Team In Training
6 Replies Last post: Apr 30, 2008 1:30 AM by Typhoon

Team In Training Participants Find Love

Dec 12, 2007 12:11 PM

desimonr 6 posts since
Oct 10, 2007
This was posted on the New York Times website. It's a sweet story about two New York City Chapter triathletes meeting each other through Team In Training and eventually getting married.


Find the article and video here - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/fashion/weddings/09Weil.html?_r=2&ref=weddings&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

If you met a significant other through Team In Training, please share your story through this discussion board. We would love to highlight your story to local and national media for Valentine's Day in February.

Click to view runnorm's profile runnorm 1 posts since
Nov 26, 2007
1. Re: Team In Training Participants Find Love Jan 7, 2008 3:42 PM

Whenever someone asks me or my wife Tammy how we met, we always smile and say it was through Team In Training. I was a running coach for TNT and Tammy was getting ready to walk the Bermuda Marathon with TNT. Tammy had never done anything like train for a marathon so when she started to have problems with her ankle she heard she should talk to me. I had been a lifelong runner and was co-owner of a running store at the time so people would ask me for advice from time to time when it came to injuries and such. I remember I couldn't see Tammy during store hours but I did say I would meet her for her training walk the next day where we would try to figure out what was wrong. Tammy says she was impressed with the fact that I met her at 6am the next day but frankly I think I was just doing my job as a coach. Anyways, I didn't talk to Tammy for the next few days until I saw her at a TNT dinner. I sat down across the table from her and engaged in some small talk but when I overheard Tammy say she had a cat well that is a subject I'm pretty passionate about. At the time I had six of my own cats so we talked about our pets and that week we went out on our first date. Right here I have to say that Tammy was wearing this long, tight red veltet dress that caught my eye and the fact that Tammy is a redhead didn't hurt either! To finish our story, Tammy's ankle got better, she finished the Burmuda Marathon and we got married. It has been over seven years now and many marathons for TNT. Thanks TNT. We will always be grateful.

Norman Ferris

Click to view heubusch's profile heubusch 1 posts since
Jan 9, 2008
2. Re: Team In Training Participants Find Love Jan 9, 2008 11:22 AM

I have two stories from the inline skaters of the National Capital Area Chapter!

Daryl & Lori Collette met through Team in Training in 2000 when they both signed up for the inline skating program for the Athens to Atlanta Roadskate (A2A) an 87 mile event. Daryl is a Hodgkins survivor and wanted to "give back" and Lori wanted to meet new people who were active. They were both dating other people at the time however after spending so many hours skating together during practices, they fell in love and eventually got married in 2002. Coincidently, Daryl's 5 year anniversary of being in remission was on the same weekend that he crossed the finish line in Atlanta, GA after skating 87 miles! There wasn't a dry eye at that finish line!

I actually coached the inline skating team from 1998 - 2004. Keith Schreffler signed up for TNT in memory of his Uncle Phil who died from Leukemia in October 2002. After completing A2A, in October 2003, he asked me out on a date (even after he survived my coaching). We just got engaged before Christmas and are planning an October 2008 wedding. The Collette's 3 year old daughter, Cadence, is my Godchild and will be one of our flower girls.

Go TNT!

Cheers,

Krista Heubusch

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Jan 20, 2008
3. Re: Team In Training Participants Find Love Jan 20, 2008 6:49 PM

I met my boyfriend through Team in Training in January of 2006... I had signed up for Alaska and he signed up for San Diego. We didn't really talk much the first month of training, then one Saturday he was not feeling well, so he ran with the "slow" group (ie: me and a friend!) and we talked the whole time. A few days later we had our first date, and two years later we're still together! :D

Team in Training was definitely a life changing experience for me. When I signed up, I was a waitress and a single parent. I met my boyfriend, who is a police officer, and he inspired me to pursue my own dream of being a police officer. I've since completed the police academy and am finishing up my first year as an officer. As a celebration for my personal life achievements and as a thanks to Team in Training, I also recently signed up for TNT again, this time to do a triathalon (in Miami).

:)

Click to view laurenbblue's profile laurenbblue 1 posts since
Jan 29, 2008
4. Re: Team In Training Participants Find Love Jan 29, 2008 5:43 PM

I met my husband through TNT while I was training for my first event -Lake Tahoe. He was training for his second event, Lake Tahoe, while he was moving from Long Island to NC. He had lost his wife to leukemia, found out about TNT and signed up for his first event -the Disney marathon in 2004 with the Long Island chapter. After doing most of his training in NY, he moved down to NC 10 days or so before the event. Traveling to Lake Tahoe, we were seated next to each other on every leg of the flight out there and on the return trip. We became fast friends that weekend, and continued that friendship once we returned to NC. At some point after returning, we decided to start dating. And we decided to continue doing TNT. He soon went from participant to mentor to coach, and has now coached several sessions of runners and walkers to the finish line. He completed his triple crown in 2005 , and I completed mine in December. He will be the assistant tri coach for the first time this spring. TNT has played a HUGE part in our relationship. At our wedding, there were lots of connections to TNT. Most of our friends we have are through TNT. It truly is a life-changing experience. He says that TNT gave him his life back. I like to think it helped to make him the man that I married in September 2007.
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Feb 7, 2008
5. Re: Team In Training Participants Find Love Feb 7, 2008 2:44 AM
Teri and I go way back. Back to the spring of 1999 and our decision to train for the Midnight Sun Marathon with TNT's Chicago chapter. As she tells it, one day she saw a cute guy with the "fast runners" already on the way back during a long, cold out-and-back. As I tell it, I noticed her in a weekend TNT workshop - it might have been the "sendoff" event. We both agree that after inspiring runs in Anchorage (my first marathon, her second or third), that she, in her boundless energy, asked me to dance at the celebration afterwards. I lamely declined.

Although it took months to clear our busy schedules for a first date, we were engaged by August 2000, married in May 2001, first child in August 2002. Teri's patient-hero, Emily, inspired us and served as one of the flower girls in our wedding in Lake Tahoe, conveniently planned around our the Tahoe Century ride. (Emily is a survivor! She's a boisterous teen now!)

Three houses, two more kids and a cross-country move later, we've never strayed from our TNT connection. We've fundraised, mentored and/or coached both in Chicago and now in Utah - on a combined 15+ events, raising what we estimate to be more than $100,000. TNT has taken us to events in Anchorage, Dublin, Memphis, Chicago, Lake Tahoe, San Diego, St. George, Orlando, Tucson ... and probably a couple more.

I "retired" from marathons three years ago. But today I learned that a friend's father passed away. He was diagnosed with lymphoma last fall - fought hard for six months, but maybe never had a chance. I came home rattled from work at lunchtime and said, "Teri, it's time to fundraise again." Ogden, Utah - May 2008, here we come. We can't stop now!
Click to view Typhoon's profile Typhoon 5 posts since
Apr 30, 2008
6. Re: Team In Training Participants Find Love Apr 30, 2008 1:30 AM

It's kinda funny but it's also true to some extent - Team in Training has been jokingly referred to as Team in Dating. =)

Can't say that's the reason I'm here but you truly never know quite where you're going to find love.