I can't believe that my fundraising went up another $100 today! With a great friend who has always been one of my heroes, to another friend whose been a relentless cheerleader, to the $ from the cans finally put in! Let's see how far we can go in the last 48 hours! We're only $656 and change from $4,000! This continued support has humbled me! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

A cherished memory for you & yours,

A future without blood cancers for all!

Sarah ‎& Santa Claus have worked out a deal! He'll write personalized letters for you & yours (don't forget your teachers!) sent from the North Pole, I keep track of whose naughty or nice for a small donation. Together we find a cure for blood cancers! Send me a msg for Top Secret Details! All orders must be in by 11/15 for 1st week of Dec Delivery!

Make a donation here and put "Letters" in the comments then email me at sarcarlaur@gmail.com and I'll send you the Details!

I've actually raised $3,243 (there's just a lag time with the $ posting) which means I'm only $757 from my goal of $4,000!! THANK YOU!

Here is Team WTF + a few honorary friends who ran along side us!

Left to right: Naomi, Irene, Trenace, Athena, Mary, Porsche, Stacie, Sarah

What an amazing weekend we had!! Thank you for all of your support before, during and after the race!! See you there next year!

While our race is over, the fight to find a cure is not yet over. Please continue to help us find a cure! I'm trying to get as close to $4,000 as I can! THANK YOU!

Welcome to my Team In Training Fundraising page. Wait, wasn't Sarah just training and fundraising for a Half-Iron Tri? But now she's doing what? Isn't she still training for...

I thought she hurt her back...

Team WTF! ...Women, Titans, Fearless

To mark our 40th birthdays, a group of my high school girlfriends have set out to push our boundaries and to succeed in something we had never done before. It had to be something big, something meaningful...

"WTF! We're all gonna run a marathon?"

I'm fortunate to say they're all still talking to me after uniting to face this challenge, because we knew it had to be done for a very good cause...

"WTF! We have to raise how much money?"

Challenge number two, but again we knew it had to be done for a very good cause...

"Oh, WTF... We are Women, We are Titans. We are Fearless. Let's do it!"

Now we've turned headstrong toward our challenges to fight and to conquer, but we need your help and support!

We're training to participate in the Nike Women's Marathon as members 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. We are 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 help to cross the ultimate finish line - a cure!

Please make a donation to support our team's participation in Team In Training and help advance LLS's mission.

We hope you will visit our website often. Be sure to check back frequently to see our progress. Thanks for your support!

Here's our story...

In the 1980's, a handful of girls began to build friendships with one another, some during middle school and others as Poway High Titans. As time passed, the friendships grew stronger and stronger. College forced them to go their separate ways, but nonetheless, the strong bonds would not be broken.

Fast forward to their 10-year high school reunion. (L to R) Mary, Naomi, Sarah, Trenace and Athena found that the friendships had not faded. Quite the opposite. It was as if no time had passed. Since then, they have continued to remain close friends and do what friends do - support, encourage, inspire and motivate.

Here's to what could become our newest addition to our many annual traditions!

I'm also thrilled that another great high school girlfriend Stacie - also about to turn 40 - who I ran my first 1/2 marathon with in 2006, will also be joining us for the run! (left)

Hope Kelly (right) and Jamiellin (below) can join us for the marathon celebration!

The latest update is that the 4 gals will run the full while Stacie and I will be doing the half-marathon. I haven't been able to run farther than 6.2 miles due to my back, somedays even walking straight is a challenge, so we'll see how it goes! But between Stacie and my friend Debby (I still remember her saying, many marathons ago... "I'm not an athlete, I'm a dancer!" - turns out she's BOTH) we'll all get to the finish line! I've been dying to use this picture of her somewhere, it's one of my favorites, EVER for TNT finishers!

Also, I'm so excited that Sara D and Alison (seen below in Gnome Village from Wildflower Training Weekend) are also training for the FULL - crazy S. Bay Beeyatches!

And last but most important of all, we'll all be walking in memory of Sheri's Dad who was lost this year to AML. I'll never forget the first phone call that I had with Sheri (bottom, purple) when she first signed up for Team In Training (it's a great story!) and I'll never forget when she told me that after her first amazing season, ironically her dad was diagnosed with blood cancer. Sheri will still be a faster walker than I am a runner, and will lead this motley crew across the finish! (Sheri I tried to do a Bon Jovi joke but it just doesn't work as well).