Jennie's Team In Training Fundraising Page

Running Down Cancer

On October 19, 2008 I will run in the Nike Women's Marathon with the other members of my Tucson Team In Training. All of us in TNT are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and myeloma from taking more lives. I'm completing this marathon in honor of all individuals who are battling blood cancers. Since 2005 together we have raised over $15,000 to support LLS. This year is special for Team In Training: it is our twentieth anniversary. So in honor of twenty years of fighting blood cancers, my goal this season is to bring our total fundraising since 2005 to $20,000.

The Goal:

Raise $5000 by 28 August 2008. Please consider making a donation to help support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in its mission to find a cure for blood cancers. And if you are unable to make a financial donation, your moral support is just as welcome!

Why Run A Marathon?

Each year our battle to raise funds to support the important work of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society grows more important. On June 2, 2008, my Uncle Ken passed away after a long, painful battle with graft versus host disease that he struggled with as a result of a bone marrow transplant he received last fall in an effort to treat chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. On May 6, 2008 Howard Friday, the grandfather of my best friend from high school, lost his battle with lymphoma. I train and run this year in loving memory of both Ken and Howard, as well as for the memory of Alex Steutze and the sadly increasing list of other loved ones for whom you have asked me to run in honor or memory. Blood cancer does not rest, and neither can we. On a much brighter note, I also am proud to run in honor of my friend Jan Riggs, who will celebrate one year in remission from multiple myeloma this August. Jan is the hope that we have for all cancer patients, and your generous donation will help fund the life saving research of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

For more information and regular training updates GO TO MY TNT WEBSITE. Please help support me in this challenge by contributing generously. All donations are 100% tax-deductible and 75% of all funds go directly to support research, public and professional education, advocacy, patient aid, and community service programs.

Thanks for your support, and please visit my website often to see my progress!

-Jennie

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I'm running this marathon in honor of Jan Riggs and in loving memory of my Uncle Ken Vinograd and in honor of Jan Riggs, my Honored Teammates. I also run in honor of Amy Gery, Jon Bart, Gabbi Martin, Daniela Garcia, Gene Espinoza, Joel Zopletal, Brooke Gebow, Nancy Zisook, Lina DiGregorio, Lillian Houser, Karson Walters, and Chris Bonham. I run in memory of my grandfather, Arthur Vinograd, who died after a long battle with Hodgkin's disease in 1959, my great aunt, Ruth Vinograd, who lost her battle with lymphoma in 1995, Jeffrey Valentino, Howard Friday, Alana Birchim, Kate Wolf, Steve Goodman, Michael Fujimoto, D.J. Herbert, Lillian Aiello, Sherry Brown, Fran Perry, Diane Dhruv, Risa, Karen Collins, Tom Peterson, Scott Lee, Carlos Valencia, Gloria M. Harris, Clara M. Drobka, Lisa Harris, and Fredric Green.