Slim People in Progress

Team in Training Celebrating 20 Years

Team in Training (TNT) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.  This announcement is for folks in Los Angeles County.

As you know, last year I trained with TNT to run the Nike Women's Half Marathon. It was a phenomenal experience and changed my life for the better.  Nearly a year later, I'm still running and loving it.

I have a friend I recruited last year who is doing her THIRD event!. She walked the Long Beach Half last Fall; walked the Los Angeles FULL marathon in March, and is now going to train to run the Nike Half in October.  She's awesome!

The training for Fall events is starting soon. If you're not in Los Angeles, check online for meetings near you. If you are in the L.A. area, here are the info events coming up:

It's the 20th Anniversary of Team In Training. Help us reach the billion dollar mark by passing this information on!!!

We are training for :

Long Beach Full & Half Marathon (run or walk)
October 12, 2008

Nike Women's Full & Half Marathon (run or walk)
San Francisco - October 19, 2008

We have recruitment meetings for the Westside Team scheduled as follows (I live in The Valley, but I trained on the Westside - cooler in the summer and you get to train near the beach!):

Nike Women's Marathon Photo

My attempts to take a picture of the crowd at the start of the Nike Women's Marathon were not that great. But I was poking around the Nike Running site tonight and found a great picture of the crowd and the silver platter of Tiffany boxes.  Click here to check it out.

Wednesday I ran 5.3 miles.  Sunday I meet up with my running buddies for a 10 miler on hills!

Related post:
Nike Women's Marathon Post Race Report

TNT Nike Women's Marathon Wrap

I got a couple of statistics about the Nike Women's Marathon today from the Team in Training organization.

• From the Greater L.A. Chapter ~ We had ­­450 Runners & Walkers and raised over $1.4 Million!
• Nationally we had 5,301 Runners & Walkers for a combined total of $18.5 Million!

Then, a minute later I got an email from one of my running buddies that a new reality show begins tonight on PBS...Marathon Challenge! I spent a few minutes looking at the training calendar and their top 10 tips and it's pretty similar to what Coach Murphy had us doing. A novice starts by run/walking one mile and by the end of your training you're running 26 miles.

Now that I'm a "marathoner" I think I'll be tuning in to this show as I prepare for my next half in December.

 

Nike Women's Marathon Post Race Report

Earlier this evening I wrote a note to my Team in Training supporters, those who contributed to my fundraising for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. I'm reprinting part of that email here .

First, thank you for your encouraging messages before I left for San Francisco. You have no idea how much that meant to me. I felt loved and supported and confident I could do anything (except the full marathon!)

Second, thank you sooooo much for helping me raise $4,457 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  The Nike Women's Marathon raised $18.5 million for the organization which is a record for any one event. One woman in Alberta, Canada raised over $55,000! Every penny goes to research and aiding families and patients who need financial support in order to get treatment.  THANK YOU!

OK. The event.

Nike Women's Marathon was a blast!

This is just a quick update post while I get photos together and work on my report about the Nike Women's Marathon.

It was a fabulous event on a spectacular day in San Francisco. 20,000+ runners, mostly women and about 700 men ran the half marathon and full marathon. The photo is of me and my friend Erica at the post race Victory Party. We're wearing our FinisHER t-shirts.

The event raised money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society...$18,500,000 to be exact. An awesome amount of money that will help hundred of people in the years to come with much needed research.

My quads are finally recovering and my friends and are discussing our next run. 

More to come when I get my pictures sorted out and posted.

Thanks to everyone who supported me and the cause. I couldn't have done it without you.