Sport, Fitness and Leisure News & Updates
- 16th December 2013
Since its launch in September 2012, the free community 5k running event has clocked up a collective 40,075km. Just under 1,600 individuals of all ages and abilities have achieved the equivalent of running round the Equator in 8,000 runs.
- 11th July 2013
A new elite cycling road race will be coming to Ipswich and Suffolk this summer, British Cycling has announced. The University Campus Suffolk Ipswich & Coastal Grand Prix has been added to the elite road race calendar on Sunday 8th September.
While Mo Farah is breaking records elsewhere, the free community event runners have broken the long distance tape in just 22 runs in Chantry Park.
Now, organisers of the 5k runs are sending participants on tour … to Christchurch Park, where, from Saturday 2nd March, runners, joggers, buggy pushers, dog owners and walkers can take part each Saturday starting at 9am. This “tour” will last for a couple of months and all the runs are free.
The number of small businesses joining the Fresh Ways to Work project is growing and we have recently received a number of match-funded grant applications for company pool bikes, showers and other facilities.
Fresh Ways to Work has access to a match-funded grant to help support greener travel for 80 Suffolk based businesses. The grants may be used for shower installation for those walking, running or cycling to working, cycle racks, pool bikes.....No reasonable idea refused!
- 10th September 2012
It wasn't all about cycling in Suffolk this weekend – more than 100 runners took part in Ipswich's first Park Run.