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Portsmouth UK to Portsmouth USA

Steve Benson6 May 2020 - 13:00
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We've moved up to third place

The club is taking part in a virtual race against nine other clubs across the south. The race which has been organised by United Services Portsmouth is for charity and we’ll be continuing to raise money for both the Rugby Club and the NHS.

The challenge is to walk, run or ride 3,200 miles from Portsmouth (United Kingdom) to Portsmouth (United States). We have a month to complete the challenge which started on Monday 1st May and will finish on Sunday 31st May!

We have a team of 25 taking on the challenge and logging their distances through our club pages on strava. For every mile accumulated for running or walking, we're credited with a mile towards our total - or for every two miles accumulated by cycling, we're credited with a mile towards our total.

Each person is allowed a maximum of an hours exercise time a day to accumulate as much distance as possible. If exercise lasts longer than an hour, average paces are worked out to decide how much distance would have been covered.

We had a slow start as we got our team together at last minute, but we’re hoping to continue chalking off miles and working our way up the table!

Don’t forget to help us by donating to either (or both) of the links below:

ERRFC:
https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-portal/fundraiserPage?pageId=1157865&newPage=true

US Portsmouth NHS page :
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/usrfc

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