"In June this year, we sadly lost my Aunty Sandra to stomach cancer. Having seen her battle with Stage 4 for nearly 2 years, I was inspired to run the Dunedin half marathon in her memory to raise money for the Gut Cancer Foundation to support their work and research. I chose to do the half because I wanted a physical challenge, to symbolize what she had gone through, and I didn’t want it to be easy!

I was blown away by how many people donated, from all areas of my life, which was incredible to see and made the run emotional knowing all these people wanted to support the cause. So to anyone who is considering doing something gutsy for gut cancer - go for it!!"