This morning I went to the launch of
Living Sport's Sportmakers initiative in Cambridgeshire. It was held at Milton Country Park, coinciding with the Cambridge Parkrun.
Sportmakers is an initiative aimed at getting more people involved in running sports events. The aim in Cambridgeshrie is to get 600 people to commit 10hours to organising an event of some sort - even if it is someone encouraging and getting some of their mates to run once a week. The programme runs until September 2013, giving ample opportunity to capture the enthusiasm that the Olympics will generate.
Cambridge Parkrun is a perfect example of the sorts of project that Sportmakers will hope to create. Started by Heidi and still largely run by her and a team of volunteers, it involves something like 250 runners each week running a 5km circuit around Milton Country Park. As ever with any running event, at least one of the active volunteers is also a member of
Fetcheveryone, which is a phenomenal online running community. My parting comment to Heidi today was that she should be immensely proud of what she has achieved (in fact I think I actually said I would come back and run one day!!).
This morning I went to the launch of Living Sport's Sportmakers initiative in Cambridgeshire. It was held at Milton Country Park, coinciding with the Cambridge Parkrun.
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