Race Progress

Race update on Sunday 28 March:  After four weeks of running, walking and cycling, the St Michael's Community has completed a distance of 12527 miles!  That's all the way to Kenya, and back, plus an additional 500 miles!

Mileage update from Sunday 21 March: At the end of week three, the school community has not only made it to the Maasai Academy, but have nearly completed the distance ALL THE WAY BACK to Granville Road, with just 603 miles until we reach the school gates!  We've just crossed the border between Spain and France.

Thank you everyone who has continued with the enthusiasm and racked up the miles this week!

Last week all the children performed a 10 minute running challenge and the scores are through as the following;

Here are the results of each house:

Granville – 16.9 miles

Melrose – 17.6 miles

Seymour – 16 miles

Viewfield – 15.2 miles

The running teams

A HUGE congrats our placed winners from each house.. And especially to Kate Winter at the top of the leaderboard who ran a whopping 70.1 miles..!!  In total Strava runners have travelled a whopping 1,115. Miles in week 3.

And a extra big shout out to Claire Burnell who actually completed the most mileage this week on Google Docs AND Strava - a whopping 87.5 miles for Viewfield!

The cycling teams

An incredible week from Strava cyclists totalling an incredible 1,571.1 miles.  HUGE kudos to Paul Crosbie, Simon Dunlop and Julian Ortner who all cycled well over 100 miles each.. See below for the top scores by team;

We are totally overwhelmed by the miles the children are putting in on Google Docs… and the full month’s results will be added to the site soon..

Well done everyone for being AMAZING!

We will be in touch soon with more results :)

Monday 15 March:  After counting up all the mileage on Strava and Google Docs, we are pretty surprised and delighted to announce that after just two weeks, we have not only completed the distance between St Michael's and the Maasai Academy, but have overshot the distance by over 1700 miles.  So - there's only one thing for it.  We'll have to turn round and make our way back home to St Michael's again!  Well done everyone for such a superb effort!  Let's see if we can make it home by 31 March... 

Some very impressive mileage on Strava this week... here's how the leaderboards are looking: 

Thursday 11 March:  WOW.  The distance covered this week so far is incredible - 1914 miles and we've still got the weekend to get active.  In our first week we managed 2098 miles so we are clearly set to beat that in week 2.  Thank you to everyone who has signed up this week and helped us get this far!  We're currently in Chad, a landlocked country in Africa.  We're likely to reach our goal very soon - so we may need to up the challenge somewhat - watch this space!

Sunday 7 March: The St Michael's Community has travelled all the way through France and Spain and is currently crossing the Mediterranean Sea.  We've got about 50 miles to go until we reach the coast of Algeria - an entirely new continent!

Well done to those of you who have taken the time to sign up to the Race across the world.. Pushing your fitness levels and raising money for an incredible charity as you go.

This week we will name 'the warm up week'... as I know we ALL have so much more in our locker to give over the next week :)

Some kudos to be given to the following winners of the Strava leaderboard at the end of week one:

The gauntlet has now been laid.  The challenge is real.  Who has got it in them to double their efforts and top the leaderboard for week two??

Good luck and enjoy the journey!

Naomi and the PTA Committee xx