{"id":8753,"date":"2020-12-15T14:49:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T14:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irun.wales\/?p=8753"},"modified":"2020-12-15T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T15:58:59","slug":"3-miles-a-day-for-a-year-gareths-great-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irun.wales\/cy\/news\/3-miles-a-day-for-a-year-gareths-great-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Miles a Day for a Year &#8211; Gareth&#8217;s Great Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We thought we were all in need of a feel good inspirational news story and the challenge Gareth from Conwy Hardys social running club has been undertaking has smashed them all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gareth has run every day for 367 days!! And raised \u00a32405! his motivation is both heartbreak and inspiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gareth is a founding member of the Conwy Hardys Staff Social Running Group (which is open to all staff in Conwy County Borough Council and in normal times meets after work on a Thursday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gareth set himself the enormous challenge of running 3 miles every day for a year back in December 2019. He is running in memory of his mum and dad, family friend Geoff &amp; colleague Jan \u2013 all of whom sadly died of cancer.&nbsp; Gareth started his challenge on what would have been his mum\u2019s 80th birthday.&nbsp; During the year he had key targets such as hitting 1,024 miles on what would have been his Dad\u2019s 80<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;birthday. 1024 was his Dad\u2019s North Wales Police Number.&nbsp; He\u2019s celebrated key milestones by dressing up the halfway point ( day 183) as a honey monster and running day 300 as a Centurion! As well as marking other targets with football shirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/irun.wales\/app\/uploads\/image0-2-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/irun.wales\/app\/uploads\/image0-2-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/irun.wales\/app\/uploads\/image0-2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/irun.wales\/app\/uploads\/image0-2-300x400.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/irun.wales\/app\/uploads\/image0-2.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fran Lewis from Conwy Hardys told us \u2018Gareth is a really supportive member of our little running group. Pre covid he was always the one running as the back marker helping new people on their first run and he circulated motivational quotes after every run. During lockdown he\u2019s been great setting running challenges on Facebook and sending out messages to keep everyone going. We have loved following his daily runs on Instagram &#8211; it\u2019s been such a shame that we haven\u2019t been able to run with him to support him in the way we had planned, but we\u2019re so proud of this huge achievement \u2013 he\u2019s been out every day come rain or shine \u2013 even battling the storms when we suggested a treadmill day maybe safer! He\u2019s our very own Conwy Hardy Forest!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone at Run Wales to like to pass on a huge&nbsp;congratulations&nbsp;to Gareth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have good news or a challenge to share please email irun@runwales.org.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We thought we were all in need of a feel good inspirational news story and the challenge Gareth from Conwy Hardys social running club has been undertaking has smashed them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":8754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>3 Miles a Day for a Year - 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