Team Leukemia

Over 105,000 Americans fall victim to the ravages of Leukemia each year and an estimated 59,200 will die. Contributing money to help fund research for a cure is a powerful step towards �kicking cancer out the door� and a powerful step toward watching Gage grow and prosper. Please make checks payable to the Leukemia Society. I would greatly appreciate any size financial contribution but any good vibes you can send my way will be most welcome as well! (yea Marcia! Thank you for the inspiration and support!!)

Stacey, post that really good letter you sent me. Full of important things. BTW, I sent my check to your address. They had another listed in that letter. You might want to correct it...or not. But, I really think it is worth posting. This is very important stuff and it is not just children who die from it - mom's and some very important older thinkers have also. We cannot afford to let this disease go unchallenged any longer! Please support Stacey's efforts. Yea Stacey! Anything I can do for you I will =)

Fundraising is going pretty well now... Thank you Marcia for the donation! Training has hit that difficult point where progress in speed and endurance are minimal over short periods of time. I knew to expect the lull and I'm trying to literally run through it. Tomorrow is my early a.m. team workout -- a speed strength training from 6-7am at a local high school. Gage is doing 'okay' I haven't been able to talk to him for awhile.

Another month has passed, Stacey...how near to your fund-raising goal are you? and how many walls are you still hitting? Are you really going to run a marathon?!.

thanks for asking... pretty far off still... I've got about a thouseand raised... a few thousand left to go... running wise I feel pretty on target I ran an easy eight miles yesterday with another TNT member... it was nice and comfortable and no knee soreness today at all... yes, yes, I am...

Sounds like we need to get the PR going. You have just till Dec 4th to raise the needed funds?

December 1st... and yes, I'm in the process of writing a letter to the CEO of our company to try and get some corporate sponsorship...

I am not sure how we can go about importuning the people at the Spring, but I am willing to entertain your thoughts on the subject. Keep us appraised of your progress so we know how much to worry.

I think it'll probably reslt in my filming a table dance and posting it on the Spring Cam for contributions!

OH MY !!! (I thought we were trying to stay out of trouble...!)

(...want me to dance with you?)

sure!

money still trickling in... my training is going well cross training since I hurt my knee again on the 11th. 14 miles trail running on Saturdays, off Sundays, cycling Mondays, 3miles Tuesdays, cycling Wednesdays, 3 miles Thursdays and either 4 miles running or a long cycling stint on Fridays... weight/strength training on my left leg to fix that knee issue... This Sunday I'll spice things up a bit by doing the Race for the Cure!

good luck, dear...let us know how you do, and more importantly, how your knee does.

the knee is feeling really fine *knocking on wood* I've been doing the strengthing exercises for awhile and really stretching well afterwards to keep good circulation up around that area especially. And with the arch inserts I've been relatively pain free!

Nothing is worse than shin-splints...well, there really are worse things, but they really hurt. Glad the arch supports work for you...they are in my shoes I hike in and ones in which I play tennis. (No, I'm not out there running, and if I took off too many more inches I would disappear!

had a GREAT 10 mile run in the very cold on Saturday and then did the Race FOr the Cure on Sunday. Sunday was quite the emotional experience... The race, for those who are unfamiliar, is the race to find a cure for breast cancer. Denver is now the 2nd largest Race for the Cure with over 40 THOUSAND people running! MOst have been directly affected by the disease, many are survivors and many have lost loved ones to breast cancer. All are running in celebration or in memory of someone with the disease or are running to help fund finding that cure. THe race is also about awareness. Check your breasts ladies... AND MEN! Breast cancer is NOT just a woman's disease... A real feel good and feel deeply event. I cried more than once just overwhelmed by the depth and strength and togetherness of it all...

Sounds terrific. Indeed, men do get it and can die from it just as women have...I know several survivors of this affliction, and I am checked with great regularity. My oldest sister had it and they got all of it with surgery what they did not get was the part that had spread to the brain...that is what killed her. Terrible stuff! Thanks for doing your part!

OK sent you and Terry checks - they actually go in the mail tomorrow. I shall confirm this with Email but I wish there was some way to get out the money for you and get you to this most important goal

hi mariciah how are u i loved u more plz send me at fmas@hugkiss.com

I just did...but you must tell us by which of your names we should address you. Do you like to be called Diego, Armando or Firsona? It makes conversations with you more personal and friendly. Thank you!

