I’m on the fundraising trail again, if you’ve been part of the Weight Wars family for a while you’ll remember that last year I ran The British 10k for the Children’s Heart Federation, I explained why CHF in this post last year. With gift aid I raised just over £450 which I was super proud of. Children’s heart federation are an amazing Charity who do fabulous things.

This year I’ve been inspired by a friend and her lovely son. Just last week my friend noticed  that her son had the odd bruise, not unusual for a 3 year old boy, but then a little rash appeared, something a lot of people would dismiss but something didn’t sit right for Jayne or her motherly instinct and she popped Felix to the doctors.

Let me introduce you to 3 year old Felix. Felix likes dogs, he loves holidays, lives not far from me and at that doctors meeting Felix was diagnosed with ALL Leukaemia.

That’s when their roller coaster began. He was diagnosed with ALL Leukaemia. Something that seems so deeply unfair is that his family were giving out hampers to families at Christmas who were staying in the relatives accommodation. It’s deeply unfair because Felix at 3 years old is facing 3 more years of treatment. By being a general super mum and trusting her instincts Felix has an amazing prognosis.

So I’ve set myself a challenge, inspired by Jayne, Felix and the rest of the family, I have signed up for several 5k races this year. I figure if Felix can approach his treatment like the tiniest bump in the road, then I can get my butt off the sofa and run around a bit.

First is the Great West Run 5k, a good local one for me, on May 6th, then the Superhero 5k in Regents Park for Antony Nolan on May 13th and then lastly but not least September 8th The 5k Fun Run for Clic Sargent in Cardiff.  Sadly there was another charity I wanted to run for but was struggling to find something to do then serendipity stepped in and through my door came a charity bag today for that very charity! I filled it up ready for collection on Monday.

We went through our things at the weekend and filled it even higher. It felt good to get Charlie involved too, he parted with some cuddly toys, even new ones because the sick kids need it more, and old clothes too, but most of all I love that we are doing something to help adults and children cope as well as helping find a fail proof cure too.

So my Fundraising page is http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Running4Leukaemia, and you can donate there for Felix and all the other Leukaemia sufferers, or you could join me for one of the runs! I’d love to run with some other people from the UK and beyond! The runs are spread about the country, come and join me!

I’ll keep you up to date about Felix. What are your race plans for 2012?