Team in Training Fundraising Opportunities

I've blogged for blood, bone marrow, photos, hats, guest bloggers, and it's high time I blogged for dollars, too!

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society has a program called "Team in Training" which provides participants coaching and training for endurance events in exchange for fundraising by all participants. I did my first half-Ironman with Team in Training and it's a great program. You learn alot about leukemia, but even more, you become increasingly motivated to raise more money and to make darn sure you cross the finish line as you think about and connect with leukemia patients -- honorees -- and help to find a cure.

The Society gives a very high percentage of its dollars to fund research, and there have been plenty of success stories. Gleevec, for instance, is a recent drug funded, in part, by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society that helps patients with A.L.L. who have the Philadelphia positive chromosome. To give you perspective on this, it was a big sigh of relief two years ago to learn Bonnie was Philadelphia negative -- being Philadelphia positive was a very poor indicator. Two years later, with the success of Gleevec, it's actually encouraging to be Philadelphia positive as Gleevec works so well with this patient subset.

Anyway, Pablo Fuentes used to work for a friend of Bonnie Tonneson -- Andrew Rosenfeld -- and he will be doing the Maui Marathon later this summer and Bonnie will be his honoree. You can check out his site (and make a donation!) by clicking here. You can also email Pablo for more information by clicking here and he will send you a nice packet about himself and the Society (it's worth reading). Here's the link:

Pablo Fuentes' Team In Training Page