Kimberley Ward was a touch uncomfortable at Tauranga Domain on Saturday - but not for the reasons you might expect.
She was about one month removed from the last of six doses of chemotherapy for breast cancer - which left her in hospital with sepsis and an ear infection - and about a fortnight away from a month's worth of radiotherapy that runs five days a week.
Despite her resistance to various types of anti-nausea medications, Ward was mostly at ease with her position at the 12-hour Breast Cancer Support Service Tauranga Trust fundraising run held in her honour at Tauranga Domain.
The only thing that seemed to be getting to her, aside from the touching support of more than 100 runners including fellow Beyond Personal Training boot camp partners, was that too much of the attention was on her.
As such, she did her best to divert the focus to promoting the support service, and came close to tears when praising the efforts of organisers Dave Jaggs and Sophie Irving, whose boot camps she began attending in November 2012.