Tributes have been paid to a talented runner who died of skin cancer after a four-and-a-half-year battle against the disease.
Simon Hoff who grew up in Cholsey and lived in Wantage, died at Oxford's Churchill Hospital last month, aged 35.
The Oxford Athletic Club runner was a keen sportsman, and last March, just two months after a gruelling course of treatment, competed in the Reading Half-Marathon, raising £550 for research into the disease.
His parents John and Sylvia, of Cholsey, said: "His positive attitude through each stage of his illness was courageous. He was always looking to get through the next treatment and get back to some form of exercise. Sport was his life."
Mr Hoff, took up running seriously after he won the first Cholsey Fun Run in 1986, when he was 16.
He joined the Oxford Athletic Club, and was ranked among the top five per cent of the country's middle-distance runners.
His funeral was held at St Mary's Church in Cholsey.
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