This Father's Day will be the first without our Dad, so we thought instead of moping around we'd make the most of it and do something useful.

Our Dad died at the start of this year, two days before his 48th birthday, after a 13 year battle with cancer.

The last one was the fifth time he'd fought the big C which I'd say is a bloody good effort! 

I'll spare you all the gory details but: he was first diagnosed with bowel cancer at 34, had major surgery five times over the years, spent weeks in intensive care, radiotherapy, chemotherapy (for seven months once and then one round again for another cancer), blood transfusions, God knows how many lines put in him, and then countless trips to and from hospital in the last six months of his life, more time spent in than out really. Not to mention between himself and our stepmum Lisa doing his own intravenous fluids every night to save district nurses having to come and do it! 

I always joked he was like Mr Potato Head, they'd fix something and then something else would break or fall off and have to be fixed or stuck back on again.

As you can imagine, each time it came back it wasn't easy, a right pain in the arse (literally) and finding out he was terminally ill was one of the most difficult.

But in all that, I never once heard him complain. He was always the one comforting others and making jokes to help everyone else. And his wit and humour stayed with him right until the end.

So we're going to run over 13 miles this Father's Day, probably end up limping, sweating, crawling and Elliot dragging/carrying me. But we'll give it our best shot for our Dad... And all the other people who have cancer, have had cancer or will have cancer, as at the moment one in three people will get cancer, and only one in two will survive more than ten years, which is bloody scary.

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