump” during a breast self-exam two years ago, she was on a hiking-and-biking trip in Utah with her husband. When Doreen Wiggins’s husband died suddenly two-and-a-half years ago from a previously undiagnosed heart ailment, they were with their children on a ski trip in Colorado. Exercise was a fundamental part of life to both women. Not surprisingly, both turned to exercise to help them cope with their life-altering circumstances. “I think exercise was my route to healing,” explained Wiggins recently. Her husband, Michael Wiggins, was an orthopedic …