A Little Bit of TNT History

As many of you know, Team In Training (TNT) has been around for about 24years now. And while each of the more then 540,000 participants have their own stories and drive for why they participate in TNT, many of you probably do not know the original story that started the movement.

Georgia Cleland was two years old at the time she was diagnosed with Leukemia. At this time the survival rate was about 50%. When her father first heard the news he began to fundraise for LLS in the hopes of finding better research to help save his daughter and the other children like her that they had met. But no matter how much he raised it never seemed to be enough.

   

So her father and a few of his friends decided to run a marathon raising money for each mile they ran. And thus, Team In Training was born.

    

Today TNT has raised over $1.2 billion for LLS and its missions. Georgia has participated in many ½ marathons including the San Diego and Washington DC Rock ‘n’ Roll half marathons.

What’s Your Story?

For more info on Georgia’s story and TNT history click

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/georgia-cleland/post_3439_b_1567673.html