Running challenges are a great way to keep your running routine going if you have taken up running during lockdown or if you are a keen runner and missed your usual races.
- Be a part of an organised event – virtual or live – such as the Edinburgh Marathon Festival Virtual Challenge – there’s a range of distances you can run
We have free places in the running events currently planned to take place later this year:
- Men’s 10K Glasgow – 29 Aug
- Great North Run – 12 Sept – Newcastle upon Tyne
- Scottish Half Marathon & Scottish 10K – 19 Sept – East Lothian
- Great Scottish Run 1oK – 3 Oct – Glasgow
- Women’s 10K Edinburgh & Men’s 10K Edinburgh – 24 Oct
- Supernova Kelpies 5K – 14 Nov – Falkirk
New for this year, the Women’s 10K Edinburgh takes place in October. Some events have been adapted to exciting virtual challenges suitable for all abilities, including the Great Run Solo. The Edinburgh Marathon Festival Virtual Challenge includes several distances, and you may even want to try the relay event with your household!
Virtual Running Challenges
- Bobby Jess is running and walking a virtual route from Land’s End to John O’Groats using the LEJOG fitness challenge app. Bobby is covering the 1084 miles distance on his regular runs around his local area.
- Our supporter Ashleigh set herself the target of running and walking a total of 100 Miles in May last year. By fitting her challenge around her job as a teacher, making local deliveries of work packs to her pupils helped Ashleigh to chalk up the miles, get fitter and fundraise over £1,300.
- Sarah and Gerry completed the Virtual Great North Run in September. The Great North Run is the world’s biggest Half Marathon and in 2020 was replaced with the Virtual Great North Run.
- The Great North Run 2021 is planned as a live event and we have free places for our supporters.
- Sarah and Gerry chose a 13.1 mile coastal route along the Firth of Clyde, and tracked their achievement with a running app. The Great North Run have set a series of virtual running challenges – the Great Run Solo. Head to our events pages for more details!
- The Edinburgh Marathon Festival Virtual Challenge is back for 2021! Join in Scotland’s biggest virtual running festival – and you can book your free place to support Prostate Scotland in any one of the different distances.
- Bill completed the Edinburgh Marathon Festival Virtual Challenge 2020. Bill opted to complete the full marathon distance by undertaking a series of 5K runs over a few weeks and fundraised the superb sum of £740!
Staying Closer to Home? ‘Around Your World in 80’ Challenge
‘Your World’ could be your garden, house or flat – 80 hours – climbing up and down stairs could be the ascent of virtual Munros or Corbetts in your favourite locations. 
Select a Munro, note the altitude and divide by the length of ‘Your World’ (stairs, for example), to discover how many times you need to walk it!
80 minutes of running could take you around a Half Marathon, 80 hours of walking might be a virtual visit to your favourite place in the UK, 80 hours of cycling in your locality or on the home trainer could be your virtual stab at John O’Groats to Lands End.
JustGiving has launched an integration with the free run and ride app Strava, so it’s easy to share your achievements and receive encouragement and donations as you progress.
Sharing your sponsored run online
The safest and easiest way currently to collect donations in through an online fundraising page and you can easily set up your fundraising page and share it with friends and family.
It is straightforward to share a fundraising page in a social media post. You can copy and paste the page link from your browser onto an email, text message or social media post. Or you can follow the links from the social media icons on your fundraising page.
You may want to give your sponsors more information about our work. In your social media and email, you can paste links to our website and tag Prostate Scotland on Facebook with @prostatescotlandfundraisersandsupporters and on Twitter with @prostatescot
JustGiving has launched an integration with the free run and ride app Strava, so it’s easier to keep your family and friends updated and share your achievements – this will help you to receive encouragement and donations as you progress!
Other fundraising ideas
We are here to support you in your fundraising – you can contact our Supporter Care team here, at info@prostatescotland.org.uk or on 0131 603 8664 or 0131 603 8660.