Jenni Davis's Team In Training Page
Racing to Save Lives
Welcome to my Team In Training home page. In doing this Triathlon, I have joined the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team in Training (TNT) organization, whose mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myelomas, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families while searching for that cure. This is an endurance length event because the fight against blood cancer is an endurance event. Thought you might like to hear about my race - nothing went quiet as expected, but then as any cancer patient can tell you nothing ever does. Due of a bacteria in the water, Disney offered the option to skip the swim, & I took it. (I’ve worked in healthcare too long.) So I started the bike at 8:30a.m. This portion of the race was fairly flat (very different from NC). Between miles 25 & 30, it seemed the longest 5 miles I’d ever ridden. As I rode I was thinking about 3 particular patients. I knew that for 2 of them the prognosis was not good. For the 3rd there seemed to be so much hope for a happier ending. Knowing that my efforts could help them & would definitely help future patients, I was able to keep going. Just when I thought the end was in sight I heard “whup-whup” - I had a flat. It was about mile 31 of 36, so I got off & pushed my bike until my TNT coach came to help me change my tire. With the flat I was on the bike for a little over 3 hours. I started my 10K, but in the middle it started to rain. Because of lightening the event ended early & I wasn’t allowed to finish the last 5K of my run-walk. While my event did not turn out quite like I expected, it was definitely an endurance event, & I am proud to have completed it in honor of my patients. Sadly, within a week of my triathlon all 3 of my patients had lost their fight with leukemia. I hope that the money I raised will mean that next time I race we will be so much closer to a cure.
