I'm gonna run for charity

[Truffle]

What a wonderful thing to do for such a wonderful cause Good Luck!

[jemmalg]

Such a great cause and a wonderful memorial to your cousin (and pets!). Its a horrible disease and think it's something that's probably affected everyone in some way, I wish you the best of luck and will certainly be donating!

[Clairealex]

This is a great thing to do I'm also doing the Race for Life in Glasgow as well as the Kilt Walk, all in aid of cancer research. I lost my gran to lung cancer, an aunt battling breast cancer, an uncle with testicular cancer and my Dad has (fingers crossed) won his battle with prostate cancer. He was diagnosed at 49, a non smoker with only the rare drink, with a healthy lifestyle. That made me realise that this disease doesn't follow any pattern - anyone can develop it, so it's in all our interests to throw money into research.

The more that can be raised, the better. I'll be donating to you too Good luck with training!

[flogging_molly]

That's fantastic clairealex, I've heard of the kiltwalk and you're right it can happen to anyone regardless of lifestyle Xx fingers remain crossed for everyone in remission to stay clear x

[flogging_molly]

Still training folks however a little bit of sad news, I have just been given another reason to do my best and raise as much money as possible, my lovely mother in law has just been diagnose with cancer leiomyosarcoma - docs are still testing to see what stage she is but please keep absolute;y everything crossed - she is such a wonderful and lovely person I genuinely don't want to imagine our lives without her

[suga]

Hope the training is going well. I also committed to doing race for life, this weekend in Edinburgh. Was initially planning to run but doing with a friend who will need to walk. So walking it this year. Mainly been doing my training inside on treadmill and will have to train again to run outside as having been outside once, know it's completely different and a lot harder on the pins. Lots being raised for cancer research in the coming few months. Good luck and enjoy.

[DrKMcK]

Someday they will be able to deal with all the different forms of this dreadful disease. Practice hard, run well.

[flogging_molly]

Little update for you all, my lovely mother in law has something called a mesonepheric tumor in her womb so has had surgery to remove the tumor, unfortunately it was wrapped around part of her kidney and bowl so parts of those had to be removed too but the good news is they think it's all gone they need to do tests on it in pathology and check to make sure it hasn't spread but its positive for the moment.

Update wise on training I have stepped things up, have been running outside to get practice on the ground as like you Suga I have been running a lot indoors on the treadmill but it's a lot different on the ground so been training there, feeling good for it and it's helping to focus on that with everything going on with my MIL.

Thanks once again to everyone for you positive support and comments.

[flogging_molly]

Well folks it has been a bus couple of weeks so please forgive me for not posting sooner but I did it, I completed the Race For Life 5K in 50 mins my best time yet and I raised £73. There's still a few weeks before those donations go off to Cancer Research UK so if anyone does want to donate that would be lovely (details are on the original post) and mega thanks to everyone for all the support and donations.

Here's some snaps of the day

[corrieberry]

What an amazing achievement, well done you! I really hope you keep up the running! And best of luck to your MIL, I hope everything can be healed up.