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Team in Sport Relief Gym Challenge - Mar 10

LIVING SPORT to take part in Gym Challenge for Sport Relief

The team at LIVING SPORT will be raising money for Sport Relief by walking, running, cycling and rowing 62.4 miles in just one day on Tuesday 23rd March 2010.

The challenge will be for the 13-strong team to complete the distance calculated from the most northern village in Cambridgeshire, Tydd St Giles, to Little Chishill, the county’s most southern village, at the Lakeside Lodge Health Club in Pidley.

Participants will have a one hour slot to complete their 4.8 miles. The team includes local badminton, dance, hockey, netball, table tennis coaches and players, and England Premier League Hockey player Ross Hayward.

Ryan Cullum, LIVING SPORT’s Sports Projects Officer and Challenge Organiser, commented, “this is an exciting and different challenge for the team to show their support for Sport Relief. I proposed a gym challenge to fit around the working day, while relating to the county and ensuring everyone can get involved by walking, running, cycling or rowing.

The money raised by the team will be helping to improve the lives of those across the country and encourage more people to get involved in sport and physical activity.”

Cambridgeshire is the host of six Sport Relief Mile events in Cambridge, Ely, Great Chishill, Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon and Peterborough on Sunday 21st March. Each event is offering one, three or six mile runs, with entry fees at £5 for Adults (16+), £2 for Children and £12 for Families to cover the cost of staging the race.

For more information about the challenge or to sponsor LIVING SPORT, contact Ryan Cullum 01487 849921 or Ryan.Cullum@livingsport.co.uk, or visit the Sport Relief website at www.sportrelief.com to get involved.

Notes to Editors:

For more information, images and interviews please contact Ryan Cullum, Sports Projects Officer and Sport Relief Challenge Organiser, on 01487 849921 and Ryan.Cullum@livingsport.co.uk or Amanda Callard, Development Manager, on 01487 849925 or amanda.callard@livingsport.co.uk.

LIVING SPORT is the County Sports Partnership for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. It is one of 49 in the country, promoting and encouraging sports and physical activity at all levels across all age groups. We want more people to take part in sport and physical activity and LIVING SPORT’s vision is “active, healthy, successful communities where everyone can play, achieve and enjoy”. Our aim is to work with a wide range of individuals and organisations involved in sport, bringing them together to form one powerful single voice for sport in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

As one of the UK’s biggest fundraising events, Sport Relief brings the entire nation together to get active, raise cash and change lives. The Sport Relief Weekend takes place from Friday 19th March to Sunday 21st March 2010 including a night of Sport Relief telly on BBC One and the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile events across the UK on Sunday 21st March. All the cash raised by the public will help transform the lives of those living tough lives across the UK and the world’s poorest countries.

Since its launch in 2002, millions of people have taken part in Sport Relief, helping to raise over £80 million. Sport Relief has a unique history of dedicated people doing extraordinary things to rise to the challenge, from David Walliams’ astonishing swim across the English Channel to Eddie Izzard’s truly amazing marathon a day around the UK. Further information is available on www.sportrelief.com.

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