TNT Glossary

You hear a lot of terms from our staff, coaches and mentors. If you're ever stumped over our TNT jargon, here's a list of terms you'll hear often...

• Refer-A-Friend: When you refer a friend to the TNT program, if that friend commits at commitment date, you will receive an additional $100 in your fundraising account.
• Alumni: You become an alumna/alumnus of the program as soon as you complete your first TNT event. We love our alumni and we look forward to welcoming you to the family!
• Staff Lead: The Team In Training staff person who is organizing your season/campaign. This person will be your fundraising advisor throughout the season and will typically accompany you to your event weekend.
• Coach: The person who prepares you for your event. Your coach will write your training plan and organize your group workouts. All your questions about training should be directed to your coach.
• Mentor: The person who, along with the staff lead, helps guide you in your fundraising. A mentor is part of our alumni and will be available to you throughout the season to answer any questions or concerns about fundraising.
• Honored Teammate: A blood cancer patient/survivor your team participates in honor of. Sometimes this teammate will visit you at group runs. You are free to post their photos on your fundraising web pages and tell your friends you're running in their honor. Your honored teammate gives you a connection to the cause if you don't already have one.
• Fundraising Commitment: Your fundraising commitment is the amount that you are committing to fundraise for LLS. Your commitment is determined based upon the costs to get you across the finish line of your chosen event, and then set to ensure that at least 80% of what is being raised directly impacts the mission of LLS. Your fundraising commitment includes a number of benefits including race entry, coaching, hotel accommodations (if applicable), training shirt, race day apparel, and an Inspiration Dinner.
• Commitment Date: Once known as "recommitment", this is the date we ask you to fully commit to the season. You are making a promise to complete your fundraising commitment. Once you give us your full commitment to the program, we are committing to you as well. At this point, we pay your coaches, purchase race entries, pay for your hotel room, purchase dinner tickets, purchase race day jerseys, etc. When you commit, you promise that even if you don't finish your fundraising, you will let us charge you the remainder.
• Final Funds Date: This is the date a couple of weeks before your event that we ask you to complete your fundraising minimum. If at this time you have not completed your fundraising commitment, you will be charged for the remainder.
• Fundraising 101 & One On One: Each season our staff hosts a Fundraising Workshop in which we present ideas for your fundraising campaign and teach the "dos" and "don'ts" of fundraising. We also schedule one on one sessions with participants to advise them and help organize their campaign.
• Mission Moment: Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families. At the beginning of group runs and at other events, we typically will have a "mission moment" to remind participants of why they are raising all that money. Sometimes a cancer patient will speak. Sometimes a volunteer or staff person will share a story or statistic related to our mission.
• Group Run/Ride/Swim: These are the workouts organized by your coach for your team. You will train as a group with SAG support on the bike, water stops on the run, etc.
• Brick Workout: A back to back workout in the sport of triathlon. Triathletes must stack some of their workouts like bricks. Sometimes a brick is a swim followed by a run. Sometimes it's a bike followed by a run. Sometimes it's a run followed by a bike followed by a run. Brick workouts get mixed up, but it's always a back to back workout to train your body for triathlon.
• Fuel: Not for the car, but for your body! Food and drink are now considered fuel to get you going in this great new sport.
• Taper: The time period from 2-4 weeks prior to race day in which you begin to slow things down. Mileage decreases and workouts get a little easier to help you recover for race day.
• TNT Packet Pick Up: Not to be confused with race packet pick up, TNT packet pick up is the time you pick up your packet from our office. This will include your inspiration dinner tickets, race day Jersey, incentives, weekend schedule, etc. You must pick this up or have a friend pick it up for you at our office.
• Race Packet Pick Up: Each race will operate in a slightly different manner, but most of them will host an expo the day before the race. At the race, you pick up your race packet which includes items such as timing chip, race bib, shirt, etc. At many races, the expo also includes booths where you can purchase all kinds of fun race gear.
• Red Carpet: Entrance to our inspiration dinners is like a pep rally! You are cheered into the dinner because you're a rock star!
• Inspiration Dinner: The night before your race, you're treated to a dinner with guest speakers who will thank you for your great effort and remind you of the mission to inspire you for the next day's event.
• Finish Line: In your sport, it's the big, happy finish when you've completed your race. People cheer for you, you get a medal, eat some food, and live the rest of your life proud of yourself! In our mission, it's the day we hope for- when blood cancer ceases to exist. By being a part of Team In Training, you are getting us closer to that great finish line!
• GO TEAM! This is our famous TNT cheer. You'll hear it many times throughout the season, including on race day. Anytime we see someone in TNT attire, we shout out "Go Team!"