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!