![Parkes' Rebecca Miller [right] with friend Marguerite Burns, her key source of inspiration for doing a 350-kilometre run for cancer research](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/z3a8w56CNwsCzkzwrGewmE/dba4db48-44c8-4088-b5e6-33b60090e5b1.jpg/r0_225_672_872_w576_h298_fmax.webp "Parkes' Rebecca Miller [right] with friend Marguerite Burns, her key source of inspiration for doing a 350-kilometre run for cancer research")
Parkes woman Rebecca Miller will embark on a 350-kilometre run to Sydney to fundraise for cancer research, with Bathurst to be one of her stops along the way.
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Ms Miller hosted a community event in Parkes on Sunday to launch her run from Parkes to Westmead Children's Hospital in Sydney.
She was originally scheduled to complete the run in September last year, but was put on hold due to COVID-19.
On Monday, Ms Miller will head to Orange, and will reach Bathurst on Wednesday and Lithgow on Thursday.
On Friday and Saturday, April 16 and 17, she'll be in Katoomba and arriving at the Children's Hospital at Westmead about 11am on Sunday, April 18.
Ms Miller has named her fundraiser The Ripple of Kindness Project and she's raising funds for the Leukaemia Foundation, Bandaged Bear, Carrie's Beanies for Brain Cancer and Can Assist.
She has a GoFundMe page where people can donate to support her plight to raise $100,000 to be split between the charities.
She raised $24,325 before her journey began.
Ms Miller said there were a couple of reasons how her Ripple of Kindness Project started - she shaved her head two years ago in support of her close friend Marguerite Burns, who was diagnosed with breast cancer.
The idea for the fundraiser also came about when another friend Jody Wyburn lost her beautiful eight-year-old daughter Lilly to leukaemia in November 2017 - a disease that Lilly had battled for most of her life.
Lilly was heavily supported by the Leukaemia Foundation while she underwent treatment in Sydney for months on end.
Ms Miller has shown a great deal of grit and persistence to get this fundraiser off the ground, experiencing a number of obstacles and setbacks along the way, including a hip injury due to overtraining in 2019 which meant she had to rest for six months to heal.
For more information, visit The Ripple of Kindness Project Facebook page.
This story first appeared in the Parkes Champion Post.
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Christine Little
I love sharing people's stories, particularly local stories that are special and important to the people of Parkes. If there is one thing I have learnt in my 10 years of community journalism, it's that stories are everywhere. All it takes is a good story teller to make it worth reading. Email: christine.little@parkeschampionpost.com.au
I love sharing people's stories, particularly local stories that are special and important to the people of Parkes. If there is one thing I have learnt in my 10 years of community journalism, it's that stories are everywhere. All it takes is a good story teller to make it worth reading. Email: christine.little@parkeschampionpost.com.au
