Race For Life

Mum and I in 2011 in the rain!!

As some of you know my Mum and I have been doing the Race For Life for quite a number of years now.  We have managed to raise about £1000 for Cancer Research.  Every year there was someone close to me who had an experience of cancer and for whom I ran the race for.  What is so ironic is that I ran last year's without even realising that I actually had cancer!  How mad is that?!?  I remembering saying before hand that I had lost all my stamina since having my daughter and that I knew I would find it really hard; little did I know that I ran it with a tumour that you could hold in two hands and severe anaemia!  Its amazing that I even made it to the end, although I was a little put out that my Mum had finished before me for the first year ever!!

Our back dedications from 2011 x

So this year I am determined to run it as a survivor; it takes place in the last few weeks of my chemotherapy, so I am hoping that I will be well enough to take part.  Cancer Research is such an invaluable charity; medicine has come so far in the successful treatment of cancer and I owe my life to that research.  Survival rates for cancer have increased so much in the past 10 years, particularly in bowel cancer, so just imagine what could happen in the next 10 years!

I have two asks of you today - Number 1: once I have registered myself and Mum for the Race For Life please sponsor us and Number 2: if you are a lady why not consider running the Race For Life yourself?  They happen all over the country and although it can be emotional reading all the dedications on ladies' backs, it is also a great deal of fun! If you are local to me then come and join us! We could make a team and raise even more money for such a worthwhile cause.  Go on, do it now!



http://raceforlife.cancerresearchuk.org/

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