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 of Northern New Jersey. 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. Some of thse people are in my own family. These people are the real heroes on our team, and we need your support to cross the ultimate finish line - a cure!

I will be running the Marine Corp Marathon on October 26th 2008 in Washington DC and celebrate 20 years cancer free and turning 50. I had testicular cancer when I was 29 years old which spread one year later to the lymph gland which wound up being a level 4. I went through surgery, radiation and chemo therapy losing 30 pounds at that time and all my body hair. This had a toll on my body, mind and spirit at the time and 20 years later I know it is time to give back to celebrate my 20 years of living cancer free.

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. "--Theodore Roosevelt, "Man in the Arena" Speech (April 23, 1910)

Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance LLS's mission. You can contribute on this site or through my Paypal account at: mranziety@yahoo.com or if you wish you can send a check made out to the

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and send to my mailing address at;

Kevin McConnell

6 Stonybrook Rd

Rockaway, NJ 07866

I hope you will visit my web site often. Be sure to check back frequently to see my progress. Thanks for your support!

here is a link to the Marine Corp Marathon:

http://www.marinemarathon.com/Marine_Corps_Marathon.htm

If you wish to ask me any questions or want to send a word of encouragment my e-mail address is:

mranziety@yahoo.com

Thank you,

Kevin