this is what i send out to people in case they might be interested in donating with all my information. feel free to copy it and send out to anyone that you think would donate. any help i can get is great! thanks

Hello,

Recently, Emily Lester, a young and extraordinary woman lost her battle to leukemia. Her story inspired me to look into ways I could help raise awareness and funds for blood cancers. So, when I found out about LLS’ Team in Training, I thought it was a great way to incorporate my love of running into my goal of helping fund research for people like Emily with blood cancers.

Please take a moment and read over this. I am challenged to raise at least $4200 for research for blood cancers and I’d appreciate it if you’d help me out!

Every ten minutes, another child or adult dies from leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma.

An estimated 823,349 Americans are presently living with blood cancer.

The Cause:

With the help of your support, the five-year survival rate for leukemia has tripled in the past 46 years. That’s why I’ve joined The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team in Training. The goal of LLS is to raise funds to help accelerate the cures for blood related cancers. The money that is donated goes towards research, patient services, and raising public awareness. In the past twenty years since Team in Training was formed, people that have already participated in Team in Training have raised more than $800 million to support blood cancer research and patience services.

How you can help:

Please support my participation in Team in Training and help advance LLS’s mission. Make a donation (of any amount)—it’s tax deductible!

• Online donations: http://pages.teamintraining.org/sun/nikesf08/hpierson

• Mail a check made out to “The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society”

7210 3^rd Ave. N.

St. Petersburg, FL 33710

• Corporate matching: http://www.matchinggifts.com/lls/

In addition, you can also pass this message and my fundraising page on to anyone that might be interested in supporting this wonderful cause. No matter the sum, every donation counts.

Please make donations before September 19^th, 2008.

For more information on Emily’s battle, check out her journal: http://www.caringbridge.org/fl/emilylester/index.htm

Thank you so much for your support!

Hilary Pierson

(727) 347- 6050

justabitcrazy@gmail.com

P.S.

Here’s a quick update on our progress thus far:

As of August 2^nd, we have raised $1935. We need to raise $2100 by August 8th and the full amount by the beginning of October. We’ve had three fundraisers so far with all of them being successes. We’ve kicked off our raffle for a $50 gas card that August 23^rd. Together we’ve also run about 200 miles in our training efforts with our longest run being around 8 miles this past weekend and our first 10 mile run coming up. This whole experience has already been extremely challenging and rewarding so far and we both cannot wait to see what else is in store.

today was a relaxing day. dylan, erica, and i went to the beach, and then came back to my house and just hung around while it rained. i also got an email from ted gillette, and that made me really excited! he said that country day and innovision were donating 150 dollars total! that money in combination with the 150 from the top dog triathalon, connie, and yard sale will put me at $832! yayyy!! 

katie and i just went running. on our run i ran into the treasure island bridge, as in like sideswiping it. my elbow now has a “battle wound” as katie said. it made a loud *thud* when i hit it. i think they should redesign the bridge not to have those stickey-outty things anymore. they are a hazard to my personal safety! but we ran 4 miles, and it was nice and gloomy. a runner’s dream! also, in the beginning of our run in our neighborhood, we saw a runner girl probably high school age and i wanted to say hello to her and then we saw her pass us and i said hello! and she waved and made a weird look like i was crazy and kept running. it made me so happy to see another girl my ageish running in our neighborhood and i felt like i should welcome her and say hello to a fellow runner!! katie made fun of me. =[

i hope to go running tomorrow morning. i’ve been dogsitting all week (meaning i have to get up around 8-9ish) and i’m trying to motivate myself to go running around 6:30 to 7ish and then go take care of the dogs, and then back to bed! but it’s only been successful on monday…

anyway, this friday we’ve got our booth outside of leslie’s store in gulfport for the artwalk and then sunday is the triathalon. i’ll keep you posted on how they go! 

shower time, byee~

katie and i love this running commercial.