Rocky Mountain

720 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 500-S
Denver, CO 80246

TEAM Testimonials

Hear from our Alumni on what keeps them coming back...season after season!!!

"Hey! Thanks for asking about how it went! It was pretty crazy... but we all finished! It was a beautiful course...but really challenging! Thanks for everyone's support. TNT was AWESOME throughout the whole experience. I don't think I've ever been so happy to see purple and green in my life!" - Pam

"What a wonderful experience! The training, the weekend, the people, I cannot say enough or thank you and your staff enough! I was very hesitant to get involved and was very unsure of my abilities when I began the training. Your coaches, mentors and staff eased all those worries and frustrations. I was very proud to be part of TNT! I came away from the race very proud of myself as well and in awe of the $$$$ raised for such a great cause. I would like to continue to be involved either as a volunteer, mentor, mail stuffer...you name it." - Anon

"Thanks everyone for the kind words. I had this in mind as one of my goals early this spring, I didn't come close to breaking any speed records going up but I made it. One of my other goals was to do a Century. My only question at the first meeting was if I could meet with team training requirements. You folks have hooked me. I'm no Shakespeare, so I don't have the words to express my thanks to everyone on the team. Everyone has been so encouraging and you folks flat out inspire me with your dedication. I say thank you to someone who holds a door or brings me my order. It seems so inadequate, but it's all I know to say. Thank you." - From Team Hero, Mark

"Sadly, my father lost his battle with cancer on June 25th. His leukemia went to his brain and he got very sick in June and eventually his systems failed. It is important to me to continue to support the efforts towards finding a cure. LLS was incredibly supportive to my father as he and his team of doctors looked for alternative treatment options, and I'm proud to be associated with such an amazing group. His purple bracelet is with him in heaven and mine is a constant reminder of him!" - Marisa M.

"My real question is how do I fill my Saturday's now. After 4 months of getting out there to do all that hard work with such a wonderful group of people and then actually doing to whole 105 miles is a fantastic feeling. I now know why people get addicted. Great friends, getting fit and, most of all, raising money for a great cause, would get anyone hooked." - Gordon

"I've said it before and I find that I can't say it enough, you guys are truly heroic and you are all MY heroes. Your spirit of giving and determination just blows me away. Like I said, this ride was tough and it would have been so easy to let it defeat you before you even started it. Instead, you all went after it with all you had and just flat kicked it's butt. Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit, or even a lot, to reach a goal. In this case that suffering paid off in a big way. I really do love and appreciate all of you, MY TEAM!" - Dale

"Thanks for everything this season. Honestly, I?ve done two of these events, one with TNT and one without and training with TNT is so much better than training alone ? the entire team and staff made me look forward to getting myself out of bed early on a Saturday and showing up. You make this experience something I will never forget and something I would recommend to anyone who expresses the goal of a first marathon." ? Kirk

"I am very excited about the upcoming trip. Thank you for providing this opportunity which truly has been life changing for me. I have been touched by many and through the TNT program, hope to have brought blood cancer awareness to others, along with the power and results we can achieve by working together for this great cause." -Carolyn

"Hi - thank you for organizing another great TNT season. As with last year, the level of support was tremendous! I've run many races and the ones I've done with TNT are the only ones in which I've been a winner even before the race starts. Thanks again." - David

"I also just wanted to say thank you for all your help in general and everything you (and the other coaches) do for the team. For someone like myself who was a couch potato and who had never run more than a mile in her life to be able to do an Olympic distance triathlon just a year later, that says something special about Team in Training and especially about the coaches. So a giant THANKS for making everything fun and interesting and exciting so that I don't really mind getting up at 6am on a potentially rainy day to drive an hour to ride my bicycle!" - Kate

" Thank you so much for such a great weekend! TNT is the best, and I love that it includes raising funds to find a cure for blood cancers! You and Cindy did a great job over the weekend. We were quite the crew to keep track of, but you managed admirably! It's no wonder the Rocky Mountain chapter has such a great reputation! I look forward to volunteering with you and with TNT again. Have a great week of recovery" ? Mary

"I just want to let you know how amazing last weekend in San Diego was. It was great spending the weekend with everyone on the team, who were all there for the same reasons I was. The inspirational dinner was incredible and I definitely shed enough tears for the whole team throughout the weekend :-) both tears of sadness and joy... I am a sap! Completing my first full marathon was incredible and it really challenged me. It did hurt physically towards the end but knowing why I was there and knowing I had so many people thinking of me and supporting me is what kept me running. I also had many names on the back of my shirt which definitely helped me push through the pain. My mom was there from Arizona which was incredible too. The entire TNT experience has changed me forever and it came at a perfect time in my life. As much as I helped the cause by raising money, all of this helped me!! The Staff was great in San Diego and I just want to thank all of you for this incredible experience!! I am so glad that I am on the Fall team to run the Denver marathon! Thank you!"- Beth

