Hi,

As most of you know, we lost our Mum to cancer recently, after a two year battle.

During this time we were reliant on many professional people, including the District Nurses, the lovely staff at the Royal Sussex Hospital and off course the MacMillan Cancer Support team.

I had decided last year to run the Brighton Half Marathon to raise money for MacMillan (booked last April, started training three weeks ago!!), but having seen them at first hand in the last few months of Mum's life particularly, I'm glad that I can help just a little bit.

I do realise that is a tough time of year to spare money (and climate in general), but anything I can raise is a bonus, and is money that MacMillan wouldn't have had (as they are 100% reliant on Charity funding as I understand.)

Anyway, the Half Marathon is on 19th February 2012, so I'm cranking up the training (if I can do this I may well do the Marathon next year, clearly going to see how this distance goes!!!)

Hope everyone's well, take care

Neil