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No Quit in My Sis – Running for a Cure!

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Lewis_2862 profileHappy 4th of July! Quick update on our fundraising efforts to support The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and cancer research:

Training Update –
I’ve been doing lots of hill work to get ready for the upcoming races and I just ran 8 miles on this beautiful afternoon… and I have some good endorphins going right now! Tomorrow promises to be even better running weather so I’m spending Independence Day doing a 50-ish mile training run…yea I know, “training” run! It will be at Oak Openings park which is one of my favorite places to run. Come out and join me if you can!
 
Getting ready for the Eastern States 100 on August 16th and the Oil Creek 100 on October 11th…has been tougher than I thought it would be. I think it’s more mental than physical…this is the earliest in the year training season for me ever. I’m a little behind where I think I should be so tomorrow will be telling. Finding the time and the energy to get out and run over the last few weeks has been a struggle. But, we’re going to keep on keeping on! Send lots of good vibes for strong legs! :-)

Honoree Update –
My friend George Evanoff is doing well. He is already finishing chemo and radiation and looking into some clinical trials. Keep your fingers crossed! I took him to church last Sunday (he can’t drive due to the surgery so I get to play chauffeur once in a while!) and he was cracking jokes and is highly optimistic…there’s no quit in George!

My sister Elizabeth had her chemo delayed a little bit and should start next week…and that will last several months. Then she has several years of meds…fun stuff…and she expects her hair to be gone by the end of August…I told her “bald is beautiful!” I have a feeling she’s going to embrace her baldness…no quit in my Sis either!

Please keep them both in your prayers!

Donor Update –
Big Woohoo! to our early donors Jenn Wenzke, long time Honoree Andrea Loch, and Deb Yeagle! Thank you Ladies! I’ll be thinking of you and all of our Honorees …162 to date…all day tomorrow while I am on the trail. You keep me going!

If you have a family member or friend with cancer or lost to cancer that I can run for, please send me their name and their story.  I would be honored to run for them!

It takes more than one person to make up a team and that’s why I’m asking you to donate to my TNT fundraising page!  Your donation will help fund treatments through LLS that save lives every day; like immunotherapy’s that use a person’s own immune system to kill cancer. Every single donation helps save a life with breakthrough therapies such as these!

I need your help to reach my $10,000 fundraising goal for cancer research! Please consider a donation.  We need all the help we can get to fight the good fight.  Thank you!

You can donate at:  http://pages.teamintraining.org/noh/RoadRun14/ealewis

Run Steady, Run Strong!
Ernie

Running for a Cure!

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It’s that time again!Lewis_2862 profile I am on a mission-to help find cures and more effective treatments for blood cancers and all cancers. To accomplish that mission, I’m running 2 special races this year in Honor of 2 special people…as well as running for all of my Honorees!…and doubling my annual fundraising goal to $10,000!

My 2 special Honorees this year are my friend George Evanoff and my sister Elizabeth Lewis-Smith. Both were recently diagnosed in the last couple of months, George with a brain tumor and Liz with breast cancer. Both have had surgery and George started chemo and radiation treatments a couple of weeks ago and Liz starts chemo next week. They are two of the hardest working, most positive, can-do attitude people I know…they are fighters and doing well!

For them and all my Honorees, I am running the Eastern States 100 on August 16th and the Oil Creek 100 on October 11th…two very tough races for two very tough individuals! And in the middle of all that, on September 27th, I will be supporting The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the good fight by running the Akron Marathon…all in all, 226.2 race miles for a cure! Woohoo!

Through all of these races and many long training days over the next few months I will be carrying my Honoree list made up of friends and family with cancer and lost to cancer. The list includes Herb Landis, Paula Massey, my friend Rodney Cundiff – brain tumor survivor, Judy Evanoff (George’s wife!) – lost to melanoma, my uncle Jack Connor – colon cancer survivor, my Mom – breast cancer survivor and many others…162 to date. It is my honor and privilege to run for all of my Honorees. When the miles get long and lonely, I remember their struggle and they keep me going!