Thanks Marcia!!! {big hug}

(Big Hug to you, too) Please let me know when / if they arrive.

I certainly shall! Thanks so much.

Thanks Marcia! I'm not sure when the check arrived but I arrived home yesterday and it was there! I'm still WAY short on funds so calling all potential Team Leukemia Supporters... please consider donating to the Leukemia Society... a MOST worthy organization

Thanks, Stacey! We should get out on Porch and make a pitch for this. Leukemia is no respecter of age or status. It is NOT just a childhood affliction, and even if it were, that alone is enough to garner support, one would think. Thinking how to get support (I am perilously short of good ideas at the moment!)

Saturday was the biggest run before the marathon... now I start tapering. My running buddy and I ran a fairly swift 20.6 miles. I took an OTC anti-inflammatory before the run and I was pain free all during. A lot of stiffness Sunday but no joint pain and I feel great today! This was an real accomplishment especially in the emotional sense... six more miles is inconsequential!

Excellent news...and I gather you also did not throw up. Always happy to hear good things when I have seen some tragic things at the Ironman Triathlon. It sounds like you did all your prep work right, and I am really proud of your accomplishment. A marathon is always against yourself, is it not? (Unless you are one of those pro runners who go from one event to the next all year.) Take a bow, Dear *applause*

I'll curtsie (sp?) today (wearing a skirt)... Thanks for the kudos Marcia... I am rather impressed with my conditioning at this point. Nope, no vomiting. In fact, when we finished, I really thought I could go on for awhile longer... a good sign to be sure! The soreness is to be expected, running long distances is simply fatiguing on your body... Woo WOO!

Takes about a week to fully recover from an Triathlon, so I know it will be a few days before you are fit again. Besides, what a lovely excuse (if one were needed) to have Brandon rub and massage you all over...even in places not involved with the actual run?! (Is it pronounced Tih NEE ahn ov ... or TIH nee ahn ov...or Tih nee AHN ov...or some other way?)

Tin yawn ov... I ran 3.5 miles yesterday and everything feels great again!

stressed on the "yawn"...? Thanks (I like to say it in my mind the right way) Great news about your being in such fit order. Watch out Honolulu!!!

The only condition I haven't trained in (but have been told to expect) is rain...

You will probably start at 5am. At that hour we get gentle warm makai showers drifting mauka (off-the-ocean showers drifting toward the mountains). Enjoy it. The sun comes up just a little while later and it gets more humid until the sun burns off the residual rain. Unless we have a storm front coming through (always a possibility in December) your rain will not last long. You will experience our soft, warm gentle "pineapple mist" which we call 'dust control".

BTW, There are several updating Hawaiian weather maps in Geo (or News since some people find Geo unfriendly or something...How unfriendly can a place be when Wolfie scans her latest jewelry and we discuss our collection of goodies?!) Anyway, you can scroll back to find them but you will have to get out of telnet to do it, of course! I should think wet shoes would be the biggest problem causing blisters.

For all the scoop on this event - The Honolulu Marathon's official website: http://www.honolulumarathon.org/

As many of you are aware, I leave tomorrow morning to participate in the Honolulu marathon. I am running to raise money for the Leukemia Society. Thank you to those of you who have supported me with encouragement and kind words. A special thanks to those of you who have donated money to the Leukemia Society to help fund the finding of a cure for this disease. Although I am still shy of my fundraising goal of $4200 by a considerable amount, the money seems trivial compared with the news I received today. Gage Risley, my seven year-old patient honoree, is in Children's Hospital in Denver right now and will have a bone marrow transplant tomorrow morning. He has gone through seven days of chemotherapy to eradicate good and bad cells from his body and hopefuly the new marrow he receives tomorrow will produce new cancer free cells to replace the old. Gage has not been responding well to treatment and the marrow transplant is a last resort. Please keep Gage and his family in your thoughts... Again, thank you to all of you who have contributed to making other more aware of this disease and to help find a cure. If you care to make a tax deductible contribution to the Leukemia Society, or know someone who would, please send checks (made payable to The Leukemia Society) to me at: Stacey Tinianov 5864 S Huron St Littleton, CO 80120 Thanks, Stace

Does this look familiar, Stace? It is the fireworks at the beginning of the Honolulu Marathon (which you just might have been too preccupied to have seen) The rain isn't as apparent in this view of things. I heard on the local news this morning that 2400 participants were running for Leukemia research. Excellent!

