A relay taking on the Edinburgh Marathon
The EMF Hairy Haggis Relay Team is a brilliant opportunity for a team of 4 runners to take part in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival, splitting the 26.2 miles between 4 legs.
It’s a brilliant event to participate in with your colleagues and you’ll be helping to support a great local mental health charity.
The distances of the legs are:
- Leg 1: The Royal Leg – 8.3 miles: Starting on Holyrood Park Road and finishing at Fisherrow Links, Musselburgh.
- Leg 2: The Prestonpans & Cockenzie Leg – 5.5 miles: finishing at the second relay changeover at Port Seton Links.
- Leg 3: The Gosford Leg – 8 miles: It then races on to picturesque East Lothian, along Scotland’s golf coast. The route loops around and heads back to Port Seton and the final relay changeover.
- Leg 4: The Glory Leg – 4.4 miles: Now in the home straight the route passes through Port Seton, Cockenzie, and Prestonpans back to the finish line at Pinkie Playing Fields.
What you’ll get as a Health in Mind Hero:
- Connect with other Health in Mind runners by joining our Strava club
- Attend regular runner’s meetups where you can engage with our other Health in Mind Heroes and share training tips
- Support from our friendly fundraising team towards raising your minimum fundraising target of £500
- Fundraising pack containing hints and tips, and social media sharers
- Your very own Health in Mind t-shirt or vest to wear on race day
- That warm fuzzy feeling knowing that you are supporting vital mental health and wellbeing services!
Why we need you:
- Raising funds through your run helps us to deliver services that support over 2,000 people directly, and 240,000 people through our resource websites.
- Telling those close to you about this exceptional challenge you are taking on you’ll be telling them what charity you’re running for.
- Wearing the t-shirt or vest to train in, people will see the logo, will see our web address, will remember the name Health in Mind.
- Showing mental health is important to you can help others understand they are important too.
- Coming together with other runners all showing mental health is important to them – that’s a strong message of support when someone is struggling.
You never know who needs to hear that mental health support is available and that their feelings are important. You could be the person in the right place at the right time.
