Our very own 2.6 challenge

Earlier this week members of our team at Sports Tours International, Club La Santa UK & Ireland, Sports Travel International and The Running Bee Foundation participated in the 2.6 challenge to help raise money for charities close to their hearts.

So what is the 2.6 Challenge?

With the Virgin Money London Marathon being postponed from April 26th to October 4th due to the COVID-19 pandemic, charities have missed out on millions of pounds of fundraising money as the marathon is the biggest one day fund raiser in the world. The 2019 edition raised over £66million for charity and the idea of the 2.6 challenge is to get as many people as possible doing exercise with 2.6 in. So, this could be something like 2.6 minutes of exercise or 2.6 miles (indoor our outdoor) or even 2.6 times around your garden. The initiative aims to encourage people to do their exercise on April 26th (which would be the original marathon day) and get sponsored or donate money to a charity of their choice to help try raise £67million. More information can be found here

What we did

As we wanted to inspire others to take part we decided to take the challenge a few days early, so we got our 2.6 in this week. It seems we’re all getting used to exercising at home now and with more and more people relying on different ways to communicate, we thought we’d combine the two, and do 2.6 minutes of different exercises on a zoom call, which can be seen below.


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Some examples of our team’s exercise and their chosen charities

  • Lewis – I am doing 2.6 minutes of squats with my one year old son – donating to The Samaritans because in uncertain times like these people may have more stress and feel the need to talk about their mental health.
  • Rebecca – I am doing 2.6 minutes of sit ups for Derian House. Derian House Children’s Hospice provides specialist care and respite to children and young people with life-limiting or life-shortening conditions.
  • Abby I’m donating to The Running Bee Foundation as it encourages having an active lifestyle, which aids wellbeing. Having suffered from poor mental health & wellbeing, it’s great to support a charity which works to improve this.
  • Hayley I am donating to stroke association, we lost my auntie Majorie last week who had suffered a stroke so as I won’t be able to go to the funeral I have donated to them in her memory
  • Julie – I am doing weighted squats in the garden and I will donate to the Macmillan Cancer Support Charity.  As my Dad is one of the volunteers.
  • Claire I have donated to Captain Tom for the NHS, as I think he is a true gentleman and an inspiration.
  • Kathryn – I am donating to Captain Tom for the NHS charities as we think he’s amazing.

So if you want to get involved or if you’re struggling for inspiration as to what exercise to do you can head to https://www.twopointsixchallenge.co.uk/ where there’s some great ideas to help you.

If you want to donate you can do so via https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/giving/events/twopointsix/donate-now/ 

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