Ride Strong with Katrina: Together Against Breast Cancer

These conversations are crucial and far too rare.

I’ve spent years living with adenomyosis, navigating invisible pain, and carrying symptoms that most people never see. Then came triple‑positive breast cancer. Then medically induced menopause. And I’ve faced all of this as a Deaf woman, adding isolation on top of isolation, silence on top of silence.

This year, I turned 50. I was meant to run a 12K with my daughter in Ibiza 2 years ago. Instead, I found a lump then another and everything changed overnight. Treatment began immediately. Life shifted. Plans dissolved.

But I’m still here. Still moving. Still fighting.

And I needed something that reminded me of that. So I’m cycling 311 miles (500km) from London to Paris in four days. It’s huge. It’s emotional. And it’s for charities doing work that saves lives and holds people together when everything falls apart.

Out of all of this, I founded Strength in Fragments CIC ( strengthinfragments.uk ) because people deserve support that is trauma‑informed, Deaf‑friendly, rural‑aware and rooted in lived experience. Not polished. Not perfect. Real.

We are creating care boxes for people who feel forgotten. We will run creative wellbeing activities for those who need space to breathe. We offer Deaf‑friendly support because accessibility shouldn’t be optional. We give wellbeing breaks to people who are exhausted from surviving.

Strength in Fragments CIC exists because I know what it feels like to fall apart quietly and what it means when someone shows up anyway.

This ride is part of that same mission. It’s my way of saying: even in the hardest seasons, we can still choose connection, compassion, and hope.

If you want to support the charities I’m cycling for or stand with the work we’re building through Strength in Fragments CIC, your contribution genuinely matters.

Let’s pedal together for strength, for healing and for hope.