Shelley Riehn

Welcome!

Thank you for stopping by my Team in Training personal website!

I have decided to chronical my fundraising and training journey to the 2007 Country Music 1/2 Marathon.

Use the links on the left to check out my progress!

Will you become a part of my Team?

As part of my participation with Team in Training I have pledged to raise $1,700.00 by April 1st, 2007.

Please click here to start supporting Shelley and her Team in Training efforts.

Track my progress as I raise funds for Leukemia & Lymphoma research, and train for the 1/2 Country Music Marathon in Nashville this April.

In early December 2006, I committed to become part the TNT (Team in Training) to help fight blood cancers. Blood cancers affect 85,000 Americans a year. With a history of cancer in most branches of my family tree, I understand the pain and loss that can be involved when a whole family has to fight these diseases. Let's make sure that those fighting today, are not fighting alone.

So why me? I can honestly say, I do not think I had even run more than one mile in my life up until this point! After training in earnest for most of my life in a pool, I wanted to get back and be apart of something - a TEAM. With TNT I feel I can not only make improvements for myself, but for the well being of so many others.  For a long time I have been meaning to be more, and get more "involved" with donating my time, money and skills to the many worth while causes in the world. But there were so many causes and so little time, I failed at starting my course of action. Now that I have found Team in Training I have no excuses.  Now I am doubly motivated to complete my fund raising and running goals, and every day, the one drives the other.