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Gold Coast overrun by marathon festival

Cancer fun run & cancer fundraisingA record 28,000 runners turned out for the annual Gold Coast Airport Marathon event, encompassing the marathon, half marathon, 10km, 5km and junior dash races. As part of the event, 5 generous individuals chose to raise funds for cancer research as part of their race.

These supporters each had their own motivations for supporting cancer research, some were cancer survivors giving their all with their new found health, others had friends and family currently battling cancer, and others had sadly lost loved ones to cancer. Supporter Miles Thompson said it was the loss of his amazing papa, Keith Patching, a few years ago that inspired him to support cancer research, he was doing this run for his papa. Amongst all the worthy cancer charities, supporter Kylie King chose to support the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) because she “decided [her] money would work the best, by going towards helping with research to find a cure.” Continue reading “Gold Coast overrun by marathon festival”