MANCHESTER has been chosen to host Cancer Research UK’s Tough 10 for the first time - a 10k trail run with challenging muddy slopes, thigh burning hills and tough terrain.

Cancer Research UK is daring men and women from across the region to take on the challenge and sign up for the event at Heaton Park on November 26, 2017.

Runners will be pitting themselves against some of the UK’s toughest terrain to raise money for life-saving research.

Each event in the Tough 10 series is marked tough, tougher or toughest based on the level of difficulty of each course.

The Heaton Park route is ranked tough so it’s suitable for regular runners or first timers looking for a challenge.

Kirsti Thompson, Cancer Research UK Event Manager, said: "Tough10 promises fierce inclines and stunning views to take your breath away. Every muddy slope conquered brings us a step closer to beating all cancers.”

Organisers hope around 600 people will enter Tough 10 in Manchester and raise around £35,000 to help Cancer Research UK’s scientists find new ways to prevent and diagnose the disease and to develop new, better and kinder treatments.

Cancer survival in the UK has doubled since the 1970s and Cancer Research UK’s work has been at the heart of that progress. But more supporters, more funds and more research is needed to help bring forward the day when all cancers are cured.

Kirsti continued: “We’ve got cancer on the run. Today 1 in 2 people diagnosed with the disease survive. But we need to do more. Our ambition is to accelerate progress and see 3 in 4 people surviving the disease by 2034. That’s why we urgently need as many people as possible to sign up for Tough 10 and to raise money to help fund vital research.

“There are over 200 types of cancer and we won’t stop until we’ve beaten them all. The more research we are able to fund the sooner that day will come.”

To enter Tough 10 visit cruk.org/tough10