Local runner’s pink race to beat breast cancer
Press Release For immediate release: 2 August 2010 Press contact: Louise Garrahan, Media Relations Officer, Breast Cancer Campaign, DD 0207 749 3724, Email: lgarrahan@breastcancercampaign.org Local runner’s pink race to beat breast cancer Budding runner Clair Gunning from Keighley, West Yorkshire, has pulled on her running shoes to train for the Bupa Great North Run in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign. The learning and development officer at Job centre Plus will join 54,000 runners on the starting line for the 13.1 mile race in Newcastle on Sunday 19 September after a close friend Lynn Crangle was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2009. Lynn is under going Chemotherapy and is coping well. Clair: “I’m very excited to take on the Great North Run for Breast Cancer Campaign, as raising money for research into this disease is a cause close to my heart. I felt truly helpless when I was told of Lynn’s news and desperately wanted to do something to help. Lynn is a true inspiration to me and I hope lots of people will dig deep to sponsor me for my challenge and help the charity take a step closer to beating breast cancer.” Clair is also undertaking a number of other challenges to raise money for Breast Cancer Campaign including cycling from Agra to Jaipur in India in February 2011 and cycling Liverpool to Leeds in July. Clair added: “These challenges will not come easy to me as in February this year I could barely run a mile and hadn’t ridden a bike since childhood. I am training hard and hope that people will get behind me by supporting this cause.” To help Clair reach her fundraising target of £5,000 please visit http://www.justgiving.com/Clair-Gunning and donate what you can. Last year 300 Campaign runners wore their pink running vests with pride and raised a whopping £160,000 for vital breast cancer research. So if you have your own place in the race and would like to join Clair on Campaign’s team, please call the events team on 020 7749 3700 or email greatnorthrun@breastcancercampaign.org. All runners who sign up with Campaign will automatically become a member of Linford’s All Stars – an exclusive club captained by Linford Christie, who offers supporters helpful training tips and nutritional advice. Runners will also receive a fundraising pack containing a Breast Cancer Campaign running vest and lots of fundraising ideas. Ends Picture caption: Clair Gunning 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 108 research projects, worth over £16.5 million, in 39 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/
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