Comments on: This Girl Can: Volunteer

By: Rants and raves 3 | The PhD Runner

Rants and raves 3 | The PhD Runner — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 12:29:56 +0000

[…] in February I blogged about the awesome #ThisGirlCan campaign. Since its launch, the award winning #ThisGirlCan campaign […]

By: Me

Me — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:59:45 +0000

It’s great to read about someone volunteering their time for free rather than the usual it’s all about me, me, me blog posts. Keep on blogging and keep on organising events and volunteering.

By: phdrunner

phdrunner — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:05:52 +0000

In reply to runninggirlslim.

Thanks for the comment. I think most of us have been guilty of taking volunteers for granted.

I know that I never appreciated how much work volunteers put into events until I started to organise the tennis tournament. I imagine that organising races involves even more pre-event work and stress.

I’m aiming to volunteer at a minimum of 5 events this year, it’s a great way to remain involved while my foot is preventing me from running. As an added incentive a lot of events provide free entry into a later event in return for volunteering.

By: runninggirlslim

runninggirlslim — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 20:06:58 +0000

Great post, I write a blog a few weeks ago about how I’d planned to volunteer at races after the London Marathon but after suffering an injury and being helped by the very kind volunteers at the London North Run, it’s hit home even more how important volunteering is and I’ve applied to be a volunteer at 2 local Half Marathons

It’s definitely something we should all consider more