San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon, 2010

Racing to Save Lives

Welcome to my Rock and Roll Marathon 2010 Team In Training home page.

I'm participating in the San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon in a completely new way this year. I am riding my bike! We will be escoring hand cyclists and wheel chair athletes at the head of the marathon. We will start 5 minutes before the rest of the participants, so we will have about 30,000 people chasing us.

Why am I doin this? This is an endurance event 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, and multiple myeloma from taking more lives. I am completing this event in honor of all individuals, including myself, who are battling blood cancers. We need your support to cross the ultimate finish line - a cure!

Why am I so passionate about this cause? I am one of the few people I have heard of who have survived two allogeneic stem cell transplants for severe cases of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. I am still suffering from side effects of my second transplant, although the cancer appears to be gone. However, if my leukemia returns again a third time, the stem cell transplant will not be a treatment option, and there is no other good way of curing or controlling the disease. So I am very personally committed to finding a better cure. Even if I don't get leukemia again, I don't think anyone should ever have to go through the horrors I have been through. You can see more of my story on my web page, www.wilcoxent.com.

I would welcome all assistance to make my dream of a world without blood cancers become a reality. For the Rock and Roll Marathon, I am raising $250.00. If you would like to be part of the heroic effort to find a cure, please make a donation, however small, to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance LLS's mission. Share this site with your friends and ask them to help too!

I hope you will visit my web site often. Be sure to check back frequently to see my progress. Thanks for your support!