Virtual events

Choose your own challenge to #FundTheAnswers

Virtual events

Planning a virtual event is a great way to raise funds for TYAC in your own time while setting yourself a fitness goal you want to complete!

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Walk, run, cycle or swim your own distance in your own time, or set yourself another fitness challenge. Taking part is simple.

  1. Decide on your challenge. We've got some great ideas below, or choose your own.
  2. Open your JustGiving page or Facebook fundraiser to collect sponsorship and donations for your challenge. You can share your progress using Strava on both JustGiving and Facebook to show your supporters how your challenge is going.
  3. Let us know you're fundraising for us so we can support you and send you your free fundraising pack.
  4. Complete your challenge!

 

Our favourite virtual challenge ideas

Run Your Way

Set yourself a distance goal you want to complete, and a timeframe to finish it in. Why not try:

  • A mile a day: run one mile every day for a month in your local area, or on a treadmill
  • 5k or 10k: run the distance in your own time and space
  • Half marathon: that's 31.1 miles either in one go or spread out over a week
  • Marathon: a full 26.2 miles, spread out over two weeks or a month

Cycle your way

Set yourself a distance goal which you want to complete, and a timeframe to finish it in. You could try:

  • 100 miles: cycle 100 miles in a weekend, week, or month
  • Virtual London to Paris: your own take on this popular capital to capital cycle, clocking in at 310 miles
  • Virtual Land's End to John O'Groats: another popular challenge, take yourself the (virtual) distance from one end of the country to another - 874 miles in total!

Walk your way

Set yourself a distance goal which you want to complete, and a timeframe to finish it in. You could set a distance or a number of steps you want to achieve. Why not try:

  • A mile a day: Walk one mile every day for one month - around your garden or in your local area
  • 10,000 step challenge: Walk 10,000 steps every day for a month
  • Hadrian's Wall: Walk the distance of this popular challenge in a week or over a month. In total it's 145km or 90 miles.

Active your way

Set yourself a fitness goal which you want to complete, and a timeframe to finish it in. Why not try:

  • Burpees challenge: Complete 30 burpees a day for 30 days
  • 100 a day: complete 100 reps of your chosen exercise (such as sit-ups or star jumps) every day for a month