Racing to Save Lives

Welcome to my Team In Training home page!

After running two marathons with the East Bay Run Team, I have now joined the South Bay Run Team to train for the Nike Women's Half Marathon on October 18, 2009!

As with my previous events, I am training 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 continue to be inspired by the people I have met through Team In Training, most importantly our honorees. This season I will be running for my friends in the East Bay as well as my new friends here in the South Bay. 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. My personal fundraising goal this season is $2,500. Please help me achieve this goal for LLS!

I am running this season with my husband Bryan. If you would also like to donate to Bryan, his website is

http://pages.teamintraining.org/sj/nikesf09/bbibeau

Participate in our TNT Raffle! You will receive a raffle ticket for each $10 donated. Prizes include an IPod Nano, IPod Shuffle and more!

I hope you will visit my web site often.

Be sure to check back frequently to see my progress. Thanks for your

support!

UPDATES

I am halfway to my fundraising goal! Thanks so much to everyone who has donated. My fundraising deadline is October 1st, which is fast approaching. If you want to be included in the Raffle, the drawing will be on September 19th so donate by then to get your raffle tickets!

We had a great run north of Santa Cruz in the redwoods off of Highway 1 a couple of weeks ago. I had a great 9-mile run! I am getting ready to run 10 miles this Saturday. It will be the longst I have run since my 2007 Nike Marathon. It is exciting to be in the double digits again!

September 1st: Well I made it through a long, very hot 10 mile run on Saturday! It feels great to be in the double digits again for the first time since the Nike Marathon 2 years ago. I have just a few long runs left before I go the distance of 13.1 on race day. I am down to about 100 miles of training left, and $1,000 to raise to meet my goal of $2,500! It has been a great season and I am looking forward to the next month and a half.

September 14th: I logged another great 10 mile run on Saturday! It was my best run of the season so far, I felt great! We ran in San Francisco along the Great Highway and up through Golden Gate Park. The weather was perfect, nice and cool and we even had some rain and thunder. I am just over a month out from my event. Thanks to everyone who has donated so far! Don't forget our raffle drawing is this Saturday September 19th so get your raffle tickets this week!

September 18th: Our Raffle Drawing is tomorrow! All donations made up until tomorrow around noon time will receive one raffle ticket for every $10 donated. We will be announcing the lucky winners via email and on our websites. Next weekend I have my last long run of the season... 12 miles!