Day 995 | Kids. Cancer.

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When put together, possibly the worst combination of words you can find. It’s one of those things that until I became a parent, I didn’t really hear much about.

Then you come across the stories about people affected and have this perception that it doesn’t happen to anyone you know. But the more it becomes talked about in the open, the more you realise how many people have had direct impact with childhood cancer right here in North-West TAS.

The Tim Blair Run For Kids Foundation does a power of work in this space and again on the weekend hosted an event with cyclists riding 170km in some of the worst possible weather conditions to raise money for affected families. Tim and his foundation crew along with the dead-set legends that made the trip, are all probably still feeling the pain from a terrible day on the bike but all of them explain it away as just doing their bit.

We had a basketball tournament on the weekend and while we sadly fell one step short in the Grand Final, I asked our team if they would wear yellow armbands for our games to represent Children’s cancer month. I promised we would make a donation if they did. It wasn’t at all a hard sell because they had all remembered the ‘nice man that came and spoke at the school’ recently. No surprises, that man was Tim Blair.

He doesn’t stop.

So to all the riders from the weekend, you’re the best humans going around. And to my basketball boys, I’m crazy proud of you.

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