Much like the Blackmores Sydney Running Festival, another major Australian fun run, the Melbourne Marathon Festival also went virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Melbourne Marathon Festival is annual walking/running and marathon festival, which has grown since its inaugural event in 1978 to become Australia’s biggest marathon. It offers a variety of distances for participants to complete, with all
Read moreDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, many major fun runs have gone virtual (if they didn’t postpone or cancel altogether); one of those was the Blackmores Sydney Running Festival. The Blackmores Sydney Running Festival is an annual running and walking event with a range of distances to suit everyone – all of them run over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The range
Read moreIn August, I set myself the challenge of completing a virtual marathon, specifically the Angel Kisses Virtual Run. Australian virtual fun running site, Heart & Soles Running, hosted the event. The difference between this virtual marathon and previous virtual marathons I have completed is that the goal was to complete a specific weekly distance: 10km per week, 20km per week
Read moreAnother virtual run I completed this year was Virtual Run Event’s World Chocolate Day Run 2020. The World Chocolate Day Run 2020 was established obviously to celebrate World Chocolate Day. It was Virtual Run Event’s third annual World Chocolate Day run. There was the option of five distances to complete: 1 mile, 5km, 10km, 13.1 miles and 26.2 miles, I
Read moreMy first virtual run of the year was the Pi Day virtual run. The run was to celebrate Pi Day, which is 14 March. I actually didn’t get around to completing the run on Pi Day as I was busy with work and study, and Coronavirus cases were also being reported all over the world at a rapid pace. It
Read moreI’ve talked in my previous blog posts about completing virtual runs, so I thought I’d publish a blog post listing the virtual run sites I’ve used to complete them and other sites that I plan on using at some point in the future: http://www.virtualrunner.com.au—Is an Australian-based virtual run site. Their site states that their aim is to “make a difference
Read moreLast month I completed my second virtual run with Virtual Runs Australia. This virtual run, ‘We Run the World’, was to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8 and to raise funds for Share the Dignity, a charity that distributes sanitary items to homeless and disadvantaged women. I completed this virtual run as a 10 km triathlon (8km stationary bike
Read moreLast month I came across Virtual Runs Australia as I was looking for different ‘sports’ to compete in on top my fun walking. I love fun walking and training for fun runs, however I do worry about the injuries I’ve inflicted on myself in the process–a fractured shin, a sprained foot and now a medial ligament sprain. The medial ligament
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