Team Cheese Monkeying Around!
We’d been looking for a charity event to take part in for a long time and when we saw a post for The Great Gorilla Run on Facebook, we knew it was the one for us. Kelly & Paul sigend up and Team Cheese were in!
www.greatgorillarun.org/london
Since the first Great Gorilla Run in 2003, thousands of people have donned their gorilla suits and run, jogged or walked the 7km City and Bankside fun run route that takes in sights such as Tower Bridge and The Tate Modern.
By taking part in the Great Gorilla Run, we have played a crucial role in helping save the remaining 720 mountain gorillas left in the wild.
Not being the best of runners, we both set out a training plan to follow, building up to running around 3.5miles twice a week. I say we but I think Paul might have struggled with this slightly!
Well, on the day of the run only one of Team Cheese actually made it to the race, sadly (or not so for him) Paul was struck down with a sickness bug the night before! Thankfully his amazing sister Nicole @nicolewfitness was able to step in at the last minute and make Team Cheese whole again! We also met up with Graham Carter @GrahamCarterGC who we’d met via Twitter a while back and the three of us ran round in the heat together.
We also met the legend that is Bill Oddie - photo's a bit blurry but here's the proof!
I was a really hot day and I’m not sure any of us had thought about how heavy and sweaty the costumes were! At 3 miles I’ll be honest and admit that I was ready to jump into the Thames to cool down! But we pushed on round the course which took in the beautiful sights of London, and finally completed the 5 1/2 mile route in 1hr 10 minutes. Not record breaking I know but you try lugging 9 pounds of sweaty fur around and see how you get on!
We are absolutely blown away with the generosity of our friends, family and clients and raised well over our £800 team target. At the last count we’d raised £1140!!!
There’s still time to sponsor us if you’ve not been able to yet, it’s open till November 24th. Just follow the link below...
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The big question is, will we be doing it again next year? - I might make Paul run it on his own!
Kelly has over 13 years design experience focusing on the retail and corporate sectors. Kelly has supported a number of fantastic clients including Hamleys Toy Store, Click Dental, Jo Jingles, House of Fraser, BHS and Paperchase. With a passion for Brand Creation, Packaging, POS and Visual Merchandising, Kelly delivers a seamless integrated brand experience across all channels, be that on-line, on-shelf or in-store.
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