Team in Training - running to save lives

I thought I'd post this here on my blog. I'm training to participate in an endurance event as a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) Team In Training. All of us on Team In Training are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives.

I am completing this event in honor of all individuals who are battling blood cancer, but particularly for my grand niece Melissa Del Rosario who was diagnosed in January 2010 with Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).

Mel, I will have you in my thoughts during every mile of the race. You and others are the real heroes on this team, and heroes of the stories I will tell one day. And, to my husband, Dave, whose incredible resilient spirit guides my every step. I love you dearly, and pray for your recovery. You are an extraordinary person, coach and chef extra ordinaire, I do miss deeply your strange international concotions.

To battle this, we need everyone's support to cross the ultimate finish line - a cure! Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance LLS's mission. Sincere thanks to all of my friends and colleagues. Your kind words of support, and silent loving, hugs say it all.

To support me please go to my fundraising page .

Thanks for your support!