Official Charity

All proceeds from this event will be donated to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) through their Team In Training division. Margaret Feie and Cindy Bryant annually organize this event to fundraise for various LLS Team In Training events. Each Team In Training participant raises a minimum amount for events which fund research to find cures for Leukemia, Lymphoma, Myeloma and other blood-related cancers.

Additionally, each participant in a Team In Training event is assigned a hero or chooses a personal hero to train in his/her honor. Each hero is from the local area or is someone the participant knows that has been affected by a blood-related cancer. Please visit our hero page to meet some of our heroes.

Team in Training is the world’s largest endurance sports training program. The program provides training to run or walk a whole or half marathon or participate in a triathlon or century (100+ mile) bike ride. For more information on the program, please go to www.Teamintraining.org

A few facts about why we train for a cure . . . .

• An estimated 670,950 Americans currently have blood-related cancers.
• Every 5 minutes, someone is diagnosed -more than 106,000 new cases are expected this year.
• Every nine minutes, someone dies from blood-related cancers.

But, this fight is not hopeless. . . 25 years ago, only 5% of children diagnosed with leukemia survived. Today, 85% of the children with leukemia and 84% of those with Hodgkin’s disease will live, thanks to the research funded by people involved in projects like Team In Training!