Mother's Day Classic 2011: TEAM TISH - WE DID IT!

I had a wonderful morning - thanks to all our "TEAM TISH" members for being with me on this important day.

When asked why I was running in the "Mother's Day Classic", my answer was:

• To say thanks for the research, without which I would not be alive.

and

• To sustain strength and fitness so that I can (hopefully) reduce my chances of the disease returning

and

• To keep up healthy lifestyle choices so that I can also (hopefully) become a mother myself after treatment has finished

As a team we raised $1,140.00! What an incredible effort! This goes to the National Breast Cancer Foundation (Australia) for breast cancer research.

I'd like to say special thanks to:

Michael Ross Builders (my #1 supporter!)

Star Formulations

Good Doggy

The Warwick Foundation

*bespoke* zine

Bizness Babes

Bite Dental

Mummy's Wish

Thank you very much!

More photos are here.

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: Hatiheri Headscarves

Six red and white polka dot Hatiheri headscarves are ready to go. I've run out of red thread but as soon as I get some more, I'll finish the rest of them to make 10 for our TEAM TISH members. I've ordered blue shirts from an online clearance shop and I hope they will arrive early next week. We're going to look AWESOME in our costumes!

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!