Team in Training
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Team in Training, also known by the acronym TNT, is an endurance sports training program business. The program provides training to run or walk a full marathon or half marathon or participate in a triathlon or century (100-mile) bike ride. In exchange for receiving professional coaching, support, event fees and transportation costs, team members raise funds to help support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
The program was founded in 1988 by Bruce Cleland, a resident of Rye, New York whose daughter Georgia was a leukemia survivor. He organized a team of 38 runners who trained as a group to run the New York City Marathon and raised over US$322,000 in the process. (Cleland would later be honored by Runner's World magazine in 2004 for his role in starting TNT.)
Since 1988, more than 295,000 volunteer participants have helped raise more than US$660 million for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
