1) You or someone you love has or has had a blood cancer. You know that LLS has been a key player in making sure they had access to the best medicine and care to help them through their struggles.

2) You believe I can run a marathon. You’ll put your money on it.

3) You’ve graduated from school, gotten married, had a baby, bought a house or achieved any other milestone that I’ve helped you celebrate. You want to help me celebrate one of my greatest (26.2) milestones in life thus far.

4) If not now, there is a good chance that someone close to you will receive a diagnosis and you want to make sure that the best medicine and support is available to them to make sure they survive.

5) You need a tax deduction.

6) You can’t fix blood cancer. You teach, you write, you sell, you build, but you don’t know how to find a cure. You know giving money to the LLS will empower those that can.

7) You owe me money and know this is the best way to pay me back.

8) You’re having a bad day, week, month, year and donating to a good cause will make you feel much better about yourself and the kind of impact you are having on others.

9) You have $15 in your wallet and you know you’re better off bagging lunch, walking rather than driving/taking a car, and skipping the morning late` or after work cocktail. Your body will thank you. (And I will thank you – forever.)

10) Someone has done something kind for you and you want to send your own good vibes out into the universe.

11) You love me and don’t want me to have to find an “alternative means” of coming up with the rest of the money.

12) You…just love me.

DONATE TODAY!

Help me reach my goal by the end of this month. Please. With cherries on top.

Jessica's Running the Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco!

Maybe I'm crazy. I think I can run a marathon.

But not by myself.

That's why I've joined The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team in Training, the world's first and largest charity sports training program. Team in Training is going to help keep my limbs from injury, get me up and out of bed on Saturday mornings to run around Prospect Park, and make sure I'm ready to cross the finish line on October 17th at the Nike Women's Marathon.

I'm looking to all of you for support as well.

This is not just a physical endurance challenge. I'm aiming to raise nearly $4,000 to help find cures for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma, and myeloma. Every 4 minutes, an American is diagnosed with a blood cancer. Every 10 minutes, someone dies from a blood cancer. While this is one of the greatest tests of my own might, there are people battling cancer every day who demonstrate the most inspiring resilience. To hear their stories, see this video: Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Mission Video.

Your donations will help me get through those 26.2 miles, but most importantly, it will help those with cancer in their daily journey and push us closer to cures that will save lives.

Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s mission to cure blood cancers and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

I'll sweat, we'll give.

Visit my blog, That's Glow, Not Sweat, to hear more about my day-to-day training adventures.