Sharing goals on Bill’s footie march
Kev and Jeff Stelling on a previous march, inset Bill Turnbull
If you read this between 7am and 7pm I’ll probably be somewhere between Wembley Stadium and Wycombe Wanderers FC walking a marathon.
It’s not unusual for me to be completing the marathon distance, but this event is my walking highlight because it’s the Prostate Cancer UK Football March with my celebrity buddy, broadcasting legend Jeff Stelling, and 360 others.
This will be my 22nd marathon with Jeff for the charity and I don’t think any other supporter has done more with him since he started doing these in 2016.
While every marathon hiked is for every man, their families, friends and colleagues who have been touched by prostate cancer, this one is particularly poignant because it’s for the late BBC presenter and journalist, Bill Turnbull.
Bill was cruelly taken by this disease last year having been diagnosed in 2017. Thinking of Bill, as I have and will do when walking, will again remind me just how lucky I am to still be here, having been diagnosed in 2014.
While the walk will be in memory of Bill and too many others – like my friends Si, Lloyd and Cliff – it is also a celebration of those of us lucky enough to be here due to the giant advancements in treatment and awareness thanks to the hard work of Prostate Cancer UK and its supporters.
I am looking forward to meeting up with so many who I have got to know since I walked my first Jeff March back in 2016.
I particularly like to chat with the men who, due to early diagnosis, have been cured of this disease and who want to give back to share their good fortune (in what is still a bad situation) of being cured. They are all there making a noise about prostate cancer. Just like me, while I can.
I hope that if you are able, you too support this or any cause that matters to you, your family or friends, because that is how we will make the future better for so many others.