Jane prepares for York challenge

Jane Tomlinson has run a series of gruelling races

Terminal cancer sufferer Jane Tomlinson is to tackle the York half marathon despite having just completed a gruelling course of chemotherapy.

Mrs Tomlinson, 39, a mother-of-three from Rothwell, Leeds, will take on the challenge only 10 days after finishing her latest treatment.

Mrs Tomlinson defied the odds three years ago when she was told she only had months to live.

The Brass Monkey Half Marathon takes place on Sunday 25 January.

'Rock bottom'

"It is absolutely unprecedented that anyone has run a half marathon having the treatment Jane has had," her husband Mike said.

"Her health is at rock bottom and she is still bald but she wants to do this to prove her fitness to herself."

Mrs Tomlinson is spending the next few days in the run-up to the race preparing for the York challenge, which she will run alongside her husband and brother Luke.

Mrs Tomlinson has run the London Triathlon, the London Marathon twice and completed the Gatorade Half Ironman Triathlon.

Last year, she cycled over 1,300 miles from John O'Groats to Land's End on a tandem bicycle with her brother, Luke.

She was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2003 and was named the UK's most inspirational woman by She magazine.