People of Glasgow prepare for the Great Scottish Run 2024 this weekend
We catch up with Glaswegians set to participate in the Great Scottish Run and find out more about why they’re running and the charities they’re running for.
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00:00Hi I'm Danielle Quinn and I am from Hood Magazine and for the Great Scottish Run
00:05I'm going to run 10k for the Beetson Cancer Charity.
00:08I'm Cameron McAllister and I'm from Glasgow Warriors.
00:11I'm Katie Miller and I'm from the Glasgow Warriors.
00:13So I am actually a member of the Beetson Cancer Charity. I myself last year was diagnosed with
00:19stage 3 ovarian cancer. I did become really unwell but the team at the Beetson had spotted
00:24this quite early and I actually had 10 organs removed. So that was just last December.
00:30So in able to get me better and do my recovery I have been doing some running and I thought
00:36what better way to raise funds for the amazing team that looked after me at the Beetson than
00:40to run a 10k and raise some funds for the amazing charity and the work that they do there.
00:44So Glasgow Warriors are one of Scotland's two professional rugby teams and for the last two
00:48years we've been running a campaign for the Glasgow Children's Hospital charity called
00:51Fighting For Our Families and this year we're targeting £85,000 to raise
00:56for the charity as part of our partnership with the hospital.
00:59The Great Scottish Run it's why would you want to run anywhere else? Glasgow's an amazing city
01:03it's so great to run around the city. I've done the half marathon a couple of times but due to
01:08being in recovery 10k I think is going to be enough for this occasion and you get to take
01:13in the sights of Glasgow. Hopefully I'll still get to see quite a few sites with just running the 10k.
01:19I think it was 15 years probably since the last time I did the Great Scottish Run but
01:23always like to challenge myself love running so just thought why not.
01:28So everyone's been training sort of individually but everyone and then fundraising's been a bit
01:33of competition so there's a prize been given out to the biggest fundraiser so that's added a bit
01:37of jeopardy for people. We've targeted £5,000 from the staff to raise for this one and people
01:43are going out to their friends, families, gyms that they maybe train at that sort of thing.
01:47The players are involved so we've got two players pulling the starting gun for the half marathon as
01:51well so we've got the backing of our players as well. Normally it's us backing them and supporting
01:55them but the tables turn for this one and we've got them behind us which is really encouraging as
02:01well. There's also a bit of buzz in the office when everyone's going out running people want
02:06to know what the pace is, what time did you get, did you get better than last time. I think most
02:10people have each other on Strava. Keeps you fit and it's good for the mind as well, good for the
02:16body. Yeah I do it for the physical and mental well-being and the good community spirit.
02:25I mean I've met friends through running I would never have met before and I've had friends
02:31for years now because of running. It's the good community spirit and it keeps you fit as well.
02:37So for us at Glasgow Warriors the hospital's less than a mile away from us so we've got a real
02:41drive to support our community. So the vicinity to our stadium is one part of it but the other
02:47part is the number of people either players or staff or even people in rugby clubs in our
02:52community that have had the support of the Children's Hospital. There's so many of us
02:57that have had that. My daughter's been involved, has been through the hospital for a few things so
03:02I think everyone's got a personal story connected to it as well.