People of Glasgow prepare for the Great Scottish Run 2024 this weekend

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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.

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