Fundraising Update

Dear Friends,

I want to just pause for a moment and say a big THANK YOU!

To all of you who have sponsored me and parted with your hard earned cash, I salute you all.  You probably won’t realise how much your support means, not just to me but to people living today with Cancer.

Yesterday morning, my fundraising total sat at £1,922.00 .. still some way to go before clearing my first fundraising milestone of £2,000. As you may remember, I have to raise a minimum of £2,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support or I have to personally make up the difference.

Training has been very slow as I begin to heal from the torn calf muscle I had a few weeks back. There’s still a niggle and running is painful. The mental pain is tougher to overcome. The pressure to do well and raise £2,000, let alone my ultimate target of £5,000, has been unbearable at times.

But there is something that never ceases to amaze me on this London Marathon journey.  When I’m at my lowest and feeling absolutely dreadful … something happens. It’s different every time.  But something always happens. Quite often it’s someone totally unexpected getting in touch: kindness from strangers has been a source of constant amazement.  There are some very special people out there who have quietly gone to my fundraising page and made an online donation..some big, some smaller but each with the same intention of giving what they can to help others.

Yesterday, it happened again. Towards the end of a dreadful day, someone came and gave me a cheque to put towards my fundraising target. They had kind words of support and they probably didn’t know how much it all meant to me. They want to remain anonymous.

So, today I can announce a milestone has been reached! I have reached 40% of my final target and today’s fundraising total is £2,022.00 !!!!

To you all: Thank You – for your support, for your emails, for your donations, kind words and love .. you are truly amazing and I couldn’t do this without you.

With all my love

Joanna

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