Racing to Save Lives

Welcome to my Team In Training home page.

I'm training to for my first marathon, the Country Music Marathon in Nashville as a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) Team In Training. This is a picture of me, Julie, and Kyra all bundled up after our first race together on 12.13.2008. Since this race I've completed two other races, including the Manahattan Half Marathon on 1.25.2009.

More importantly 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. These people are the real heroes on our team, and we need your support to cross the ultimate finish line - a cure!

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

Here is how your donation can help:

- $50 can register 1 person to be a bone marrow donor

- $75 can provide HLA (bone marrow) typing for a family member of a patient with leukemia

- $100 can pay for the cost of 4 patients' chemotherapy drug perscription co-payments

- $300 can train 25 peer volunteers who can provide emotional support to newly diagnosed patients

- $500 can provide patient aid to a person with Leukemia or a related cancer for a year

- $1,000 can allow patients to meet with health care specialists to design and discuss their disease, treatment plan and prepare them with the info they will need during the treatment process

- $2,000 can provide patients with a one month supply of Gleevec

You can follow my training at: http://www.tabesintraining.com/.

Thanks for your support!