Raise it. Run it. Beat it.
Today I ran the Hopetoun House 10k for Cancer Research with ‘Team Mairead’. We managed to raise almost £10,000 including Gift Aid supplements by the end of race day, and more donations are being made. I am so pleased. It was amazing to see so many of Mairead’s friends and family out supporting her fight with cancer – and people who you haven’t spoken to in a few years donating online. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the team’s fundraising.
I spent last week down in London with Mairead, as she is is recovering from an operation to remove the tumors. It’s incredibly frustrating to want to help someone so much, but to not have the power to fix things there and then. Time has been pretty strange for the past few months. Sometimes things go very quickly, sometimes painfully slowly. Mairead is very brave – she really is an amazing, wonderful and strong person. I hope that the recovery goes quickly, and as well as it can.
