Posts Tagged ‘The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’

Jen’s Big Race Weekend

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Jennifer Fidelman is leaving for a few days to run in The 5th Annual Nation’s Triathlon To Benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. She’s been training for a while now, even denying herself some of the yummy treats we have during our office lunches for the past few months. I thought it would be nice tell her story before she leaves for Washington D.C. to join 6,000+ other athletes for the big race.

Jennifer has been training for The Nation’s Triathlon for about five months. Her workout schedule is intense: she’s training six days a week which includes a coached swim every Wednesday and an ocean swim every Saturday. Saturdays are also when she does her “brick” workouts where she trains for two disciplines back-to-back. She’s been training so hard that she’s the Mayor of her gym on Foursquare and she has the Swimmies badge!

Of course I had to know about her diet! She’s started hydrating for the race already to help prepare. Her food schedule for the next few days looks like this:

  • Day before: Lots of carbs, including the “Inspiration Dinner” with lots of pasta
  • Day of the race: Her coach’s mantra is “Nothing new on race day” so that isn’t going to be a day where she’s trying new food. She’s going to go with some peanut butter and bread and maybe a hard-boiled egg in the morning and then some energy bars for during the race. (She is the energy bar queen; she was rattling off names of bars I’ve never heard of!)
  • Post-race: Party time where she can celebrate with her team by pigging out and dancing!

Most importantly, using e-mails and Facebook (even Facebook ads!) to reach out to her network of friends, Jennifer successfully raised $3,000 for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society; since she started training for races five years ago, she’s raised over $20,000 for the organization.

To read more about Jennifer’s motivation, or to continue donating to support her training and the cause, you can visit her fundraising page through Team in Training.

Join us in wishing Jennifer (and her entire team) luck with her race in D.C. this weekend!

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Adventures with Jen

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Last Sunday I participated in the 10th Annual LA River Ride. It was a 70-mile ride from Griffith Park to Long Beach and back. It was definitely not the most scenic route through LA and I’m not quite sure that there was ever a “river.” I did however see (and smell) cookie factories, warehouses, abandoned buildings, the LA County jail, incredible graffiti art, horses, a train, and oh yes, the Long Beach Harbor (home to Gunn/Jerkens)!  I consumed four bottles of Powerade®, at least eight PowerBars® and a variety of other “endurance foods.” My post race meal consisted of matzah ball soup and a salami sandwich – yumm!  It was long, hard and yes I did complain along the way, but at the end of the day I realized how very lucky I am… and how lucky we all are! I’m fortunate to be healthy enough to do this kind of training and to be able to give back in such a significant way.

As you may or may not know, I’ve been doing triathlons (swim, bike, run) as part of the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team in Training program for the past five years.

Since this is my fifth year training and fundraising for the cause, I’ve decided to kick it up a notch. In addition to the Nation’s Tri (1-mile swim, 26-mile bike and 6.2-mile run), which I’ll be completing with the team on September 12th in Washington DC, I’m committed to completing my first half Ironman (1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike and 13.1-mile run) and possibly a full Ironman next year. I refuse to put the Ironman distances in writing – it’s way too intimidating.

As we say at the end of every practice:  “GO TEAM on three, GO TEAM on three …One, two three – GO TEAM!!”

Click here to donate or track my progress!

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