Amanda's flamingo walk

My Story

As many of you know I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer earlier this year and I am currently receiving treatment which is going very well. This greatly affected my fitness in the first half of the year but I have decided to challenge myself to regain some of that in aid of Cancer Research UK by walking 2.9 miles in the Hooky Alternative Race For Life. There is no way I am going to be able to run this (I couldn't have done that before!), the most I will be running will be a bath afterwards to ease my aching legs! Walking round dressed in pink seemed rather mundane so I invite you to sponsor me to strut around the course at a gentle pace dressed as a flamingo! We have 4,000 reasons to believe we can beat cancer; that’s how many smart minds are working in the best research facilities across the country to find new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat this disease. When you support Cancer Research UK, you are not only funding research into life-saving discoveries, kinder treatments and ways to educate people about lifestyle choices, but you are also helping to keep loved ones together for longer, see people reach milestone birthdays and bring forward the day when all cancers are cured. With one in two of us likely to be diagnosed with cancer in our lifetimes, our research is vital. Cancer Research UK is the only charity to research all 200 cancer types without government funding. Support like yours ensures we can continue our work, bringing about more breakthroughs, more treatments and more cures than ever before. Everything we achieve for our life-changing research is thanks to the generosity and dedication of our volunteers. Simply put, we could not achieve these breakthroughs without your support. You don’t have to wear a lab coat to beat cancer.