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My Fundraising Page
Jul 06, 2009 by Argerie Vasilakes
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Racing to Save Lives
Welcome to my Team In Training home page.
I'm training to participate in the Akron Half Marathon 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 my friend Michael Lapides, who is a survivor of Multiple Myeloma (aka, multiple chemo treatments). A consummate and compassionate mentor, host and raconteur, Michael taught me once the trick to settling nerves before facing a large audience. He said, "Recite after me: 'I am alert and alive.'" And so, having faced a challenge even larger than public speaking, Michael continues to practice his own philosophy.
Now that I am training to run 13.1 miles straight on September 26, I hear Michael's voice, "Recite after me..." and I strengthen my endurance with more and more aliveness every week.
Won't you please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance LLS's mission?
I hope you will visit my web site often to see my progress. Thanks for your support!
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Mon Jul 27 09:09:55 EDT 2009
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