9:30am Friday 19th March 2010
By Richard Vernalls
SUPER-FIT county residents are pulling up their red socks for Sport Relief.
Thousands will be completing at least one mile – skipping, hopping, jogging or walking – for the charity event, which is bidding to raise millions of pounds for good causes nationwide.
Events have been taking place in the run-up to the big Sports Relief finale on Sunday, when all the miles will take place.
The chief executive of Sainsbury’s Justin King ran a mile at Regency High School in Worcester on Thursday. The supermarket chain is sponsoring the one-mile challenge this year.
Mr King was supporting staff at the company’s nearby store in Blackpole after setting himself the challenge of running 32 single miles in four days at stores around the UK, finishing in London on Sunday.
The Norton Pre-School group in Wadborough Road are mixing sport relief with their Lazy Town fun day, named after the popular children’s television programme.
Some of the tots will be in fancy dress, while others will be wearing red before racing off around the playing field.
Pre-school manager Helen Hope said: “They’re only three and four so they’re not going to be doing the mile, but they will be racing around the field though.
“But one of our four-year-old pupils William Marshall will be running at Perdiswell Leisure Centre on Sunday.”
Students at Bishop Perowne CE College in Merriman’s Hill Road and Fort Royal Community Primary School in Wyld’s Lane, Worcester, are also joining in the fund-raising.
On Sunday, the single-mile challenge goes out with a final effort with events at Cripplegate Park in Worcester between 1pm and 3pm.
There will also be hula hoop time trials, sow a sunflower seed for spring to take home, home-made cakes and refreshments.
Droitwich Rugby Club has signed up 236 entrants to complete the mile, three-mile and six-mile courses from 1.30pm.
People can still sign up at sportrelief.com/themile/droitwich-rugby-mile or call the club the Hanbury Road club on 01905 771919.
Alternatively, people can turn up and register on the day, with the single mile challenge starting at 2.30pm.
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