Note the bottom of the picture there are two wide bands with a narrow band running up the midddle of it...That is Ala Moana Boulevard and those are all of the runners at the start of the race. The median strip is being used as race stations for various needs. It is a great shot! Where's Waldo? Where's Satcey??

uhoh...I'm in BIG trouble - mistyped her name. Where's Stacey?!

Here she is!!! Official Results Stacey Tinianov #10113 of Littleton CO, USA Time: 05:19:19 Overall: 8,442 Gender: 2,239 Women Division: 535 (age 26)

BTW, there were 26,724 entries and of those 21,156 finished the race. Hearty congratulations to all who participated and a new appreciation for Stacey's finish in her first Marathon. Brava! (All of this information plus lots of photos are available at the official web site

Check out all of the photos, trivia and stats: Honolulu Marathon

Here's what it took to run last year's marathon: 1,950,000 cups 125,000 pounds of ice cubes (63.5 tons) 175,000 Mother's Oatmeal cookies 70,000 sponges 30,000 crisp apples 8,000 bottles of Amino Vital 1,000 hot dogs with chili & rice 10.1 acres of tents (444,400 sq. feet) 3,215 feet of television cables 7,550 feet of communication lines 7,750 feet of electrical cables 14,850 feet of rope/plastic barriers 2,670 feet of flagging tape 1,420 feet of steel wire rope rigging 465 portable toilets 4,500 rolls of toilet paper two 20-foot urinals 9,500 33-gallon trash bags 220,000 small safety pins 10,100 feet of red nylon fencing 7,500 feet of 30-ply string 775 fencing posts 800 feet of steel tie wire 800 pieces of nylon tie-wrap one 150-foot single span, 12-ton bridge 2 electrically powered trucks from HECO 55 vans & trucks - from pick-up to semi-trailer 9 Conex containers 665 eight-foot tables 650 folding chairs 4 sets of bleachers 12 man-lifts 6 snorkel boom trucks 2 announcer towers 310 off-duty police officers & 35 solo bikers 185 full-size buses 396 banners/signage of various sizes 35 11-foot-tall mile/kilometer markers 1 large double-faced race clock for Finish 22 medium-size race clocks for the course 60 telephones 12 fax machines 180 medical cots 129 posts for the Finish Line chute 20 international flags 800 sq. feet of plush Finish Line carpeting 12,000 sq. feet of plastic sheeting 3,350 rolls of film, 36 exposures each 12 massive trash dumpsters 18 portable photo stands 5 portable electrical generators 3,750 traffic cones 2,125 flasher barricades 450 delineators 18 arrow boards on trailers 8 electronic message boards on trailers 2,325 No Parking signs 125 traffic signs 22 floodlights 3 searchlights 9,452 volunteers

Here is the official photograph which shows more of the 26,000+ entrants massed at the start of the event. Her finishing photo will not be available for view until December 22nd (I will keep the url a secret if you wish, Stace!)

Woo Woo! We finished! And no, you cannot tell how WET it was out there... pouring, pouring, pouring the whole time! I ran with my running buddy and she was very conservative with her energy at the start... it was her first one so certianly understandable... but by the end, she agreed with me... tis better to run a bit faster and not have to spend so damn long out there on the course! We had a blast, especially tromping around in the mud at the finish! The sun finally came out yesterday so I spent the day at the beach... slept in the plane overnight and arrived home this a.m. just before 10. Tired, tired, tired... Oh, BTW, the answer to the Where's Stacey? pic... she was still in line for the Porto-Let when the fireworks were going off! Thanks for all the publicity Marcia and I'd LOVE to know what the url for finishing pics is! Haven't gotten an update on Gage yet, I'll post here when I do...

