Captain Cartwheel

Hello faithful reader(s)!  Life has been absolutely crazy the last month and will continue to be so well into July.  Most of the craziness is due to work, May and June seem to be the busiest time of year because our Fall Season kicks off and our Summer Season culminates in fabulous event weekends. It's a great time of year, it just leaves little time for much else.

I'm excited to announce that my mom and I are training for the Nike Women's Marathon & Half Marathon in October.  We've signed up with Team In Training and are raising money for blood cancer research and patient support programs.  I'm super excited to have my mom on the team and she seems to enjoy the running so far. 

It's important for me to return to the team as a participant this season.  Last week, as my co-worker and I prepared to take a team to San Diego, I received and email from a past participant's sister.  She was writing to inform me that her brother had suffered a relapse and was back in treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma.  I have a very vivid picture of this man and his daughter running by me at mile 22.5 of the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon last year.  They were all smiles and decked out in their TNT race day attire.  I read his most recent CaringBridge site and he looks like a very different man now.  =(

This is just the most recent of my connections to this cause, my list growing longer every day.  The silver lining on the news was the trip to San Diego - where 4,000 TNT participants took on the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon & Half Marathon in the name of blood cancer and raised a over $12 million!!  It's difficult to sit in a room full of heros - people who not only fight their own battles but also fight in the name of others - and not get teary. 

Please take a moment to check out our fundraising page and consider donating to help us reach the goal of finding better, less harmful treatment options, funding patient aid and ultimate goal of finding cures. All amounts are appreciated! If you cannot donate financially, please consider sending our web site onto others you know.

Thank you so much for your consideration. Go TEAM! 

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"Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground."
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