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26 August 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Do Good and Win Stuff

A while ago I donated to Erin’s  (See Mom Run Far) fundraising efforts.  She is raising money as part of Team Meb raising money for the Meb Foundation. I was impressed that Erin was training to run the ING NYC Marathon while raising money for a good cause, in and of itself.  Training for a [...]

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19 October 2008 ~ 8 Comments

No Group Run This Week

Since the majority of my TNT group was in San Francisco for the Nike Women’s Marathon* this weekend, we didn’t have a planned group run. Even those that are running in San Antonio with me were in San Francisco, with the exception of Jim and even he was on vacation in California. It really didn’t [...]

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04 October 2008 ~ 4 Comments

TNT Group Run #17

I woke up around 3:30 AM today and stumbled to the kitchen to eat my oatmeal (I eat Archer Farms Organic Multigrain Cereal before long runs. Oatmeal is soft, thus it doesn’t upset my stomach before a long run.) As I was eating I could hear the wind blowing outside, I was a little scared [...]

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29 June 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Why Fundraising?

My family has been hit hard by breast cancer. My mother, grandmother, great-aunt, great-grandmother have all been diagnosed with this beast, some of them multiple times. At first I started thinking I would do fundraising events specific to that cancer. I’ve done a couple Race for the Cure 5Ks. (Awesome events, BTW.) A few years [...]

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18 June 2008 ~ 5 Comments

Fundraising Clinic

Last night the local office for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society held a fundraising clinic for participants in the fall Team In Training events. There was a very small group of us that came, nearly as many participants as there were LLS staff and TNT mentors there. But they provided us with some fun tips: [...]

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08 June 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Kick-Off Recap

The kick-off event for TNT was yesterday and it has solidified my excitement for this event. We received our training schedules (even though they will actually change by our first group run on Saturday as they switch locations around) and training jerseys, assigned mentors, listened to presentations on shoes/clothing and yelled out a lot of [...]

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