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<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>To “celebrate” 10 years running marathons I am doing London in April but this year I aim to RUN TO London and then complete the Marathon. The route will start on Tyneside and will be mainly on cycle paths and quiet roads and will finish outside the Olympic stadium a total of over 330 miles and will be raising money for </strong></span></span>the <strong>British Lung Foundation.</strong></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;"> I</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">n January 2002 my father was diagnosed with a terminal Lung condition and I contacted the BLF to help raise money and they offered me the chance to run the London Marathon. It had been a long time since I did any running but I thought that I would have a lot of time to train and it would be the ultimate challenge. Unfortunately my Father died just 5 days before the run but I still completed and raised over £4000.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A recent report suggested a great variation in median survival times between various types of cancer, with lung cancer still being shown as having one of the worst prognoses of any type of cancer. The findings showed that the survival rate has improved from 2 months in 1971/72 to only five months now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I found the information in this report to be terribly true when my Mother died of the disease in 2009.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Any donations you give will be greatly appreciated and if you could please pass on my event to your family and friends to help with my challenge.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -36pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Many thanks, Keith </span></span></p>
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