\u00a35,000<\/a>\u00a0for brain tumour charities through their efforts.<\/p>\nKatie Liddell and Natalie Cain who are running the London Marathon (Image: Supplied) Their father Peter Watson, a well-known club steward at the York Railway Institute, died two years ago aged 70.<\/p>\n
He fought a \u201cshort but courageous 10-week battle\u201d after being diagnosed with grade four glioblastoma \u2013 an aggressive, fast growing brain tumour.<\/p>\n
Natalie said his death left a \u201chole in our hearts and lives\u201d.<\/p>\n
The twins are also running in memory of their cousin Brydie Fox who died earlier this year aged 38, leaving behind two young children, Jack and Isla.<\/p>\n
Brydie was also diagnosed with a glioblastoma and died after a \u201c10-month courageous battle\u201d, Natalie said.<\/p>\n
Peter Watson and Brydie Fox who both died from brain tumours (Image: Supplied) Natalie, who works in the rail industry, and Katie, who works for City of York Council, are raising money for Brain Tumour Research and Children with Cancer UK.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the sisters said they would be \u201cthinking of those that are in pain everyday\u201d during the run.<\/p>\n
\u201cPutting ourselves through the hard work and pain of a marathon is nothing compared to the pain and heartache many people go through who are affected by brain tumours and cancer,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith several half marathons under our belt it\u2019s time to take on a tougher challenge and help make a difference for those life’s lost, touched and affected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Identical twins from York are preparing to run the London Marathon in memory of their father and cousin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[25715,748,25719,393,4884,25718,25714,257,17450,25713,25717,16,15,25716],"class_list":{"0":"post-46840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-brain-tumours","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-brydie-fox","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-identical-twins","14":"tag-katie-liddell","15":"tag-london","16":"tag-london-marathon","17":"tag-natalie-cain","18":"tag-peter-watson","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-york-railway-institute"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114393463122580661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}