An incredible person, Jane Tomlinson

Last month we did in class the song I will survive. Few days later, I listened on the radio the life of an incredible person, Jane Tomlinson. She always looked up on herself just an ordinary woman with cancer but her extraordinary tenacity is an extraordinary example for all of people who are suffering in one moment of her life.
In 1991 at the age of 26 , the doctors said to her that she had breast cancer. In 2002, Jane Tomilson was told that the cancer had spread to her bone, and lungs. The doctors said that she could expected to live 6 months. It is in this moment when the incredible life of this mother starts . She took on series of apparently imposible challenges, for someone who is suffering from cancer and undergoing chemotheraphy treatment. In May of 2001, she took part in her first challenge, the 5 Km Race for Life. She finished with any problem. She decided to continue running. She also run in the 2001, London and New York Marathons. She is the first who finished this with terminal cancer. In August of the same year she rode with her brother 1060 miles bike (from John O’Grats to the meridian of Land’s End).
Obviously she became famous, when she was aked why she is doing this, she explain that: “ My mission in life is to make the most of every day and to help others.” She uses this thing that becomes famous to creat Jane’s Appeal ( www.janesappeal.com) to rise substancial funds for a Cancer and Children’s Charities. They have now more or less 1.9 millions of Euros.
In 2004 she makes also with her brother a tandem to cycle from Rome to Leeds an d climbed Mont Ventoux douring the journey.
Her most incredible to me is that she did the Ironman in Florida. An Ironman is 4km swiming , 180 Km bike ride an a full marathon (42.195Km). She did in only 15 hours 48 minutes and 32 seconds. The most for normal people is 17 hours
The last thing she did before she died in 2007, seven years later her diagnosis; was her huge challenge a 6781,8 Km ride coast to coast of the United States.