We're doing it again!

First of all, last night's spin was extra amazing because Molly was able to join me. At this point its almost comical because there were about five people in the class, but hey, I'll keep going as long as they keep having the class. I see Molly more than anyone, but we don't really ever get a chance to hang out. I'm really looking forward to the two of us having a drink and eating nachos or something. Doesn't that sound good?

We decided to do another mock-tri tomorrow morning. We're going to add some distance to the swim and to the run. It should be fun. I'm hoping that Pete will come out again and hang out by our stuff, and maybe take a couple of pictures. He took quite a few last weekend, but my ego is too delicate and I couldn't post them all.

Twenty two days to go. I can do this. I can. Why? Because I've committed myself to it and to raising money for LLS.

An estimated 138,530 people in the United States will be diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma in 2008. New cases of leukemia, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma account for 9.6 percent of the 1,437,180* new cancer cases diagnosed in the United States this year.

*Source: Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program 1975-2005, National Cancer Institute, 2008.

And the reality check is that Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma will cause the deaths of an estimated 52,910 people in the United States this year. These blood cancers will account for nearly 9.4 percent of the deaths from cancer in 2008 based on the 565,650 total cancer-related deaths.

Every ten minutes, another child or adult is expected to die from leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma. This statistic represents nearly 145 people each day, or six people every hour.

Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under the age of 20.