2008 was a massive year of highs and lows for my family. You always here of people with breast cancer but i had never experienced it with anyone in my close family group. However in May 2008 this all changed just after my grandfather died when my mum gave me the news that she had breast cancer. This came as devastating news and really knocked me for six. My mum took it as well as can be expected and started on her journey to beat this breast cancer. I always new i would face breast cancer with my wife after in October 2007 we were told she had the BRAC1 gene, but never expected my mum to get it. After consulting with the doctors it was my mums decision to have a mastectomy, which took great courage. The operation came around fast and was in August 08. After the op my fiance and i went to France to have a weeks breather it was a wonderful time as we looked ahead to December when we were to be married. However when we got back Alexis (my fiance) gave me the news she had found a lump, my heart just sank. We were immediately referred by the doctors to the Royal Marsden where my mum was being treated, for a series of tests. A week later in September 2008 it was confirmed Alexis had breast cancer. As you could imagine we were heart broken Alexis at the age of 26 had breast cancer we could never had imagined it. Alexis has always been the a girl that had always dreamed of her wedding and to have this news 4 months before we were to be married crushed her, with thoughts of not having her own hair really worrying her. Holding hands we went through the process of sorting out a plan of action with the doctors eventually coming to the conclusion that she would have a lumpectomy, followed by chemotherapy commencing two days after our wedding, and as brave as always she stayed strong and stayed positive. After an amazing wedding my now wife Alexis is going through her chemotherapy with great strength and courage, as my mum has just finished her chemo with also great determination and courage. I have really struggled with the fact that the two most important females in my life are going through this at the same time and i have been in extreme awe and admiration for them both and the way they are handling it. I have felt very helpless that i cannot do anything directly to help them both, and this is why i am running the marathon for them both. To raise money for the research that goes in to creating these amazing drugs to help my mum and Alexis and all the other breast cancer patients get through it. Please help me raise some money to help this amazing charity so they can carry on there great work, and who knows eventually be able to provide a cure for all breast cancer.