Marathons on the horizon for staff
Two TCA staff members are taking on a marathon challenge in aid of charity.
Two TCA staff members are taking on a marathon challenge in aid of charity.
Head of music Gayna O’Rourke and Inclusion staff member Laura Evans will be tackling the 26 mile run in a bid to raise funds for cancer causes.
Mrs O’Rourke will be running the Edinburgh Marathon in May 2016 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of when she underwent life-saving chemotherapy and radiation treatment for Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
She will run along with her husband Liam to raise funds for Leukaemia Care.
She said: “Leukaemia and HD are diseases which are rare and mainly affect children and young adults; the treatments are brutal, long term and isolating.
“I am doing a marathon as a way of saying ‘this is what my body can achieve’.”
Miss Evans is running the London Marathon in April in aid of Children’s With Cancer. She said: “I ran the Great Eastern Run in October and after that said I would not do a half marathon again, but now here I am attempting the London Marathon.
“It has always been something that I wanted to do and am really looking forward to it.”
Both runners have an online account at which you can sponsor their marathon effort.
To sponsor Mrs O’Rourke visit
https://www.justgiving.com/Gayna-O-Rourke1
To sponsor Miss Evans visit