The total is believed to top the £500,000 raised by the 2007 run by a massive £250,000.
Football legend Eddie Gray and BBC sports presenter Gabby Logan will today join Mrs Tomlinson's widower, Mike, in Leeds to kick off next year's annual fundrais
er.
It is hoped that 15,000 people will join the Run For All in Leeds in 2009 to raise £1m for charity.
The run is just a part of the great legacy of Mrs Tomlinson, who organised the inaugural Leeds 10k. She was too ill to take part in the event but was at the finish line to clap home everyone who entered.
The inspirational mother-of-three, from Rothwell, Leeds, defied doctors, who gave her just months to live in 2000, and raised more than £1.75m through gruelling endurance events.
She took part in a series of challenges to raise money for charity – including three London Marathons, several triathlons and an epic 4,000-mile coast to coast ride across America.
The 43-year-old NHS radiographer lost her seven-year battle with cancer in September 2007.
Mrs Tomlinson's son, Steven, 10, followed in his mother's footsteps in June when he officially started this year's 10k race, which was supported by the Yorkshire Post as a media partner.
He was joined at the event, less than 10 months after Mrs Tomlinson's death, by his father and sisters Suzanne and Rebecca.
Runners gave a one-minute round of applause in tribute to Mrs Tomlinson before the race got under way.
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