It takes more than one person to make up a team and that’s why I’m asking you to donate to my TNT fundraising page! By participating as a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) TNT, I am raising funds to help find cures and ensure access to treatments for blood cancer patients.

Your donation will help fund treatments through LLS that save lives every day; like immunotherapy’s that use a person’s own immune system to kill cancer. Every single donation helps save a life with breakthrough therapies such as these!

I need your help to reach my $10,000 fundraising goal! Please make a donation in support of my efforts with Team In Training and help advance the research for cures for all! It won’t be easy…it never is…but it will be worth it!

If you have a family member or friend with cancer or lost to cancer that I can run for, please send me their name and their story. I would be honored to run for them!

Please consider a donation. We need all the help we can get to fight the good fight. Thank you!

Donate at: http://pages.teamintraining.org/noh/RoadRun14/ealewis

Run Steady, Run Strong!

No Running…Lots of Ketchup!

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ircHaven’t run in 2 weeks…been resting the knee which I tweaked 6 weeks ago at the Oil Creek 100 and then ran 2 more marathons over the next 30 days…yep, crazy idiot stuff which qualifies me for the IRC, Idiot Running Club, (a real club…thinking of joining)… but it was for a fundraiser, $4500, to support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and cancer research…worth every mile!

So, the last 2 weeks with no miles…yesterday tried a couple of miles walk/jog…did ok but not great, so maybe another week…but what’s weird is that I feel strangely ok with not running…

Part of it may be that I: ketchup

    • logged nearly 1700 miles to get ready for the races…might have overdone it
    • am finally getting out of Marathon Brain – kind of like when you hit the wall but carried over to real life…you can’t do the math, can’t remember where you were going…very embarrasing
    • am finally catching up on 6 months of procrastination…more like 8
    • am eating cookies again…and pizza…and Ketchup! :-)

Found this quote…only logged a couple of 100 mile weeks…but it seemed appropriate:

“If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want — Why? Because (a) you’ll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you’ll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.” –Don Kardong

Working on next year’s training schedule… I think I hear a cheese burger calling my name!  :-)

Update and Michael – Kick-off to Fight the Good Fight!

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Lewis_2862 profileUpdate!
Ran the Glass City Marathon yesterday with lots of rain, great volunteers, and some awesome runners.  Made my goal of new best GCM time of 3:38:42 which was 4:16 faster than my previous time set way back in 2006!  Don’t feel so old today!  Woohoo!

That’s one race down, 2 to go…for my Honorees…for LLS…for a cure! Go Team!  If you missed it, check out the plan.

Next race is the North Country 50 Miler on August 24th so ultra-marathon training starts today!

Fundraising Update
Thanks to Liz Schier, Dave Schlaudecker, Deb Spero, Karen Landis, and Steve Grindle and the staff at Champion Credit Union for early donations and pledges for the cause.  You guys are awesome!  We are on our way!

Honoree Update
We are adding Michael Warren to our Honoree list for our friend Jessica Blattner.  Here is what she shared:
“…my nephew Michael Warren in Dayton who suffers from lymphoma after being diagnosed about a year ago. He’s undergone many rounds of chemo so far and the prognosis isn’t good due to his on-going infections….but he’s gotten cleared enough for a bone marrow transplant in the next month and has his match. It’s grim based on the health he’s in and withering away of his body and strength. However, it’s his only real hope and he’s prepared to fight hard. He’s only 28. He was a full time airman at Wright Patterson AFB in the aerospace medicine field when he was diagnosed. Michael was always a star athlete, very successful in soccer. He misses it a lot. He loves sports, the Cincinnati Reds & OSU anything.

