Emma Webb

Emma Webb will be running the 26.2 mile course of the Berlin Marathon to raise vital funds for World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF UK). The donations she receives will help to carry out our cancer prevention research and education programmes. Please show your support for Emma by sponsoring her by clicking on the orange ‘sponsor me’ button below. Thank you in advance for your donation.

"I was diagnosed with a synovial sarcoma last year, which is a very rare cancer, but luckily the tumour was also in a rare place between two ribs so I was aware of it relatively quickly and it hadn’t had a chance to spread. (Touch wood) Having always been fit and active and still being fairly young it was a real shock as I had always taken my health for granted. After some evasive surgery and chemotherapy I have got through it and feel fine again. The only difference being that I now have short dark hair, I used to have to dye it this colour! I also have a beautiful scar across my ribs, but if and when I brave a bikini this summer I plan to say it was caused by a shark bite!

I decided to run the Berlin Marathon this year to raise money for a really great charity, plus purple is my favourite colour! After a year of inactivity, training for a marathon is giving me no choice but to get back fighting fit again. I am actually really enjoying the training too. On the hard days I just have to think back to lying in that hospital bed for 3 or 4 days at a time having poison pumped into me and it spurs me on to make it up the huge hills that I manage to find on every run! I have roped in 6 other poor souls to run with me, thanks guys! In addition to the full marathon this year I am also running two-10km “race for life’s” and the south coast half marathon. Obviously I am doing all this for me but also for the other people close to me that have had cancer including my Nana, Aunt, and my fiancée’s mum. I am also doing it for the friends and family who got me through the last year, as I couldn’t have done it without them.

Everyone that I talk to about it knows someone who has been affected by cancer, so any donation that you can make to help support World Cancer Research Fund will be greatly appreciated. Also please don’t take your own health for granted, get fit, be healthy, be happy and make sure that you live life to the full.

Thank you very much for your donation.”

- Emma x

Sponsor List

• 07/19/2010 - Emily Chapple: £5.00
• 07/21/2010 - Bridget Harris O'Neill: £25.00 This is such a brilliantly exciting thing to do - good luck to Emma in Berlin and well done.
• 07/26/2010 - David Lavender: £100.00 For a courageous and resilient young lady.Good luck with the preparation and event. Uncle D x
• 08/11/2010 - Rosemary Webb: £320.00 You made me cry, not often you wear your heart on your sleeve. your share of the money I have raised so far from the generosity of family and friends.
• 08/12/2010 - Lyne Beevers: £10.00 Glad you are well enough to do this. Good Luck to you and Becky (have sponsored her also). Love Lyne, John, Rob & Steph xx
• 08/17/2010 - Thomas Born: £50.00 Hey Emma, all the best and see you soon.
• 08/17/2010 - Christian Glock: £10.00 Hi Emma. Good luck and all the best. I hope to see you soon. Chris
• 08/18/2010 - Erik Bick: £50.00 Hi Emma, good to hear that you are at full speed again. We are so impressed by your fighting spirit. Good Luck from Erik, Susanne, Joakim and Mikael
• 08/19/2010 - Hamish Mead: £20.00 Heard about you in the Snappy. Well done on your recovery! Good to see you making the most of life. Run like the wind and enjoy every step in Berlin!
• 08/19/2010 - Russell du Lieu: £25.00 Hi Emma. Shocked to read your story on the 'snappy' and delighted to hear that you are fighting fit again. See you on the line sometime soon. Russ
• 08/20/2010 - Dave Curtis: £10.00 Doris!! Best of luck with your trot around Berlin. Can't be there to give you a shout but will be thinking of you.
• 08/20/2010 - Kirsty Arnold: £10.00 Good luck, I'm sure you'll be fine! I thought I was brave doing a 10k!
• 08/23/2010 - Ino Benschop: £25.00 he Emma, run for our lives!!
• 08/24/2010 - Lindsay Hawkins: £25.00 Its an amazing thing you are doing...I couldn't even run to the end of our road!!! Its so fab to see you soooo fit!!! Best Wishes!!
• 08/24/2010 - John Webb: £50.00 You know I am very proud of you and all you have achieved, Love Daddy xXx
• 08/26/2010 - Rosemary Webb: £105.00 On your way to £1,000. add in your team and it will be an amazing amount. Worth all the hard work and personal costs. You are a star.
• 08/29/2010 - Christophe Rolland: £50.00 Have a very good run Emma
• 09/03/2010 - Ward Dams: £25.00 Run Emma! I wish I had your strength and dedication. Hope to see you soon back on the line.