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Stepping out to beat cancer
AT midnight on 17 May two Andover women will have just set off for a marathon charity power-walk around London in their bras.
Ceri Bissell, of Enham Alamein, and Marie Spanswick, head of PR at Testway Housing and a former Andover Adver-tiser reporter, are taking part in the Walk the Walk Playtex Moonwalk to raise money for breast cancer charities.
They will be power-walking 26 miles overnight around the sights of London with up to 15,000 other women, all of them wearing the Moonwalk's trademark decorated bras.
Ceri, a 41-year-old partner in PBA Accountants in Hungerford and mother of two young girls, said: "We're really excited. The training's gone well.
"We've been doing up to 40 miles a week and we've amused and entertained many a white van man as we've wobbled and hobbled around the streets of Andover and surrounding villages."
The friends are also excited by the thought of raising a stack of cash for the fight against breast cancer.
The day will have special significance because three years ago on that date one of their good friends, Emma Campbell from Little London, died of breast cancer, aged only 39, leaving behind two young daughters, aged three and seven.
Marie, a 39-year-old mum of three young boys, said: "When Emma died we grieved as friends and mums and we walk as friends and mums.
"We know Emma would have been with us, if she could, prancing around London, through the night in our bras. And they would have been much more stylishly decorated if she'd been around."
The friends are expecting to finish the 26-mile course in about seven hours and hope to raise at least £1,000.
To sponsor Ceri and Marie and support breast cancer charities log-on to www.justgiving.com/ceri andmariemoonwalk
1:32pm Monday 12th May 2008
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