Wayne Pollock and Peter Ferris MBE are two ordinary people running extraordinary death defying marathons on two of the most inhospitable places on earth, the North and South Poles. Their mission is to raise £100k for The Ulster Cancer Foundation.
They are also organising with the help of Ulster Cancer Foundation a Summer Santa Run or Walk consisiting of 1 mile, 2 miles or 3 miles at Cutters Wharf Belfast on 21st June 2009.
Please visit www.worldsbiggestsantarun.com where download registration and sponsor forms are available.
Runners/ walkers can dress up as Santa or just wear something RED. Ask friends, family and work colleagues to join you in this challenge.
Entry fees are ar £10, £5 for student / OAP and £25 for family of 4.
Here are a list of some of the prizes for the top fund raisers. Other brilliant prizes will go to the Best Dressed Male and Female Santas and fastest Santas etc.
Just some of the PRIZES up for Grabs
1. 2 Return air tickets with FlyBe (Europe’s largest independent regional airline carrier, named Regional Airline of the Year 2009) from Belfast City Airport to any of their UK destinations, ie Newcastle, Gatwick, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, Southampton.
2. Luxury Hotel Break at Malmaison Belfast. Two people can stay 2 nights on a bed & breakfast basis in a superior room along with dinner on one evening. This intimate boutique hotel with 62 luxury rooms is built on a converted old seed warehouse and combines history with the best of contemporary style.
3. 2 Night stay on a bed & breakfast basis (valid Sun-Thur) at The Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh. With its majestic clock tower, the hotel is a unique and contemporary luxury five-star property in the very heart of Edinburgh. Amongst The Balmoral’s many awards and accolades they’ve recently won a place on Condé Nast Traveler’s Gold List (US edition) within “The best hotels in the world for location”, also voted Luxury Hotel of The Year at The Scottish Hotel Awards and voted one of the top five urban spas in the world by The Sunday Times Travel Magazine.
4. The Ultimate Golf Experience, or for non-golfers The Ultimate Spa Experience at the world renowned K Club, Co Kildare. Set amid 550 acres of rolling parkland on the banks of the River Liffey, the former Straffan House – modelled in 1832 on the chateau at Louveciennes, west of Paris, by Hugh Barton, grandson of legendary winemaker Thomas Barton – was converted into a sumptuous hotel and country club in 1991.
Golf in Ireland is not complete without a K Club visit, where else can you play The Ryder Cup and European Open Golf Courses at one venue? Designed by Arnold Palmer, The Palmer Course and The Smurfit Course are considered two of Europe’s finest Championship Courses.
5. Two return tickets on a Jet2.com route from Belfast
6. Two return business class seats with BMI from Belfast to London (taxes not included)