RACE FOR LIFE 2010 INFO>>>

WOMEN across Hampshire are being encouraged to pull on their trainers and put their best foot forward for Race for Life 2010.

Latest figures reveal that every day, around 109 people are diagnosed with cancer in the south east – that’s more-than 39,600 people each year.

Yesterday Cancer Research UK launched Race For Life 2010 – and they’re hoping thousands of women in Hampshire will sign up to take part.

Race for Life is the UK’s largest women-only fundraising event series where all the money raised goes to fund Cancer Research UK’s life-saving work.

This year Race for Life in Southampton takes place on Sunday, July 11.

The organisers are hoping 10,000 women will help raise £526,000.

Race for Life in Winchester takes place on Sunday, June 13. It is hoped 2,300 women will raise £160,000, Race for Life allows women of all ages and fitness abilities to join together to walk, jog or run 5k to help beat cancer.

Race for Life started in 1994. At the time, many people diagnosed with cancer did not survive. But over the last 16 years, money generated by Race for Life has supported Cancer Research UK’s work and now the overall death rate for the disease has dropped by 15 per cent.

Hampshire participants will be part of a total of 700,000 women taking part in over 230 events across the UK between May and July. Cancer Research UK hopes that together they will raise a total of £60 million to fund the charity’s life saving work.

RACE FOR LIFE 2010 INFO>>>