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Joanne Redmond is raising money for Beating Bowel Cancer
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Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.
As anyone who knows me will testify, I am not a sporty girl! A couple of years ago, the closest I got to running would be the short sprint to the bar to catch last orders! Somehow I seem to have found myself applying to run a marathon!
Beating Bowel Cancer is a cause very close to my heart and to my family. It is one of the most common forms of cancer; someone is diagnosed with it every 15 minutes and statistically we currently have a 1 in 16 chance of developing bowel cancer in our lifetime, so almost everybody will be touched by this terrible disease at some point in their life and there is no known cause.
Like many of us, I have seen the way bowel cancer affects every aspect of life and the suffering that is caused. Therefore marathon training and my inevitable complaints about blisters and tired legs will be a piece of cake! (And I will need an awful lot of cake to get me through 26.2 miles and the many hundreds of training miles!)
Beating Bowel Cancer's mission is quite simple - to do exactly what is says on the tin, so please sponsor me, even a pound or two will be put to good use and in return I will post ridiculous pictures of my progress so you can feel my pain from the comfort of your sofa!
Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving - they'll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to the charity. So it's the most efficient way to donate - saving time and cutting costs for the charity.
As anyone who knows me will testify, I am not a sporty girl! A couple of years ago, the closest I got to running would be the short sprint to the bar to catch last orders! Somehow I seem to have found myself applying to run a marathon!
Beating Bowel Cancer is a cause very close to my heart and to my family. It is one of the most common forms of cancer; someone is diagnosed with it every 15 minutes and statistically we currently have a 1 in 16 chance of developing bowel cancer in our lifetime, so almost everybody will be touched by this terrible disease at some point in their life and there is no known cause.
Like many of us, I have seen the way bowel cancer affects every aspect of life and the suffering that is caused. Therefore marathon training and my inevitable complaints about blisters and tired legs will be a piece of cake! (And I will need an awful lot of cake to get me through 26.2 miles and the many hundreds of training miles!)
Beating Bowel Cancer's mission is quite simple - to do exactly what is says on the tin, so please sponsor me, even a pound or two will be put to good use and in return I will post ridiculous pictures of my progress so you can feel my pain from the comfort of your sofa!
Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving - they'll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to the charity. So it's the most efficient way to donate - saving time and cutting costs for the charity.