He ended up with some gastrointestinal issues through all of the chemo, developed a fissure and it got infected, the infection spread and went to his blood I believe….it all kept getting bad. As soon as he’d get strength there’d be a setback. A couple months ago he underwent a couple surgeries including a reversible colostomy among some other gastro things. He’s in remission with maintenance chemo ongoing. It’s been quite the road, and he plowed through and worked at the base as long as he possibly could in the early months. He was told by the transplant dr that he was not ready to handle it and it kept getting moved back, and back, and back. Then just a couple wks ago he was told no again by the transplant dr. A no that was final. It left him with about a 20% chance of living without this bone marrow. His oncologist went to bat for him believing that couldn’t be the final answer. After some more reviewing and consulting they agreed to go forward and Michael wants to fight. His parents are bracing for a big what if. He’s not as stable ideally as he should be to endure this. As you know a bone marrow transplant is agonizingly hellish. They have to go through the re evaluation of his donor again bc it’s been so many months. He’s not giving up though. And he lives life FULL. He’s moving and active and doing anything that his body allows him to. He and Lexy were at a reds game the other day…..he’s a fantastic guy who reminds us all what to do every day to capture every single solitary moment we can.”

Keep Michael in your prayers as well as all of our 152 Honorees so they know that we are with them every single solitary moment!  Fight the good fight Baby!

Finally, we need your help to reach our $5,000 fundraising goal!  Please make a donation in support of all of our efforts with Team In Training and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to help advance the research for cures for all!  It won’t be easy…it never is…but it will be worth it!

You can donate online at: http://pages.teamintraining.org/noh/detroit13/ernestlewis

If you have a family member or friend with cancer or lost to cancer that I can run for, send me their name and their story.  I would be honored to run for them!

And, thank you for your support… Run Steady, Run Strong!

Fear is a question…

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“Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.” – Marilyn Ferguson

Fear is the signal…nightrunning
to ask a question
to focus
that there may be walls
that there may be opportunity
to change
to step in and explore

Whether one mile or a hundred miles, face your fear!

Kick-off to Fight the Good Fight!

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Lewis_2862 profileIt’s that time of year again!  I am on a mission to help find cures and more effective treatments for blood cancers…and all cancers. To accomplish that mission, I’m running 3 special races this year in memory of 3 special people…as well as running for all of my Honorees…all 151 of them! Honorees2013

Our 3 special Honorees are Herb Landis, Marcia Housel, and Paula Massey who each lost their battle with cancer in the last few months. I knew each of them and they made a huge difference in my life and in the lives of many others. For them and all my Honorees, I am running the Glass City Marathon on April 28th (just a week away), the North Country 50 Miler on August 24th and the Oil Creek 100 on October 5th…yes, 176.2 race miles in all and another 1,500 training miles just to get ready!  I’ve run each of these races in years past and my goal is to run each one faster than ever before!

And to top it all off on October 20th, I will be supporting other TNT volunteers and fundraisers as a Coach for TNT at the Detroit Free Press Marathon. My job will be to help and support other TNT runners as they make it to the finish line! Many of them will be first time marathoners as well as first time fundraisers…true heroes! Woohoo!

Through all of these races and many long training days over the next 5 months I will be carrying my Honoree list made up of friends and family with cancer and lost to cancer. The list includes Herb, Marcia, and Paula, as well as my friend Rodney Cundiff – brain tumor survivor, Judy Evanoff – lost to melanoma, my uncle Jack Connor – colon cancer survivor, my Mom – breast cancer survivor and many others…151 in all. It is my honor and privilege to run for all of my Honorees. When the miles get long and lonely, they keep me going!

I am participating in these sports endurance events as a member of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team In Training. Like the other members of TNT, I will be raising funds to help find cures and better treatments for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma…and ultimately for all cancers. I’m improving the quality of my life by running and participating and with your support, we can help improve the quality of life for cancer patients and their families as well as remember those we have lost.

We need your help to reach our $5,000 fundraising goal! Please make a donation in support of my efforts with Team In Training and help advance the research for cures for all!  It won’t be easy…it never is…but it will be worth it!

You can donate online at: http://pages.teamintraining.org/noh/detroit13/ernestlewis

If you have a family member or friend with cancer or lost to cancer that I can run for, send me their name and their story.  I would be honored to run for them!

Finally, I will be posting training and fundraising updates here on my blog.  You can subscribe for email notices and please check out the donation page link above!

Run Steady, Run Strong!

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