Helping Headway and supporting half marathon athletes
8 GoodGymers made their way 1.9km to help the Headway, Running Colchester, and Colchester Half Marathon in Colchester.
- Sunday, 22nd of May 2022
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What a stunning day to volunteer at a half marathon and support all the runners and their amazing and diverse reasons to run. It was a pleasure to support the Headway volunteers and the police cadets. The Goodgymers were stationed on East Hill around the three mile mark to encourage and cheer runners and to become amateur traffic police! We are a bit biased so the loudest cheers came for Louise, Emma and Dan!
Despite the event highlighting how (needlessly?) reliant people are on driving into our city centre, the runners looked happy, safe and quite pleased to be running downhill after the effort of North Hill and with the gradual Ipswich road incline ahead!
As I write WhatsApp is buzzing with news from end of the race...the volunteers and cheer squad went for a coffee and a cake and I hope the runners relax and recoup however they enjoy the most!
Well done everyone, you all managed the same distance, and well done to the organizers and volunteers for doing Colchester proud.
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