Melanie's story - Sarah suggested on New Year's Day that "we run 100 miles in January for charity".  Melanie said "yes" and here we are.

In January 2016 my mum, Sandra Harrison, was diagnosed with Mesothelioma (asbestos poisoning).  This was a huge shock to all of us as we had no idea when she had come into contact with it.  We didn't know how long Mum had, only that it was an extremely aggressive terminal cancer.  We had four short months.  My mum was amazingly brave, she had every treatment that was offered to her, including chemotherapy and never complained about the pain she was in.  Mum fought very hard, she had so much to live for, but unfortunately lost her battle in May, aged 62.  There is a huge hole in our family now where Mum should be.  Mum missed my sister's wedding, missed seeing her grandchildren grow up, missed a happy retirement with my dad and missed looking after her parents.  These are all things we take for granted that we will get to do in life.  I could not do anything to stop Mum being taken from us, so I want to do something to help others in the same situation and make her proud (I am sure she would love it if I knitted 100 hats but I cant knit) and so running 100 miles in a month will definitely be a challenge.  My mum would do anything for anyone and raising money to help people with this terminal illness and their families is something that she would think is important.  Therefore I run in memory of you, Mum.  I would run round the world if it would bring you back to us xx

Sarah's Story - So I said "Mel, you know you want to do something to raise money for charity for your mum?" She said "yes" so I said "lets run a 100 miles in January!" So here we are....

Mel's mum was diagnosed with this awful cancer, which took her way too soon.  When we met and Mel told me what had happened it made me feel so sad that they'd all been through this but also made me realise how lucky I had been.  My mum had had bowel cancer in 2007, thyroid cancer in 2011, my brother had kidney cancer in 2008 and my dad lives with prostate cancer, which he was diagnosed with in 2007 but unlike Mel's mum my family members made it through this terrible cancer battle...

My point here is there is so much going on with cancer, so many different types and some get beaten and some don't but with every bit of money raised we can help develop the science behind a cure or in the very least support patients who are going through this.  So please please please support us in raising some money and making a difference in memory of Sandra xx

So to sum it all up, we will be running 100 miles each in January 2017.  Our challenge started on 1st January and will end on 31st January. 

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