Muddy good fun: Thousands take part in Weston Park challenge
Pretty muddy and still smiling – 2,000 women took part in the third Race for Life Pretty Muddy event at Weston Park, raising about £50,000 for charity.
From teenagers to grandmothers, they completed 5km and 10km obstacle courses which included cargo nets, slides and of course lots of mud.
Organiser Emily Thompson said those taking part in Saturday’s event on the Shropshire-Staffordshire border came from as far afield as Welshpool as well as from Wolverhampton and the West Midlands.
Now working for Cancer Research, Emily started fundraising when her mother, Denise Smith, who died in 2005, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Her father, David, is a cancer survivor, having been diagnosed in 2009. “It is a very emotional event. There are so many people who take part in memory of friends and family or because they are cancer survivors,” she said.
It is holding its traditional Race for Life runs in Walsall on May 14, Wolverhampton on June 7, Dudley on July 9 and Sandwell Valley September 30,
