Thanks for visiting my fundraising page!

Those that are linked over here from Runner's World know Mickey and Cody. For the rest of you, here is Mickey's Blog.
http://deckapes.blogspot.com/

If you are coming here from my blog or from Runner's World, then you already know that I am getting ready to run my third marathon. I am really looking forward to this because we are going to have friends that I have never met coming in from all over the southeast. It will be great time to meet and put faces to the names and personalities that I have gotten to know through the forum on Runner's World.

However, all the preparation was feeling a bit empty because there has always been a philanthropic component to my marathon preparation.

I had my first real distance running training and ran the Chicago marathon in 2005 with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

My training and fund-raising was more personal when I ran in Houston in 2007. I ran for the American Cancer Society. My Dad had started treatment for colon cancer and a the son of a very good forum friend had suffered a recurrence of a very aggressive form of childhood cancer. So, I ran Houston for Dad and Cody. The starting line picture from that race is the picture that I use for my blog, and it is copied above.

Since that time, Dad has gone into remission, but Cody, Mickey, and their family are still fighting Cody's Neuroblastoma with everything they have.

Please help me support BAND OF PARENTS by making a donation. It's fast, easy, and secure.

Thanks so much for your support - and please don't forget to forward this page to any friends you think might be interested.