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Mum`s Race For Life
Yesterday my mum took part in the Race for Life in Guildford. It was her first ever race and she completed the 5km in about 35 minutes. Considering that a year ago, she couldnt run for more than 30 seconds this a massive achievement.My aunt died of cancer just over…
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a year ago, and this was the stimulus for my mum to not only raise some money for cancer research, but also to try and improve her own health. She decided that she wanted to start running (my dad also orienteers every week), and so with my help, she started training to run this 5km.She had not done any running for around 30 years, keeping relatively active playing badminton and swimming most weeks, but not really doing large amounts of exercise. She also has arthritis in several joints restricting some of her movement, so we started small, with her running…
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