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Leith & North: Please email any news items to: news@leithandnorth.org.uk Race For Life 2009, Edinburgh: Women walk and run to celebrate love and life, humanity and hopeSix women from the Dalkeith and Gorebridge area with shocling pink Lady Gaga wigs and pink boas with their Tesco gift bags at the end of the race

Thousands of women from all over South Scotland gathered to remember loved ones lost to cancer and to run jog and walk a 10k course round Salisbury Crags to raise money for Cancer Research. The date was a misty Midsummer Sunday morning, June 28th; the venue was Edinburgh's historic Holyrood Park.

All women ran with notes attached to their back, some with photos, which declared who they were running for - some lost to cancer, some surviving. After the run, these were put up on a kind of memorial fence. One runner shared that running behind people, and glimsping their stories was a very emotional part of the day's experience.

Cancer Reserch UK web site >>>

Around ten women in the foreground stretching their hamstrings, with others visible behind. Most of them are smiling ^^^ Above: warming up in a mass work out routine

 Cancer Research UK were hoping to break through their fundraising target of £55,484. Leith & North will bring you more as the facts and figures come in, but for now enjoy the pictures which tell the story of the day - from the gathering and the warm up session, to the walk-run itself, to the arrival back in Holyrood Park, job done.

 Man in white tee shirt with black and white pom poms Girl around nine with banner Left <<<:The official race cheerleader.
Right >>>: A family shows support. Women in pink running Women in pink walking Left <<<: Some runners set off.
Right >>>: Minnie Mouse and friend. Women in pink walking up the pink ribboned lanes collecting congratulations, bottles of water and pink Tesco gift bags
^^^ Above: the runners come in to a warm welcome, lucky bags and drinking water

 A rather tired but cheerful woman in a blue tee shirt with a rather tired but cheerful woman in a red tee shirt Five women in black with shocking pink tutus Left <<<:The first and third placed runners, who turn out to be neighbours.
Right >>>: Five Stars Leith Academy banner (white letters on blue) with Holyrood Palace behind in the mist. and various staff and pupils ^^^ Above: Pupils and staff from Leith Academy

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 Two women in blue tee shirts, one standing one seated Five smiling women in shocking pink, purple and blue with Salisbury crags behind Left <<<: Two members of West Pilton Neighbourhood Team
Right >>>: Belly dancers who practise in South Leith Parish Church Seven smiling women with fluffy white tinsel trimmed halo-halo-haloes Four women in orange and pink smiling with Holyrood Palace in the background Left <<<: One quarter of the 28 runners from Leith Job Centre Plus.
Right >>>: Runners from Sikh Sanjog, Leith Sikh Sanjog web site >>>

Two women with candy floss pink clown wigs Three women after the race Left <<<:Some clowns are a force for good
Right >>>: A woman with friends showing her DAD note on her back.

 Group of women in lilac Tanz: Race For Life tee shirts ^^^ Above: The Tanz team bring some lilac to the proceedings.

Find out how to enteer Edinburgh's Race for Life 2010 - 5k & 10k >>>

Race for Life 2010, Edinburgh will take place on June 13th, starting once again, in Holyrood Park.

Women peg the notes that were on their backs as they ran to a memorial fence