1500km In Lockdown
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As you should have seen Goldthorpe Scouts have removed the monthly subs for the next few months, while we can’t actively meet face to face. So since the beginning of April, while the sun has been out and we have been in lock down, I’ve been working on a personal challenge and now its time to change this personal challenge into a way to raise some money that can go towards the Scout Group to contribute to the badges that all the Beavers, Cubs and Scouts are working towards while we are in lockdown. We also have some amazing NHS workers who help in our Group week in week out so with everything that is going on and the reliance we have on the NHS when people need them, we will donate to their wards in Sheffield and Doncaster. Originally my plan was to split the funds raised three ways, but following our recent sad news I have decided any money raised will be split four ways, sending the fourth amount to the charity/charities that the family of our Scout leader and my friend William Goddard decide best reflects his memory.
For Goldthorpe Scouts - Ongoing support of the Scout Group, Badges, Camp Equipment and its running costs.
For Vicky Fairclough - Doncaster and Bassetlaw Renal Care and Dialysis Ward 32.
For Jenni Meakin - Sheffield Northern General - Cardiac Surgery Ward Chesterman 4.
In Memory of William Goddard, a Scout Leader in Goldthorpe, his family have decided money should be sent to Freeman Heart & Lung Transplant Association.
So back to the challenge. As some of you know, I’ve started running, so when I woke up on the 1st of April my watch pinged and said my monthly challenge was walk or run 400km… So I thought I could do that. We are in lockdown, I go for a run, I walk the dogs, I walk to the coffee machine when I’m working …. Then I worked it out, the coffee machine is 1.5m from my home office chair, and I need to run or walk 13.5km a day to make 400km. After deciding relying on coffee journeys wouldn’t cut it ( I couldn’t afford that much coffee, and after all that coffee I wouldn’t sleep anyway.) So I thought, I could do it, I’d just completed March’s challenge, which was to burn 36,000 active calories. However I’m a little bit crazy at the moment with being locked in the home, not socialising, not going to Scouts, not taking the kids to their evening activities, so I thought why not do 1500km, now that is crazy right?… but I’m not that crazy (contrary to popular opinion), so I thought I’d give myself 3 months to do it, but then to make it interesting I thought I may as well do some other craziness, so I'll try a marathon, yes that’s right 26 point something miles I probably won’t run it all but I will do 42.2km (km equivalent to a marathon) in the last day of May. Then the remainder of the 1500km will be completed in June.
It would really mean a lot to all the Leaders if we can hit our target, and while our expectation is small it will make a massive impact to all the Children when we eventually return that their Scout troop is still operating, that the two NHS wards we want to donate to, have the thanks that their Nurses, our Leaders, deserve from Goldthorpe Scouts, and most importantly the Memory of our Scout Leader, William Goddard will be remembered by his family passing on their thanks to the Charity that they feel best reflects Will’s memory.
For Goldthorpe Scouts - Ongoing support of the Scout Group, Badges, Camp Equipment and its running costs.
For Vicky Fairclough - Doncaster and Bassetlaw Renal Care and Dialysis Ward 32.
For Jenni Meakin - Sheffield Northern General - Cardiac Surgery Ward Chesterman 4.
In Memory of William Goddard, a Scout Leader in Goldthorpe, his family have decided money should be sent to Freeman Heart & Lung Transplant Association.
So back to the challenge. As some of you know, I’ve started running, so when I woke up on the 1st of April my watch pinged and said my monthly challenge was walk or run 400km… So I thought I could do that. We are in lockdown, I go for a run, I walk the dogs, I walk to the coffee machine when I’m working …. Then I worked it out, the coffee machine is 1.5m from my home office chair, and I need to run or walk 13.5km a day to make 400km. After deciding relying on coffee journeys wouldn’t cut it ( I couldn’t afford that much coffee, and after all that coffee I wouldn’t sleep anyway.) So I thought, I could do it, I’d just completed March’s challenge, which was to burn 36,000 active calories. However I’m a little bit crazy at the moment with being locked in the home, not socialising, not going to Scouts, not taking the kids to their evening activities, so I thought why not do 1500km, now that is crazy right?… but I’m not that crazy (contrary to popular opinion), so I thought I’d give myself 3 months to do it, but then to make it interesting I thought I may as well do some other craziness, so I'll try a marathon, yes that’s right 26 point something miles I probably won’t run it all but I will do 42.2km (km equivalent to a marathon) in the last day of May. Then the remainder of the 1500km will be completed in June.
It would really mean a lot to all the Leaders if we can hit our target, and while our expectation is small it will make a massive impact to all the Children when we eventually return that their Scout troop is still operating, that the two NHS wards we want to donate to, have the thanks that their Nurses, our Leaders, deserve from Goldthorpe Scouts, and most importantly the Memory of our Scout Leader, William Goddard will be remembered by his family passing on their thanks to the Charity that they feel best reflects Will’s memory.
Organizer
Mark Davis
Organizer