That piece of paper sat in his car for a month.

He finally found time to go, and it possibly saved his life.

“My PSA (prostate-specific antigen) was up and I was referred to a specialist,” Hore said.

“He thought it was an infection so he put me on a course of tablets for a month, but when I went back the PSA hadn’t moved.

“I had a biopsy and it showed prostate cancer, it was an eight out of 10 scale.”

So the cancer journey started.

Three weeks in Melbourne, which included a catheter for 10 days to drain fluids from the body.

But the-then 46-year-old was one of the lucky ones.

He didn’t require chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

“It’s called the silent killer, and early detection can save your life,” Hore said.

“It saved mine.”

Hore had always been into swimming and cycling before his diagnosis.

But he wanted something more, and fell in love with running.

“I can’t really put my finger on why I love it so much, it just makes me tick,” he said.

He joined a boot camp and starting running five kilometres.

He was then asked if he wanted to try 10km. He replied, ‘hell yeah’.

He ran the 10km event at the 2013 Melbourne Marathon.

“I ran a lap of the MCG, and was sitting in the grandstand, thinking, ‘geez, this is all right’.

He made a pact right there, targeting a half-marathon.

He clocked up four in 2014, then set himself for the ultimate – a 42.2km nightmare.

But rather than being intimidated, Hore lapped up the challenge.

“I kept looking for goals, and while it’s tough, you get out of it what you put in,” he said.

He spotted an ad on the internet about running the New York Marathon for Movember.

But the applicants had to tell their cancer story.

The organisers liked Hore’s piece, and now he’s joining a team of 15 from around the world in a cancer team. He had to raise $4800 though. He’s just gone past $7000.

“It’s awesome, the support from people has been amazing, and I’ve grown a mo, it’s the first one I’ve ever grown and it’s not very good,” he laughed.

Marathoners often talk about hitting the wall, a moment where either their mind or body, or maybe both, struggles.

“It’s 90 per cent mental, but when I run, I never look back, and it’s the same with the prostate,” he said.

“I think of sitting in hospital with the catheter. You can get knocked down, but you can always bounce back.”

Hore has a best time of four hours and nine minutes for the marathon.

He’d love to go under four.

“It’d be a dream to get that,” he said.

“But what this is really about is raising awareness.”