Racing to Save Lives

Welcome to our Team's Team In Training home page.

We are training to participate in an endurance event as members 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. We are 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 our team's participation in Team In

Training and help advance LLS's mission.

We hope you will visit our web site often. Be sure to check back

frequently to see our progress. Thanks for your support!

See Thomas' small blog post about it here.

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Week 1 Update (Feb 6)

Planks, push-ups, and sits up in the rain and an exhilarating 4 mile run to top it all off. We've started training!

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Week 2 Update (Feb 13)

No rain during all 3 training sessions this week. It's starting to get better already!

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Week 3 Update (Feb 20)

The week started out pretty good. But then this weekend was the first time we had OYO (on your own) run. So we ran from the kitchen to the TV room. That's about as far as we got.

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Week 4 Update (Feb 27)

This was a challenging week. Tuesday's buddy run was painful after skipping the previous Saturday run. So we made sure to make it to this Saturday's team run, which turned out to be a GREAT run. Until we got home. One of us was completely exhausted and out of commission for a few hours. The other was fine. Guess who was who.

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Week 5 Update (Mar 6)

Tuesday buddy runs getting easier. And getting to know the folks on the team is putting on good pressure not to skip sessions.

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Week 6 Update (Mar 13)

Weekday training schedule starting to become routine. Was a beautiful day for the 10-mile run at Half Moon Bay.

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Week 7 Update (Mar 20)

This was a tough training week. We worked hard. Adjusting to running in warmer, sunny weather and added in some hill training on Saturday's OYO run.

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Week 13 Update (May 1)

This was supposed to be an OYO (on your own) weekend again. We still haven't done our 5-8 miles yet. We still have Sunday to do it, right?

And wow. It's been a while since the last post. What happened in that time?

Week 8 (Mar 27)

12 mile run in HILLY Portola Valley. Key word was HILLY.

Week 9 (Apr 3) and Week 10 (Apr 10)

Completely no running whatsoever. Was off eating and sightseeing in Taiwan and Japan instead of going to weekly running workouts.

Week 11 (Apr 17)

An OYO weekend. Ran 5 miles. Sort of. Tried to run 5 miles is probably a better way to put it. Taking 2 weeks off felt like starting all over. Not recommended. Next time we train for an event, there are no vacations allowed during the training. Just too painful!

Week 12 (Apr 24)

16 mile run starting in Woodside. Can we say nuts?!?!?! One of us has discovered pain medication. It's great! Why did no one tell me about this about a hundred miles sooner!?!

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