The residents of Saddlewood Avenue realise, in these testing times, some may be struggling financially more than others and they'd like to help.
London may not be having a marathon this year, but Didsbury will! Not only that but, collectively, the residents plan on beating the current "official" world record of just over 2 hours while also adhering to strict social distancing measures!
We'd love your support. Please sponsor/donate what ever you can, all monies raised will go directly to Burnage Foodbank.
Here's how we will ensure Social Distancing:
This event is for residents only. Unfortunately non residents will not be able to spectate as there is no where to put them while ensuring social distancing.
Key points - Warm up (outside YOUR OWN) house from 9:45am
1st leg starts 10am – Participants will be notified of their group and approx. start time by Whats app!
The race will follow VERY STRICT SOCIAL DISTANCING MEASURES, to do this we really need all cars etc to be off the road by 9am on Sunday 26th so the road can be used as the course. We appreciate this can be tricky especially where homes have more than one car. To help, we have contacted The Parrswood Pub to see if we could perhaps park in their car park. If this is something that may be of interest/use to you, please let me know so I can confirm details.
Participants be they, Walking/Jogging or Running will start outside their own house (level with their left fence post) they will step onto the road/the course and will then will travel in an anti-clockwise direction, going down one side then up the other. Their lap (s) will finish when they return to their house. This will mean people are kept safe and social distancing will be adhered to at all times! Partipants will use the outside of the road allowing a 2m gap between them and runners running on the other side of the road.
Participants, participate at their own risk.
The footpath will act as a barrier between runners and those spectating/supporting from their drive. Supporters, please ensure you are a minimum of 2meters away from where participants will be passing ie. A minimum of 2 meters from the curb.
3 or 4 people (or in some cases 3 couples or 3 families will participate at the same time) participants will be in groups (allowing for social distancing) and will be given a start time. 1 lap is 451 meters so this will more than allow for social distancing between each participant/houshold. Those running with children under 10, should hold their hand when participating to prevent trips/falls and ensure they don’t jeopardise social distancing measures.
Participants will be categorised (by themselves) into Walkers/Potterers ie. Joggers with kids under 10years, Joggers and Runners and will participate (at their allocated slot) with others in the same category. Overtaking shouldn’t be an issue anyway but to be clear, participants will NOT be allowed to overtake!
Any questions please ask.
London may not be having a marathon this year, but Didsbury will! Not only that but, collectively, the residents plan on beating the current "official" world record of just over 2 hours while also adhering to strict social distancing measures!
We'd love your support. Please sponsor/donate what ever you can, all monies raised will go directly to Burnage Foodbank.
Here's how we will ensure Social Distancing:
This event is for residents only. Unfortunately non residents will not be able to spectate as there is no where to put them while ensuring social distancing.
Key points - Warm up (outside YOUR OWN) house from 9:45am
1st leg starts 10am – Participants will be notified of their group and approx. start time by Whats app!
The race will follow VERY STRICT SOCIAL DISTANCING MEASURES, to do this we really need all cars etc to be off the road by 9am on Sunday 26th so the road can be used as the course. We appreciate this can be tricky especially where homes have more than one car. To help, we have contacted The Parrswood Pub to see if we could perhaps park in their car park. If this is something that may be of interest/use to you, please let me know so I can confirm details.
Participants be they, Walking/Jogging or Running will start outside their own house (level with their left fence post) they will step onto the road/the course and will then will travel in an anti-clockwise direction, going down one side then up the other. Their lap (s) will finish when they return to their house. This will mean people are kept safe and social distancing will be adhered to at all times! Partipants will use the outside of the road allowing a 2m gap between them and runners running on the other side of the road.
Participants, participate at their own risk.
The footpath will act as a barrier between runners and those spectating/supporting from their drive. Supporters, please ensure you are a minimum of 2meters away from where participants will be passing ie. A minimum of 2 meters from the curb.
3 or 4 people (or in some cases 3 couples or 3 families will participate at the same time) participants will be in groups (allowing for social distancing) and will be given a start time. 1 lap is 451 meters so this will more than allow for social distancing between each participant/houshold. Those running with children under 10, should hold their hand when participating to prevent trips/falls and ensure they don’t jeopardise social distancing measures.
Participants will be categorised (by themselves) into Walkers/Potterers ie. Joggers with kids under 10years, Joggers and Runners and will participate (at their allocated slot) with others in the same category. Overtaking shouldn’t be an issue anyway but to be clear, participants will NOT be allowed to overtake!
Any questions please ask.
Organizer
BURNAGE FOODBANK
Beneficiary