Racing to Save Lives

Welcome to my Team In Training home page.

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 cancers. These people are the real heroes on our team, and we need your support to cross the ultimate finish line - a cure!

My Grandma, Ione Vanderlin, was diagnosed with Leukemia in her mid-eighties and because the treatment for the disease is harder on an elderly person than the disease itself, she was left to just let the disease run its course. Well, I am "running" my own course in San Diego to help raise money so that people who are my Grandma's age don't have to sit around and let some disease take over because there isn't a treatment that is less harsh on the body. Please help me reach my goal so that I can go walk my heart out for 13.1 miles in memory of my Grandma.

This isn't my first time being on this Team....this time last year, I signed up as a participant and trained and completed my first half marathon in Seattle. I had such a great experience; I am back as a Mission Captain this year. My job is to make sure all our participants remember why they are raising money and how people are affected by blood cancers as well as by the donations we raise for LLS.

Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance LLS's mission. Don't forget that it is tax deductible!! :o) If you would rather write a check and you don't have my mailing address, please email me at NauTweety@aol.com and I will get that to you.

Check in here to see how I am doing as well as my blog: http://joygaeraths.blogspot.com/

Thanks for your support!!