Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

Update: 27th April 2010 - Just back from London, medal in hand, smile on face and extremely sore legs! Best advice I've been given is "try going down stairs backwards"! It works!

I'd just like to thank all of you who have made donations and organised fundraising events once again. I can assure you, the 4 hours 38 minutes and 14 seconds pounding the streets of London was worth every penny.

For those of you visiting this site for the first time, it's not too late!

I'd also like to thank all of my family for all of their support over the past few months and on Sunday 25th April 2010. It made it all worth while. The last 4 miles were a struggle, but I was helped along because I knew my uncle Kenny would have been proud of me and I knew my Mum was waiting for me at the finish. My Mum was absolutely delighted that she got to meeet and chat with Lynn Foulds Wood. It really made her day!

Why Lynn's Bowel Cancer Campaign?

Like Lynn Faulds Wood, my Mum was eventually diagnosed with advanced bowel cancer after months of medical delay. My Mum is currently responding well to her treatment and has taken heart from the fact that Lynn survived and has spent the last eight years helping to save lives from this cruel, common cancer.

My Uncle Kenny died as a result of bowel cancer a few years ago, so I'm also doing this for all his family too. And through my fundraising campaign, I have talked to so many people who have been affected, one way or another, by bowel cancer. So I'm doing this for all of you as well.

Bowel Cancer is the second most common cancer which kills people in the UK, causing more deaths every year than breast and cervical cancer put together. Around 35,000 people will be diagnosed with bowel cancer this year.

Bowel Cancer is preventable, treatable and beatable.

Lynn's bowel cancer campaign is a truly voluntary charity and is working to change the way people get diagnosed and treated without delay. To find out more about what they do and how to SPOT the symptoms, visit www.bowelcancer.tv  It could save your life!

Being a young at heart 44 years old, I thought I'd challenge myself to run a marathon and at the same time help to raise awareness of bowel cancer. After all, I've run a few half marathons and the odd 10K, so a marathon shouldn't be too hard ....... should it?

Please help me reach my ambition and help Lynn's bowel cancer campaign in the great work that they are doing. You know it makes sense!

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So please dig deep and donate now.

Best wishes

Andy

p.s. You know I'm persistent so you might as well donate now before I start to really pester you!