Racing to Save Lives

Dear Family and Friends,

As most of you may already know, I have been training for the last several months to participate in the San Francisco Treasure Island Triathlon. The big race day will take place on Saturday, November 8, 2008, starting at 7:15AM at Treasure Island right here in the beautiful San Francisco Bay. The race will involve:

• 1.5 k swim
• 40 k bike
• 10 k run

So why am I doing this? Well, the training IS intense but I LOVE it not only for the physical and mental challenge, but most importantly I know that all of this hard work is helping to raise money and awareness in the fight against cancer.

As a member of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) Team-In-Training Silicon Valley Triathlon Team, our mission is to raise funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives and to provide much-needed support services to patients and their families. Our team has trained very hard over the last several months, with the training becoming more intense as we draw closer to Race Day. 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!

I am also completing this race in special honor of two people I hold very dear to my heart:

• My grandfather, who with the loving support of his family and close friends is courageously battling liver cancer at the age of 85; and

• My loving mother, who after a year of living with pancreatic cancer, was finally laid to rest on December 11, 2002 at the age of 52. We miss you, Ma!

ANY support you can provide will go directly to fund cancer research and to provide much-needed support services to cancer patients and their families. You have the convenience of contributing right here online, or you may submit a check to me and made payable to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (please email me if you would like to use this method of contribution).

Many thanks to all who have already donated. For those who have submitted checks, it takes a few days for LLS to process so don't worry - your donation will be posted :)!

More pictures will be posted as we get closer to Race Day, so stay tuned...

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions: SFTriGirl4Life@yahoo.com

Thanks again for your support!

Michelle Galicia Tangunan

The Soul of a Triathlete - Quotes to Live By

• "Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out just how far they can go." ~T.S. Elliot
• "Obsessive is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated." ~Unknown
• "If you are good, be better. If you are better, be the best. If you are the best, find something else to be good at." ~Unknown
• "Suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret." ~Unknown
• "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith..." ~1 Timothy 4:7