Finishing a marathon, half marathon, century, triathlon or any other endurance sport event is an amazing personal achievement. As a participant of Team In Training, your steps, strokes or pedals across the finish line can have an even bigger impact by helping to combat blood cancer.
This year the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Team In Training, its flagship fundraising campaign and the world’s first and largest endurance sports training program. The year-round program provides professional training for participants for more than 200 major marathons, half marathons, centuries, hiking adventures and triathlons all while raising funds to benefit blood cancer research.
Team In Training was founded in 1988 by Bruce Cleland who formed a team to train for and run the New York City Marathon. While training for the race, Cleland raised funds for the LLS in honor of his daughter Georgia who had been diagnosed at the age of two with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of cancer among children. Georgia is now 29 years old, cancer-free and has completed three Team In Training half-marathons herself!
To help get to the ultimate finish line – the end of blood cancers – The Motherhood is honored to be working with the LLS to raise awareness about Team In Training and how to get involved with this fantastic program. In the last 25 years, the program’s 570,000 participants have helped the LLS invest a remarkable $875 million in blood cancer research.
All of the fundraising from Team in Training over the last 25 years has helped the LLS get closer than ever to ending blood cancer. Advances in research, partly funded by the LLS have increased the five-year survival rate for ALL from 3% in 1964 to an astounding 90% today.
For more information about Team In Training and to learn how you can participate in the program visit www.teamintraining.org and www.LLS.org.
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