Huh? Iron? As in IronMan??? Yup, that's right! We have really gone nuts and joined the TNT Iron Team! We recently celebrated our 15th Wedding Anniversary (8/31). So in trying to figure something "special" to give to the love of his life, Harold decides to buy Laarni a registration spot for IronMan Canada in 2012. You see these spots go on sale one year prior to each event. And, the spots usually sell out in 24 - 48 hours. Harold was ready with his credit card and secured both of them a spot!
Ok, so Laarni has done a couple of triathlons and Harold has done plenty of century bike rides...uh, but to go for an IronMan...2.4 mile open water swim, 112 mile bike ride and last but not least a full marathon (26.2 miles). That's a total of 140.6 miles! How in the world are we going to do that?
It's been two years since we've found Team in Training. It's a great organization that helps people train for an endurance event. But more importantly, we raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. We have lost too many people to cancer and specifically Harold's stepfather who we all called Uncle Joe. We remember the struggles he went through and finally succumbing to the horrible disease in late 2006. We had to do something in his honor! Now we try and raise funds for a lot of other people. People who we have met during our trainings. Yup, even people on our own team! We save people's lives by helping raise funds for the Cause. We didn't want to stop doing that!
So, this will be our third year to raise funds...but we knew that to motivate and inspire our friends and family to donate again, we would have to step it up ourselves. Well, what better way to step it up but to join TNT...but this time to do an IRONMAN! This will be our toughest challenge yet. This will test our will, our discipline and honestly our organizational skills! Having 4 children and juggling all of their homework and activities, and then to have to train for 9 months straight, 6 days a week...it will definitely test us! But we're up for the challenge. Nothing in life is easy and nothing compares to someone who has to fight cancer. This is the least we could do!
We hope that you'll continue to follow along our journey...we appreciate all the support that many of you have already provided. Please visit our Team DeGuzman TNT website at:
http://pages.teamintraining.org/sj/ironca13/teamdeguzman
The donations make a huge difference in people's lives and of course your words of encouragement help us tremendously to keep going!
Go Team! Go IRONTEAM!
