Hundreds of women took part in a charity run in Inverness yesterday to raise funds for cancer research.
Wearing pink t-shirts, the runners completed a 5k or 10k run around a course taking in Bught park and Ness Islands.
Despite the cold, wet weather, hundreds of spectators turned out to see their friends and family cross the finish line at Queens Park Stadium.
Last year’s event included more than 2,270 women and raised around £145,000 for Cancer Research UK.
The charity’s event manager for the Inverness Race, Jane Glasgow said: “Race for Life is not competitive and it’s not about being fit or fast. It’s about thousands of women coming together to show cancer who’s boss.”
Among those taking part was Leeanne Curry, a 36-year-old mother of two from Inverness.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer a month after her 34th birthday but went on to beat the disease.
She had surgery and five and a half months of chemotherapy and finished treatment in December 2012.
As she was coming to terms with her own illness, Ms Curry discovered her father Stanley was diagnosed with cancer. He is also recovering after treatment.
However, Ms Curry is now going for a double mastectomy later this year, after a gene test confirmed she is a carrier of the BRCA1 gene, which increase her risk of developing breast cancer.
Ms Curry said: “When I found out I was a carrier of this gene and that I have a high chance that the cancer could come back I decided to have preventative surgery. I have given it a year since treatment finished. I wanted to live my life a bit and get over what I had been through first.”