Thousands of people have already signed up for next year's Jane Tomlinson's Leeds 10k Run For All... and it hasn't even been launched.
* Click here to sign up to free news and sport email alerts from Rothwell Today.The cancer heroine's widower, Mike, told the YEP that runners had signed up in droves as he launched a bike ride in Leeds in which 300 fund-raisers saddled up on behalf of Jane's Appeal.
He was in Rothwell to launch the biking event along with son Steven. Riders were raising cash for the Jane Tomlinson Appeal and the adult cystic fibrosis unit at St James's Hospital, Leeds.
The Rothwell District Lions Club's fifth Wild Boar Challenge started and finished in Rothwell Country Park, taking riders 50 kilometres off-road through parkland, woods, canal towpaths, cycle paths and the grounds of Temple Newsam House.
Mike said: "The Lions have been good to us. They sent a lot of volunteers to the 10k. It's a pleasure to be here."
The next Jane Tomlinson Run for All is scheduled for June 21, next year.
"We already have had 2,500 entries for Jane's race. It's amazing," said
Mike.
Jane died in September, 2007, after a long battle against cancer. In that time she raised more than £1.5m for charity in a series of gruelling athletic challenges.
Mike completed the Great North Run earlier this month and added: "I did it in one hour 47minutes. I wanted to beat Jane's personal best – and I did."
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