FIVE kilometres of slipping and sliding through ankle-deep mud awaits an Upper Slaughter mum of two who has taken up the Race for Life Muddy challenge in memory of her sister.

Forty-two-year-old Tina Baggaley lost her sister Sue Winwood to ocular melanoma, a type of cancer affecting the eye, in 2012 when she was just 45 and leaving three children.

That same year Mrs Baggaley and a friend ran the Race for Life in Cheltenham in her sister's memory and raised £500 for Cancer Research.

Three years later and she feels it is time to have another go for the charity and is upping the ante by taking on a five kilometre assault course.

"I've been cycling off road as part of my training for the race which is at Cheltenham Racecourse in July. I expect it will be a lot tougher than the first race I did but I'm sure it will be great fun and it's all in a good cause.

"There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about Sue and I miss her terribly. Hopefully doing the Race for Life will raise lots of money for research into prevention and treatment of different cancers.

"I am hoping to smash my target of £300 by raising funds through a raffle where prizes have kindly been donated by local companies including a Champagne afternoon tea for two at Lower Slaughter Manor, a family day pass at Sudeley Castle, a beauty voucher from Stow Beauty, a signed book by Rebecca Tope from Borzoi Books, Cotswold Wildlife Tickets, Huffkins afternoon tea for two, beauty treatment from Sarah Edwards Beauty and many more prizes.

"Any donations through my Just Giving page: www.justgiving.com/tinabaggaley will be entered into the raffle, if they leave me their details," she added.

The rafle is expected to be drawn near the race date.