Friday, June 1

Jane Tomlinson


Everyone wants to wrap you in cottonwool and the running was a way of showing I could still do something positive with my life .It also helped to relieve all the anger, the sense that this was so unfair and why was it happening to me?”


Jane Tomlinson is a British woman from Yorkshire who has advanced metastatic breast cancer the disease spread is extensive. The disease was diagnosed incurable in 2000.

Since being told she was suffering from incurable cancer, Jane Tomlinson has captured the imagination of a nation, she's run a wide variety of races, including the London Marathon, London Triathlon, Great North Run and a number of cycle challenges.Jane has raised over £1m for the Jane Tomlinson Appeal, which helps various charities .

In 2006, she completed a 4,200-mile, 63 day ride ride across America, almost six years after she was given six months to live. Jane’s attitude and determination has been inspirational to cancer sufferers worldwide , she has proved to others that are touched by others that life goes on and anything is possible.