Return to Running - The Intraining (5Km) Twilight Run

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The final grunt to the finishing line

Working hard on the (Uphill) crossing of the Green Bridge.

Despite an interest in cycling since recovering  from the craniotomy operation resulting from the first recurrence of the tumour in 2006, I have had a passion for running most of my life and I've decided recently that it is time to make a return to this most intense form of exercise. As I turn sixty later this year, the first stop was to a podiatrist to organise a new pair of orthodic inserts for an old bloke like me and then I was off to the local running shop for a new pair of shoes. At the Intraining running shop I heard about the Twilight Series of fun runs and decided that six weeks would be enough time for a slow buildup to the shortest distance of 5 Km. So I entered the event which was run on 23 March.

Another Watch and Sweat (Wait) comes up clear - almost five years tumour-free now

Another follow-up MRI scan came up clear today. May 2014 will be the five-year anniversary of my last surgery.That's heaps better than the paltry two and a half years I got out of the previous operation in 2006. So I'm thinking that the trials of radiation and chemo therapies that I went through in 2009/10 were worthwhile now.

OLIGO SCORE CARD Event Date Tumour-free years First diagnosed after craniotomy #1 1/11/1993 39 First recurrance and Craniotomy #2 1/11/2006 13 MRI showing signs of progression 1-Jan-09 2.2 Second Recurrance and Craniotomy #3 29-May-09 2.2 Completed Radiation Therapy 28-Aug-09 0.2 Started Chemotherapy with Temozolomide 12-Apr-10 0.8 Completed 12 mth chemotherapy 1-Apr-11 1.8 Watch and Sweat(wait) #1 22-Aug-12 3.2 Watch and Sweat(wait) #2 24-Oct-12 3.3 Watch and Sweat(wait) #3 29-Jan-13 3.7 Watch and Sweat(wait) #4 27-May-13 3.9 Watch and Sweat(wait) #5 3-Sep-13 4.3 Watch and Sweat(wait) #6 3-Dec-13 4.5 Watch and Sweat(wait) #7 4-Mar-14 4.8