Welcome back to the cold world out there. Delighted to know you were so successful and had a great time. I did not do any rain dances so I am not sure who is responsible for that rain, but today it is sunny here and I am happy to see it. Now you understand why we have a mildew problem in Paradise! I will email you the url for that photo page ... it just might not be something you want everyone to see...!

looking like hell after 26.2 miles sure wouldn't embarass me... post at will!

Everybody loves you already - you clean up real good, as they say. I will still pass it by you first...! Or put in the conference where people stand on the corners of our towels hoping to expose us and good stuff like that?! *Hugs* for accomplishing something I never will and at an age I had only an infant geologist to show for my efforts.

Come to think of it, if you did not look like hell after 26.2 miles of running, you would be highly suspect! Are you into triathlon stuff?

I've done one mini-tri (the Danskin) but I think more would be fun. My big obstacles with triathlons are: I am not a strong swimmer, I don't like cold water! I may do another mini-tri this August in Boulder when the weather is warm but I'll probably do another marathon for Team Leukemia first -- Steamboat Springs in June!

today I'm mentally psyched to do more but in reality my body needs a bit of a rest... a couple weeks of easy exercise before bumping up the training again. in February I'd be ready for another but that's Brandon's big month (the Iditabike in Alaska) and there are really no endurance running events here in the month of February

The water in Kona is about 75�F (23.8 C)... you get all wizzled before you get chilled! I did not realize there was an Iditabike. Do dogs pull his bike instead of a sled?! (Please, hold the rotten tomatoes!)

*grin* he's probably gonna wish dogs were pulling his bike by the end! 48 hour time limit, 100 miles of ice biking... I'm gonna be hanging out in Big Lake with some rented snowshoes I think!

At least when you have dogs with you and you are freezing you can sleep with them. It has to be cold comfort with a bicycle for a snuggling companion on the arctic ice. I was complaining about being too warm today. I think it is feeling much better after thinking of all that cold darkness. Make sure your snowshoes come with cleats!

Just checked your finisher photographs (there are 3) and you are just adorable. I would be happy starting out on the race course looking that fine. Just wanted you to know you are now famous and I have your pix saved on my computer just in case Y2K eats them elsewhere!

*grin* I saw them finally... they mailed me proofs!

You are totally adorable and not even stringy-haired or sweaty. Stacey, I am tired of your being gorgeous all the time. Just lucky you are irresistable otherwise or I'd really be feeling hostile about now. Now, go blow that green gunk out of your sinuses and join the rest of us mortals!

thanks for all the complimenting... my hair WAS stringy... you just can't tell from those pictures! the snot has formed a solid block in my sinuses... won't come out no matter how much hot tea and water I drink!

Nope...breathe over a steaming kettle with some menthol in it. Hate to suggest nose drops or decongestants at this point, but you might like to relieve some of that pressure before it backs up into your ears!!! *healing hugs* (Sorry, but with that smile on your face I did not notice strings or anything - just your radiant happiness. Incredible!)

Have you heard how much Team Leukemia raised for Leukemia Research? We need to applaud your efforts! How's that snotty cold of your doing? Gone, I hope!

Congrats again! I admire you very much for what you achieved, Stacey. But I seem to remember I told you that. I'm not sure, tho - now I am. ;=} Against the sinus blockage: You want to inhalate salt water to loosen up that stuff. Boiling hot water in a pot, pour much salt in it, towel over it, and your head beneath that towel. (Uh, don't dip that pretty face in the hot water, that makes autsch, so they say...) Inhalate as long as you can take it. Take a break. Go at it again. Be environmentally friendly: have B. recycle the concoction as cooking water for some really good italian pasta (Buitoni). As we all know, the wheat stuff pasta is made from contains the same stuff that's in chocolate which creates the release of all these beautiful endorphines. My favorite cold remedy - heisser Grog, a northern or sailors drink. Very hot water in a mug, some nice rum in it (=a load). A little sugar if you like. Stir. Drink while hot (but don't scorch yer throat). Move towards sleeping facility, crash & enjoy a night of restful sleep. You feel up to any heroic deed the next morning (at least I always do). I don't need to mention vitamins. Since you are such a sports person, you know what a glass of fresh fruit juice works (wonders, that is - just in case you forgot). With all good wishes, A.

thank you! The cold faded very quickly and oddly enough it was B who suffered through weeks of congestion. No word on Gage still...