Official Charity

All proceeds from this event will be donated to Team in Training. Nancy Knickerbocker and Jacqueline Shardo are organizing this event to fundraise for their latest event...the Chicago Triathlon. This international distance triathlon will be held in Chicago on August 28, 2005. Each participant from Team in Training will raise a minimum of $3,600 that goes towards finding a cure for Leukemia, Lymphoma, Myeloma and other blood-related diseases.

Each participant in a Team in Training event is assigned a hero or can choose a personal hero to train in his/her honor. Each hero is someone from the area or is someone we know that has been affected by a blood-related cancer. Please visit our hero page to meet the heroes for our event.

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 – and estimated 58, 300 deaths in 2003.

But, this fight is not hopeless…25 years ago, only 5% of children diagnosed with leukemia survived. Today, 85% of 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.