Catherine Webb
Cat Webb is going splash
Fundraising for Cancer Research UK, Marie Curie & The Swimathon Foundation
Story
In 2015 and 2016 I did swimathons as part of a team, raising money for cancer research and sports relief. But in 2017 my swimming buddy was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that medicine doesn't really have an answer to. Without her, going swimming didn't really seem the same. It was a thing we did together, and doing it while she was stuck in a hospital felt... wrong.
For a while we thought she was getting better; she was her usual chatty self, albeit in pain - then in mid 2018 she passed away.
I've thought for a long time about whether I really wanna do a swimathon without her; not least because she was always the competitive energetic one, and neither of us could do 5k alone. After a lot of thinking it through, I think the fact that it's raising money for cancer research is something she'd approve of, and in time her memory is less of thing to grieve for, than a force to inspire, a voice reminding us all to get off our asses and live the best we can.
So I'm swimming 5k for Cancer Research UK and Marie Curie. I don't know anyone who hasn't been or won't be touched by cancer at some point in their lives, whether through illness or watching loved ones suffer. Every penny helps - please be generous.
