Last updated 23:03, Saturday, 19 April 2008

Entries are now open for this year’s Race for Life in Carlisle.

For the second year running, there will be two races; one at 11am and the other at 3pm around the city’s Sheepmount Stadium on July 13.

The 5km – or three-mile course – aims to raise cash for Cancer Research UK.

Women can walk or run around the course, many of whom will have signs on their backs celebrating lives saved through pioneering treatment or lives lost to cancer. Organisers are hoping for 3,500 participants.

Entry is £12.50 per person and competitors can also buy merchandise including t-shirts, baseball caps and shoe laces.

Forty-six women have so far entered to take part in the morning race and five women have entered for the afternoon run.

Women can enter on their own or as part of a team.

The day usually begins with a fun aerobic warm-up before the ladies go under starter’s orders.

David McNeill, promotions manager with the News & Star, usually comperes the event and encourages women around the course.

Other races will also take place the Westmorland Showground near Kendal on June 1 at 11am, Barrow on June 8 at 11am and Dumfries on June 29 at 11am.

Tesco, Reebok and Nivea are the national sponsors.

• To enter, contact the Race for Life hotline on 0871 641 2282