My unborn child is doing the Cancer Research Race for Life this weekend in London, and due to that fact that it can’t go anywhere without me just yet, I’ll be going along too.

It’s a 5km course and we’ll be walking it to try and raise £1,000. It’s the fourth time we’ve done Race for Life and the first time we haven’t done it at the Eden Project in Cornwall, but owing to tedious house moving complexities we’ve had to compromise this year.

If you can spare a few quid to sponsor us, we’d be immensely grateful. It only takes a minute girl, as Take That once sang, and you can do it online at Just Giving.

If our Twitter posse all chipped in a few quid each, we’d be many, many multiples over our fund-raising target. Do it for Cancer Research, or for someone you’ve loved and lost. Or both.

Thanks…

“I’m on the inside, but I’ve managed to get a message out!

“I’m a foetus, and by June I’ll be an eight-month old foetus trying to raise £1,000 for Cancer Research at the Race for Life, a 5KM route around the Eden Project in Cornwall. I’ll have to do it with my Mum, of course, as I won’t actually be born yet. But I’d really appreciate your help with the sponsorship. On go on – just a couple of quid? Do it on justgiving.

“Love Boblet x”

Again, thank you for your generous sponsorship. Mum and I raised well over £1000 and the majority of that came through people on Twitter. That’s a social media success story!I’m still trying to sort the video out but a glitch between Flip software and Macs means there is no sound. Grrr…

Mike Parkinson has just sponsored me fifty whole quid for my run on 17 June. That’s very generous – thank you so much! I don’t have your email addy Mike – drop me a line.

In the meantime, any tight wads out there who haven’t coughed up yet – you know who you are. I’m just £30 from my target of £561.50 so pull your finger out.

raceforlifesponsorme.org/jemimakiss2007

I need your money.

I’m doing the Race for Life again in June at the Eden Project in Cornwall and trying to beat the £561.50 I raised last year. This time Mum is joining me.

http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/jemimakiss2007

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The last thing I fancied doing after my race was celebrating in front of the computer, so apologies for any tenterhooks you may have been on. I’ve done the Race for Life and I loved it!I started at the front but sensibly let the whippersnappers run past – and then overtook them down the road when they ran out of puff. I came about 25th out of 2,000 women and finished 3.3 miles in 27 minutes. That’s not too bad (considering I’m new to all this) but if I’d known I was so near the front I wouldn’t have taken it so easy! It’s a good distance to run because you have enough energy to sprint-ish some bits – like the last 100m over the finish line. She shoots – she scores.Eden was stunning. The whole thing was extremely well organised and it’s quite an emotional event.Most runners were there in memory of someone dead or dying and those names were written on our backs. Quite overwhelming to be surrounded by so many names; glimpses of all those horrific, heartbreaking stories just too familiar to us all now.This was for Joan Glass, Wilf Simms and also for Dad – a special message from me to him on Father’s Day and one I know he’d be proud of. Thank you very, very much for supporting me and helping me feel so much better. I’m going to keep on running.Video of me on YouTube at the start and at the end. Photos on Flickr? And you can see my sponsorship total and messages too.So that’s it! But if you ever fancy going for a run, let me know.

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