They’re back – the 0-5k ten-week running programmes!

The I Will If You Will series of 10-week running programmes is returning next month to help get more people more active.

These are led by trained volunteers who will take participants through a walk/run programme aimed at beginners, finishing in Week 10 with a 5K run at the Great Run Local weekly event in Burrs Country Park.

The Sport England funded I Will if You Will initiative last year funded LiRF (Leadership in Running Fitness) training for 16 Bury volunteers who ran the 0-5K programmes. These were a huge success, with 221 participants and 1,212 attendees recorded over the 10-week period.

Although the external funding has ended, the volunteers have stepped forward again to keep the programmes going, thereby encouraging more people to become active in a fun, social setting and enjoying the outdoors in Bury’s Green Flag parks. Two of this year’s new volunteers took part in last year’s runs.

Timetables for the 10-week programmes are as follows:

• Thursdays, 8 March to 10 May – Nuttall Park (Programme A) – 11.30am to 12.30pm.
• Saturdays, 17 March to 19 May – Burrs Country Park (Programme A) – 3pm to 4pm.
• Thursdays, 29 March to 31 May – Burrs Country Park (Programme B) – 7pm to 8pm.
• Tuesdays, 17 April to 19 June – Close Park – 7pm to 8pm.
• Fridays, 4 May to 6 July – Nuttall Park (Programme B) – 7pm to 8pm.

To book your place, go to http://bit.ly/2GqBou5

For ladies looking for 0-5K programmes in the south of Bury, please visit The Prestwich Plodders on Facebook, whose volunteers have also had LiRF training so that they can lead runs for their 800 members.

ENDS

Press release issued: 21 February 2018.

Picture: The runners in Week 10 of the Close Park 0-5K programme last July.