Rachel’s Runners Field 2 2014 Fun Run Recap & Thanks

Another fun run down for the year and another huge success!

Registration Desk

Yesterday we had our second Rachel’s Runners Fun Run for 2014 and as always it was a fantastic morning. We had a total of 42 runners register for the run over three different categories – Adult Female, Adult Male and Kids. All of our runners put in a huge effort and pushed themselves to and beyond their own personal limits. PB’s were smashed left, right and centre!

Time for a warm up!

…and they’re off!

The female category was taken out by our previous winner Amy and second and third went to Bronwen and Danielle. The male category had only 2 entrants as a few pulled out at the last minute. This left one of our runners’ husbands to take out the top prize and my lucky hubby came in second. As for the kids, our first 2014 event’s third place getter took home gold. Amy’s daughter came in second and another of our regular Saturday morning runners, Lauren, took out the kids’ bronze medal.

Female winners

Male winners

This time we had a barbeque breakfast afterwards which made for a lovely finish to a great community event. We continued our fundraising for beyondblue and ended up raising over $400 from this event alone! Such a fantastic effort!

An event such as this takes a lot of organisation and I could not do it without the support of all of the volunteers from our running group. For all of the Rachel’s Runners who helped out in some way I am very grateful and want to say a huge thank you! Also to my husband Michael who supports me constantly by running the household and looking after our boys while I am with the running group each weekend day – thank you xx

Runners are winners are grinners

Just some of the fantastic prizes from our sponsors.

We have also had the support of MANY businesses this time round in the form of prizes for our goody bags, winners’ prize packs and raffle prizes. I am continually blown away by the generosity of all of these companies and am sending them out a big vote of thanks too. All of the following businesses have helped us out over the past few months and supported our fun run. Please take the time to follow the links to their pages and check out their fabulous products on offer…

– brasilfit Australia

– o2fit

– Wilfire Sports

– Compressport Australia

– Women’s Running Australia

– Macarthur Holistic Healthcare

– Rocktape Australia

– RunFaster

– Love Movement

– Brooks Running Australia

– Yurbuds Sport Earphones

– Shotz Sports Nutrtion

– Fisiocrem Australia

– The Chia Co.

– Safe Lace

– Nathan Performance Gear Australia

– Fitness Local Padstow

We always love meeting and welcoming new runners to our regular weekend sessions. We cater for all fitness levels and one of our most popular sessions is our ‘Learn to Run’ group. We are a social community running group and hence all sessions are free of charge. We also welcome support from any businesses to help keep our fun runs sustainable. If you would like to run with us or be involved in supporting our fantastic group in some way, please do not hesitate to contact me – rachelsrunners@hotmail.com