My Fundraising Page

Racing to Save Lives

Welcome to my fundraising page!

I've gone completely nuts (okay, it wasn't a long trip) and decided to try and do my part to fight cancer by representing a really great organization in a half marathon in San Diego. The organization is the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. I'm really impressed with the research, clinics and patient treatments they fund with help from people like you and me.

I'm going to spend the next few months getting in shape for this endurance event one step at a time and raise $2,900 for the organization one dollar at a time.

I'm competing in this event in honor of all individuals who are battling blood cancers and also in honor of my Mom and my Grandma. My Grandma is a cancer survivor and my Mom is currently undergoing treatment. I have been and continue to be inspired by and proud of these great ladies.

So help me out! Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help LLS do what it can to treat and terminate cancer.

I hope you will visit my web site often.

Be sure to check back frequently to see my progress. Thanks for your

support!

2/25/2010:

I have been using a new app on my iPhone called iTreadmill. It records my distance, time, pace, calories burned etc and charts it out. It's pretty cool to see the line on the chart go up as my pace seems to improve just a tiny bit everyday. =)

2/27/2010

Had a great training session with the team down on the river trail. After some of us went to the River Market for rehydration and refueling but also to nail down our strategy for the Little Rock Marathon Expo. Crossing fingers that we fully capitalize on that opportunity.

3/2/2010

Did my first 10K workout in training and simultaneously my first round about circuit. Yay! This is the first time I haven't run to some marker and then retraced my steps. It feels surprisingly good, like I'm really actually going somewhere. =)

3/3/2010

Fundraising: I've sold 49 raffle tickets for the beautiful quilty my mother in law HANDMADE and then donated to the cause. I'm so very blessed! I'm determined to sell at least 80 tickets at $2.50 each which will raise $200 for LLS!!!

Training: Today is a rest day on the schedule and I thought I'd sleep in but couldn't. Just too accustomed to waking up at 3:30 I guess. Instead I got to be amazed at how much housework I got done before the kids/hubby woke up. =)

3/6/2010

We had a group training session today. We covered five miles along the river and it was really beautiful. Then quite a few of the people on the team manned a booth at the Expo for the Little Rock Marathon tomorrow. Training is a challenge. Fundraising is HARD. Thanks so much to all of you who are making it a little bit easier. =)

4/12/2010

Well I've been slacking on my updating. Sorry about that. Saturday was a very fun group training. When we set out there were only two slow pokes, Cheryl and I. We somehow managed to turn the wrong was and go a long way in the wrong direction. I'm sure it'll be funny...eventually. =)