Bruce Cleland after finishing the 1988 NYC Marathon. Photo: Team in Training
In 1988, Bruce Cleland got a team together to train for the New York City Marathon and to raise money to support leukemia research. Who would have know Cleland and his team would be starting a huge movement of charity racing and training to fight cancer!
In the January 2013 issue for Competitor Magazine, Cleland is featured in a story that describes the steps he took to raise money for the Westchester/Hudson Valley Chapter of LLS after his baby daughter, Georgia, was diagnosed with Leukemia. Bruce and his team of 38 runners raised $322,000 for LLS. From this effort, Team in Training was born. Twenty-five years later, TNT has prepared more than 570,000 athletes who have raised more than $1.32 billion for the Leukemian & Lymphoma Society!
Go Team!
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