Plan your post-Christmas health kick by signing up to the Silverstone Half Marathon 2011

12/6/2010 3:00 AM EST

Press Release

For immediate release: 6 December 2010
Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign,
DD 0207 749 4115, Email:  

Plan your post-Christmas health kick by signing up to the Silverstone Half Marathon 2011

Breast Cancer Campaign is urging all runners to lace up their trainers and join the race to beat breast cancer at the adidas Silverstone Half Marathon 2011.

The charity has 10 places available for the 13.1mile race at the Silverstone race track on Sunday 6 March, and with Christmas just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to sign up and prepare your training programme for the end of the festivities.

Julia Petrukhina, Events Assistant at Breast Cancer Campaign, said: “More than 6,000 runners will speed off from the starting line and we want you on our team to run for research. What better way to burn off those Christmas calories than training for this half marathon while raising money to help us fund world-class research? Please sign up and show your support for the 3,800 people who will sadly be diagnosed with breast cancer this December.”

Runners have until 1 February 2010 to apply for a charity place with Breast Cancer Campaign so if you would like to register, or for more information, please call 0207 749 4114, email   or visit www.breastcancercampaign.org

As a Linford’s All Stars runner you will receive a professional running vest and an
information pack crammed with nutritional and training advice from team captain Linford Christie.

ENDS

Picture caption: Breast Cancer Campaign runners

Notes to editors
• Breast Cancer Campaign aims to beat breast cancer by funding innovative world-class research to understand how breast cancer develops, leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure
• Currently it supports 104 research projects, worth over £16.1 million, in 38 centres of excellence across the UK and Ireland
• Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK and accounts for nearly one in three of all cancers in women
• In the UK, nearly 46,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year - that’s 125 a day
• Visit www.breastcancercampaign.org
• Read Chief Executive Pamela Goldberg’s blog http://pamelagoldbergblog.blogspot.com/