"Thank you to everyone for such an amazing experience. I can't say enough about TNT and how much I enjoyed this opportunity! What an incredible organization and a wonderful bunch of athletes. Everyone's support yesterday is what got me to the finish line, tearing up along the way even (due to the support). I hope to be back in 2011 and share another training season with everyone. Despite the soreness I felt at the finish line and today (barely making it up and down the stairs without wincing), I am hooked. It's amazing to say I ran a marathon yesterday. Congratulations, everyone! And, Andy, you are a fantastic coach! Thank you for all of the encouragement this season." ? Kristen

"You guys did an awesome job of taking extremely good care of us during this season and especially this past weekend. I have an even better appreciation of all that goes on to put on an event of this magnitude, and really appreciate all that you do. Your smiles, welcoming greetings, hugs and willingness to answer a million questions over and over is awe inspiring! You must be very exhausted, but I hope you also have that wonderful feeling of a JOB WELL DONE!!! We have met so many wonderful, caring people thru TNT, and you guys are an example of and representative of the best folks in the world. Thank you and I look forward to many more seasons in the future. GO TEAM!!!" - Joan

"All of us who have been associated with Team in Training know that we, as individuals, are a small yet important part of this major movement that will slowly change the world of patients who are going through Leukemia & Lymphoma and other forms of cancer. We raised a lot of money and we are glad to be part of the process that will have more ?survivors? on this planet. All this is simply amazing, but the side of the story that is untold is ?what about us runners?? What does Team in Training do for us? I do not have words to express that and will only narrate a few instances:

1. THE PROCESS WORKS:

When all of us met on day 1 and ran the 1 miler, none of us believed we would run a full race. Today I realize that there is a proven process to this madness at TNT. The process is to build gradually and take each one of us to a comfort zone and finish. Yesterday, in the Marathon at Steamboat Springs 80% (of overall participant) finished the race. For our team it was 100%. As I went through the process, I did not always see how the training works. But on race day, I realized it does. It is a build-up. I ask all future runners/walkers to have faith in the process and to follow to the best of their capability.

2. THE SUPPORT SYSTEM IS AMAZING:
The office team of Cathy and Ashley, our super mentor Alison and our team Hero Sharon are always there to encourage us. The responsiveness of the staff is simply marvelous. Sharon?s thoughts and emails are always heartfelt and helped us to get reconnected and re-inspired. Our mentor Alison is simply the best. If I did not show up for training I got a friendly email enquiring if I was ok. If I did not make it two in a row there was a call. She was always there to guide us to the finish. (I will bet that rest of you too are biased about your Hero and Mentor, but to me, my hero and the mentor are the BEST).

3. RACE ORGANZITION:
To pull off an event this large without anyone having any issues to complain about is huge. Every TNT event was planned to perfection. The hotel arrangements, the dinner, the transportation, all were just perfect.

4. RACE DAY SUPPORT:
This is the part that surpassed my wildest expectations. Coach Mitch started us off with his version of a ?300-like? inspirational speech (reference to the movie "300"). Then he was patrolling the first 15 miles of the course with his bike like a cop on a mission. He would be there every few minutes to make sure I was ok and give me a few words of encouragement. He had all the goodies I needed and I started shedding my outer clothes off, he would put them in his bike trailer. Then he would be on the ground, ready with his camera, ready to take pictures of me as I ran through. He did 45 miles up and down the course on race day. (source: his GPS) Coaches Andrew and Tyler were doing the same in their areas of patrol. (The very fact I am not talking much about them does not mean their roles or contribution was any less. I will bet that there are team members who experienced their help the way I experienced coach Mitch). Then there is Coach Jen. She was there to grab each of us at between mile 1 and 2 and guide us across the finish the line. I was trying to do the math. There were 65 of us. Even if she guided 50 of us from mile 1 (and remember she had to go back and forth). That tells me that she did anywhere from 50 to 100 miles yesterday to support us. (Next time I suggest we have a gps on coach Jen to monitor her miles and have a TNT pool on who can guess the exact mile she runs for us)

The more I think of the other side of TNT, I have to say?Wow. I cannot think of any other place or team where the coaches and the support team will go this far for the team. Now I know why it is called TEAM IN TRAINING. I know personally I would have never got to go to bed with a marathon finisher's medal under my pillow without my team's support." - Steamboat Marathon Participant