Flora Womens Mini Marathon
The
Flora Women's Mini Marathon takes place on Bank Holiday Monday, June 4th 2012, and by taking part and fundraising for GOAL, you can help us to
promote mother and child healthcare programmes throughout the Developing
World. These include:
• Providing midwife delivery-care to pregnant women and public training in best hygiene practices
• Tackling infant and child malnutrition more effectively by adopting a community-based approach to promoting good infant feeding practices
Your friends and colleagues can sponsor you online; all you have to do is create a personal fundraising page on www.mycharity.ie/charity/GOAL
For more information contact GOAL on 00 353 (0)1 280 9779 or email fundraising@goal.ie for your sponsorship pack and a tee-shirt.
You must also sign up at www.womensminimarathon.ie. Registration is now open!
Please note that GOAL cannot secure entry to marathons on behalf of any prospective participant.
Marathons
As popular television presenter Rachel Wise, on the right, can attest, taking part in a marathon can be a great way of keeping fit and raising money for GOAL at the same time.
Whether you intend to run a mini-marathon, a half-marathon or a full marathon, why not ask your friends and family to sponsor you on behalf of GOAL, and help make a real difference to the lives of the poorest of the poor in the developing world?
Richard's world marathon record for GOAL
In
one of the greatest running achievements by an Irishman in recent
times, Galway ultra runner Richard Donovan, left, made history again in
February 2012 when he became the world's first athlete to run seven
consecutive marathons on seven continents in less than five days - and
he did it all for GOAL.Richard's challenge took him to Antarctica, Cape Town, San Paulo, Orlando, London, Hong Kong and Sydney.
He ran more than the traditional marathon distance of 26.2 miles a day and logged up 26,719 air miles by flying around the world in less than a week. He also had to contend with -20C temperatures when he began the event in Antarctica.
Richard is already a world record-breaker in the field of ultra distance running.
He became the first runner in the world to run a marathon at both the North and South Poles in 2002 and has run in some of the most unforgiving climates and challenging locations in the world, including the Sahara Desert, Mount Everest, the Inca Trail and the Amazon jungle.
Richard took on the feat to support GOAL's efforts to alleviate the suffering of people who continue to be affected by famine and drought in the Horn of Africa.
To read more about Richard's amazing challenge click here.
For more information on GOAL's activities in the Horn of Africa click here.