Are you taking the 'P'

Sun 17 June, starts at 9am from Rowntree Park

It's time for men get out their running shoes and raise money for charity.

The annual York prostate cancer fun run is looking for hundreds of runners, and walkers, willing to spend Father’s Day completing a scenic three miles in and around the city centre. The only criteria for taking part in the third R U Taking the P? run is to be male.

Sporting prowess is not necessary and entrants are welcome to run, jog, walk or use a wheelchair to cover the route. Already some men who have survived prostate cancer have signed up.
 

Joint organiser Brian Hughes, of York Knavesmire Harriers, said thousands of women turn out every year for the annual Race for Life in aid of breast cancer, but prostate cancer is barely spoken about, despite 37,000 new cases being diagnosed every year in the UK.

The race on Father’s Day, starts outside the main gates of Rowntree Park and takes the runners and walkers over the Millennium, Skeldergate and Blue Bridges, through Tower Gardens and St George’s Field, up to Clifford’s Tower and in two loops round Rowntree Park itself.

Entry forms are available from Brian Hair Fashions, 54 South Bank Avenue, and from Yorkshire Cancer Research’s website on yorkshirecancerresearch.org.uk