#cancer-recovery

#cancer-recovery

From running with his father, with whom he had a seemingly difficult and complex relationship, to using running to navigate recovery from thyroid cancer, to diving deep into training with Nike to try to run the Chicago Marathon in a new personal best at the age of 44, Thompson explores how this simple sport has driven, dictated, and helped him navigate the bigger questions in life.

"I made the decision when I was diagnosed in 2022 with Hodgkin lymphoma that I wasn't going to let that define my life and dictate how I was going to go about my life."

Surviving cancer is like watching fireworks explode brilliantly in the sky. You've made it. You've done your time in the chemo chair, lain under the arc of the radiation machine.

The study highlighted that combining structured exercise with chemotherapy can improve overall health outcomes in colon cancer recovery, showing that exercise should complement medical treatments.

"You put on a sort of brave face, stoicism through treatment, treatment's done - then it's like 'I can crack on, get back to normal'. But actually the phase afterwards is really difficult..."

"I wanted a strong frame. I wanted a powerful engine, but I spent so much time building this car, I forgot how to drive it. That's what I'm doing now."

I got the good news the day the baby was born. So I heard the news and I was so excited, and then Luc called us and he said, 'Hey, the baby just was born.'