Local runner’s 19th marathon to help beat breast cancer
Press Release For immediate release: 27 April 2010 Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign, DD 0207 749 3724, Email: lgarrahan@breastcancercampaign.org Local runner’s 19th marathon to help beat breast cancer Budding runner Kirste Snellgrove, from Benfleet, Essex, pounded the London pavements on Sunday (25 April) to complete her 19th marathon for Breast Cancer Campaign. The Police Officer at Essex Police College has run almost 500 miles in marathons around the world and joined 36,000 runners for the Virgin London Marathon after being diagnosed with cancer in 2005, aged 35. She completed the race with her partner John Bowman in six hours four minutes and raised a whopping £5,000 to fund breast cancer research. Two other friends, Anna Spencer and Rachel O’Connor, were also part of Team Snellgrove on Sunday. Kirste said afterwards: “I’m so thrilled to have completed my ninth London marathon and 19th marathon overall. The atmosphere on the day was brilliant and it was so lovely seeing all the Breast Cancer Campaign staff cheering us on and keeping us going right until the end. I love my running and cancer can try to interfere with that, but it will never bring me down.” If you would still like to sponsor Kirste and her team, please visit www.justgiving.com/teamsnellgrove and donate what you can. Breast Cancer Campaign has lots of places available in runs throughout 2010 and 2011 so if you would like more information about running for Breast Cancer research, please call the Events team on 0207 749 3700 or visit www.breastcancercampaign.org. As part of the team you will automatically become members of Linford’s All Stars – a new exclusive club captained by Linford Christie, who offers all his supporters helpful training tips and nutritional advice. Ends Picture caption: Kirste Snellgrove and John Bowman at the Virgin London Marathon 2010 Notes to editors • Breast Cancer Campaign aims to beat breast cancer by funding innovative world-class research to understand how breast cancer develops, leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure • Currently it supports 114 research projects, worth over £17.1 million, in 40 centres of excellence across the UK and Ireland • Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and accounts for nearly one in three of all cancers in women • In the UK, nearly 46,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year - that’s 125 a day • Visit www.breastcancercampaign.org • Read Chief Executive Pamela Goldberg’s blog http://pamelagoldbergblog.blogspot.com/ • Breast Cancer Campaign is campaigning for all candidates standing for election to Westminster to sign up to the breast cancer research pledge: www.breastcancercampaign.org/election
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