Friday, October 1st is my fundraising deadline! Please donate if you can!

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated! Your generosity is endless. I have 9 days left to raise another $1000! We can do this!

UPDATE 9/14/2010

This past Sunday marked 5 weeks until the marathon and I'm getting super excited about it, and nervous! Thanks for visiting the website, and if you'd like to make a donation, I'd greatly appreciate it. $1,950 left to go to reach my goal of $3000!

UPDATE 9/2/2010

Thank you to everyone who has donated so far! You guys are amazing. Your generosity is so inspiring and it has been such a great motivator to keep trucking through the miles to get to the marathon. It's almost 6 weeks away! Training is going well, despite a minor set back due to shin splints. This past weekend, I ran in the 100 on 100 relay, competing with a team to run 100 miles in a day! We finished it in 14.5 hours and had a blast doing so.

If you would like to donate to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society through my webpage, I would greatly appreciate it! LLS has been funding cancer research and patient care since 1949 and in that time has awarded more than $680 million in research funding.

100 miles later!

Nike Women's Marathon or Bust!

UPDATE 8/6/2010

Thank you to everyone who has gotten me to 25% of my goal! Yeah! Last week, we ran 11 miles, and the miles are only going to keep climbing. Things are looking great for October 17 in San Francisco!!

Thank you for visiting my Team in Training Fundraising page!

This October, I'll be running the Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training. That's right, a marathon, 26.2 whopping miles! You might not believe this, and by the time October comes around I might not believe it either, but I'm really excited for the race. I'll be running with 20,000 other women and about 2,000 men in one of the most beautiful cities in the U.S. and I get to do it for a great cause--to help find a cure for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. That's why I have the goal to raise $3000 to go towards LLS.

While running up and down the hills of San Fran for 26.2 miles is going to be among the most difficult things I've ever done, it doesn't even pale in comparison to the mountains that the patients of these diseases have to surmount to survive.

Since 1949, LLS has raised $680 million for research. For the past 22 years, Team in Training has been an integral part of that fundraising force.

I sincerely hope that the mission of LLS moves you to help the cause. Every dollar counts in the effort to find a cure, so even the smallest donation helps!

Here are two ways to donate:

online here on the website through LLS' secure process, or

Email me at kristin.rude@gmail.com and I'll send you the address where you can mail a check

P.S. Follow my progress and read some of the crazy thoughts I have while running at my blog: http://ruderunning.blogspot.com/

Or visit my website, https://sites.google.com/site/ruderunning/, for links and more updates!