Welcome to my Team In Training (TNT) home page.

Yes, that's me on the right - in full training mode for the New York City Half-Marathon on Sunday March 18, 2011.

I'll be run-walking 13.1 miles through Central Park, Times Square and the streets of Manhattan for my own fitness and as a personal challenge for 2012.

But I'm ALSO on a fundraising mission, to help the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society find cures and more effective treatments for a range of blood cancers. With your support, we can help improve the quality of life for patients and their families.

I've been so lucky to collect donations from around the world, and most recently from around the office. We catered a fantastic work lunch last week and my share of the funds raised came to $115, which was a fantastic result. A second lunch is planned for Valentine's Day (awww!).

I'm over 75% of the way towards meeting my fundraising target, but I still need your help. If you can spare some change in support of my efforts, I would really appreciate it - and so would the LLS.

And if you're planning to be in NYC on March 18, please follow me along the half-marathon route and shout encouraging messages in my direction. I might need that. You should also probably bring Gatorade, Band-Aids, and a stretcher. They will prove very useful too.