Jammy Challenges 2010

NO, this has nothing to do with glass jars and fruit preserves. It is all about a group of people who are part of an award winning jogscotland team who have been running and raising awareness of SSCB for a few years now, and raising lots of money in the process ! One of our own committee is also on the team, our Secretary Gill Mitchell MBE.

They set themselves several challenges over the year with different team members doing different challenges. These include the Carnethy 5 back in February (that's a 6 mile hill race in the Pentland Hills), a race from Edinburgh to North Berwick (20 miles), the Edinburgh marathon, half marathon and the Jogscotland Challenges - 8 x 5km races around Scotland.

The latest challenge the team have been given is the Jogscotland Marathon ! If, sorry - that should be when, the team members complete all 8 challenges simple arithmetic tells us they will have complete 40km. The distance of a marathon is 42.2km, so Jogscotland are setting up an additional 2.2km course so that all who can complete it will have run the equivalent of a marathon! OK, so it is over 8 races, but is still a fantastic achievement (and one I (webmaster) could not do !).

The Jammys have a page on our workwithus portal which they update regularly, and of course this is where donations are made. You will also find links to photos of their events as well. https://sscb.workwithus.org/Fundraising/Donate.aspx?page=5392

They are also on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jammys/106857702694100, so feel free to "like" them and spread the word.

I will get some photos of them on this page in the near future.