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A Dream Fulfilled

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March 31 2012 - four weeks after having had major surgery to remove my colon I should have been fulfilling a lifetime dream to run in an Olympic stadium. I had been lucky enough to get a place to run in the National Lottery Olympic Park Run - a 5 mile run finishing in the New London 2012 stadium. I'd been so excited to do this and had been training hard pretty much right up till I went into hospital! When I came out of hospital our focus was on getting me fit and although I an kept trying to think of ways to get me to the park it was realistically a few weeks too soon! we went up to London anyway and I was gutted as the train went past the stadium but it was far more important that I was alive to spend a weekend with my family than I ran in a stadium. Like everyone in the UK we followed the amazing events of London 2012 from France and experienced the magic of the Paralympics for ourselves, spending a weekend experiencing goal ball, basketball and the athletics, savouring the amaz