Brisbane Running Festival: TEAM TISH

On Sunday 7th August, I'll be running my first 10km run!

Inspired by my success - and with so much support from friends and family - in running 4.5km for the Brisbane Mother's Day Classic (8 May 2011) and 5km in the Rotary Fun Run (22 May 2011), I've decided to take the plunge and pledge to run 10km in the Brisbane Running Festival (7 August 2011). Two weeks before that I'm going to run 8km in the RBWH Foundation's Royal Run for Research (24 July 2011).

Three years ago I would never have considered running for fun. But some things have changed since then.

The Brisbane Running Festival has featured me on their "Inspiration" page!

Media: TEAM TISH in the Courier Mail

Four members of "TEAM TISH" and I were featured in today's Courier Mail newspaper, the local paper for Queensland. We're running in the Brisbane Mother's Day Classic, on 8 May.

The focus of the article is about information on fertility options being available at time of diagnosis. Chemo can result in infertility, and in our case we were lucky that we had a chance at IVF. I underwent a cycle prior to chemo starting and as a consequence we have seven embryos waiting for us for use after my current hormone treatment regime (arimidex and zolodex) has finished (hopefully in 2014).

You can read the whole article online here.

Mother's Day Classic 2011: Training

Every Sunday for the past four weeks, I have been doing the Brisbane Mother's Day Classic course as a training run. Some days are slower than other and some days I walk a little bit, but it's a wonderful start to a Sunday. Sure, it's hard to get up at 5:30am for a 6am start but it really does give me energy for the whole day. My running buddies are Julie, Bronwyn, Alex and sometimes Mike joins me too.

Brisbane Mother's Day Classic Course 2011

In addition to this, every Monday evening for the past three weeks, Tymara and I have been doing a training run in New Farm, which is about 3km. Recently we have also been joined by Carly and Louise. It's so wonderful to do something together that you know is contributing to something even greater.

I'm really looking forward to the 'big day' now: 8th May 2011. Please sponsor me if you can!

Mother's Day Classic 2011: We Can Do It!

"TEAM TISH" is getting into costume for the 2011 Mother's Day Classic fund-raising run!

We're going as the "We Can Do It" poster woman, often associated with "Rosie the Riveter".

Just like me, she's wearing a headscarf, working, and dealing with a difficult time. But she's got that upbeat, unbeatable spirit that I see in my family, friends, and supporters.

I've ordered blue denim shirts from an online clearance shop and the next step is to make our headscarves. Hatiheri headscarves of course!

Keep coming back to see photos of the finished result and also of our run. Mother's Day in Australia is on Sunday, 8 May ... less than a month to go ... We Can Do It!

TEAM TISH
Tymara - Louise - Carly - Kathryn - Gabi - Rita - Julie - Alexis - Bronwyn - Heidi - and YOU!