Hitting The Streets For Welsh Cancer Charity
By admin
Issued on behalf of Cancer Research Wales
Alastair Milburn is no stranger to putting on his running shoes and pounding the streets for charity, but for his wife Sara the Cardiff Half Marathon is a whole new challenge – and one she refused to pass up.
The couple from Whitchurch in Cardiff will join thousands of other runners on Sunday, October 14, for the 13.1 mile race, but for Sara there is only one person that she is looking to beat, and that is her marathon veteran husband.
Sara, 40, has taken part in 5K races for the last five years, but usually leaves the longer distances to Alastair, 38, who has competed in three London Marathons, the New York Marathon and also the Cardiff Half Marathon on two previous occasions.
It was only when Alastair, who is Managing Director of Cardiff PR agency Effective Communication, suggested that she ‘step up a level’, and promised a donation to Cancer Research Wales, that Sara took up the challenge.
Sara, who works as a reflexologist, said: “Alastair’s suggestion was like a red rag to a bull, and was all the incentive that I needed to enter for the half marathon. He has also made a promise that he will make a further donation to Cancer Research Wales if I can complete the race in under two hours 45 minutes – so there’s no doubt that I will be under that time!
The couple, who have two sons, William, ten, and George, eight, have pledged to donate all of their sponsorship money to Cancer Research Wales – a charity that is close to the family’s heart since Alastair lost his sister Roxy, to the disease last year at the age of only 40.
Sara said: “When someone you love is suffering of cancer you feel so helpless and angry because it seems that there is nothing you can do to help them. Running the half-marathon is a way of turning that helplessness into something practical to try and fight the disease.
“Cancer Research Wales is an extremely deserving charity as every penny of money raised stays in Wales, where it helps to fund vital research into cancer and treatments that will help us all in the future.”
