Leicester

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5 miles of Goodness

12 GoodGymers made their way 8.0km to help the Rotary Club of the Wreake Valley and Rotary Club of the Wreake Valley in Leicester.

  • Katy Young
  • Leicester runner
  • Jeanette Douglas
  • Jimmy Mitchinson
  • Martin Mcelwaine
  • Stu Coe
  • Sheila Oliver
  • Daniel Burns
  • Nick Pryke
  • Ashley Jackson
  • Sarah
  • David Merrett
 
Tuesday, 2nd of July 2024
 
Led by Sarah

12 fantastic GoodGymmers came out to support the Rotary Club of the Wreake Valley host their annual fundraiser the Watermead Challenge, 5 mile or 3 mile race around the lake quite a few times.

A beautiful evening to be running, the atmosphere was buzzing, so many Googymmers offering their help here's all their roles-

Dave, Mel and Daniel race directors very important jobs and very weldone. Welcome back Daniel long time Goodgymmer hope to see you at Junior parkrun soon.

Mel and Lorna taking care of any last minute sign ups, Mel also took some fantastic pics at every opportunity.

Jimmy, Ashley, Jen and Katy handing out race numbers very efficiently.

Martin and Sheila handing out their running club's numbers.

Martin and Jimmy then went on to marshall and cheer on all the runners. Jimmy had also cycled from home, a long way.

Nick and Stu were on car park duty, then Nick went on to manage the funnel at the finish and Stu gave his support during the race.

David our newest sign up came along running 8k from home, after checking all the volunteer roles were taken for during the race David took on a last minute race place. Weldone hope to see you on one of our group runs soon.

Jen, Ashley, myself and Katy all ran the 5 mile race and Mel tail walked the 3 mile supporting another runner.

Wow I haven't written a write-up with so many GoodGymmers all doing so many good things, really enjoyable evening, amazing running efforts keep up the great work and doing good at the same time, weldone team.

Report written by Sarah


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Sarah
Led by Sarah

Area Activator for Leicester loves running, cycling and recently swimming maybe a triathlon is on the cards.

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