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Happy Monday everyone!

Here’s your update for week 2 of the strava challenge

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Congratulations again to everyone who took part this week! I believe that we manage to go to a university in one of the flattest areas of the UK and so any elevation is reaching new heights!

In total, we managed to climb 1405m which is 5X the height of the 7th tallest waterfall in the world (Cascade de Gavarnie in France for any waterfall enthusiasts).

For week 3 it's all about strava art so get creative and post screenshots of your magnificent adventures below.

The levels for this week will work slightly differently as everyone will get three votes in deciding the best strava art. You will be allowed three reacts for voting as follows: 

A HEART react to a photo = 3 points

A WOW react to a photo = 2 points

A LIKE react to a photo = 1 point

🧡Usk: 6 points

🧡Leven: 10 points

🧡Etive: 15 points

Feel free to share any other photos of your adventures in the comments below too!!📸

As always, the goals will be reset on Sunday at midnight, and if you are yet to join, then the link to the strava group is here. 

Strava love,

Adi

• Nearest pub
• Nearest River
• Nearest play area/climbing frame
• Anything else interesting you can find

• Nearest pub
• Nearest River
• Nearest play area/climbing frame
• Anything else interesting you can find

Tidy Desk, Tidy Mind, right?

Sometimes it’s the little things we don’t even notice that can cause us stress. For some people, having a cluttered space where you work and/or relax can be one of them. 

Join me this evening where I attempt to organise the Lesser Coventry Garbage Patch aka my room. Have a chat, have a go, or just watch me attempt to be productive, everyone’s welcome. Just take some time for yourself today. 

Catch you later! Click here to join

Paddling Love,

Lara

Happy February one and all!💜

Here’s your update for week 1 of the strava challenge, and the new challenges for week 2:

A massive well done to everyone who’s taken part this week - the kudos has been flowing!!🌊 And a special shout out to James, reaching the Etive level🤩🤩 - providing us all with some motivation💪.

For week 2, in the words of Miley Cyrus, it’s all about The Climb🎶 -  the challenge focus will be elevation🏔⛰.

🧡Usk: 100m

🧡Leven: 200m

🧡Etive: 300m

Strava automatically tracks elevation, so just remember to start tracking all your runs/walks as runs and get climbing some mountains🧗‍♀️🧗‍♂️!

As always, the goals will be reset on Sunday at midnight, and if you’re yet to join us, then the link to the strava group is here.

Feel free to share any snaps of your adventures in the comments below!!📸

Strava love, have a great week,

Claudia💛

New year, new lockdown, and now a new club strava challenge!🥳

It was great to see so many of our members get involved in the strava challenge last term - so I hope you’re all ready and raring to go for round two - wherever you are!!🏃‍♂️🏃🏃‍♀️

Over the next several weeks, the club will launch new weekly challenges on Mondays, and you can pick which river level to aim for each week:

💧Usk: everyone needs a gentle paddle every once in a while🛀

💦Leven: for something a little choppier🗡

🌊Etive: aim high and push the boat out🛶

The goals will reset every Sunday at midnight, and walking and running activities only will be counted.

For week 1, we’re keeping it simple, kicking off with the following distance-based challenges:

💙Usk: 10km

💙Leven: 20km

💙Etive: 30km

Week 1 starts NOW (so it’s a slightly shorter week this week!!) - get out in the fresh air and enjoy the last of the ❄️snow❄️ while you can.

As before, activities will be tracked via our club 🧡strava group🧡, so if you haven’t already, join us at the link here. To allow your activities to be tracked to the club group, both runs and walks need to be tracked as ‘runs’.

On another note, I don’t think I’m alone in still being in the “trying to wrap my head around it” phase of the times we’re living through. Take this as a friendly reminder that me and the rest of both execs are here if you need us.

Be kind to yourself, you’re doing amazing💜

Sending ‘kudos’ and socially-distanced hugs,

Claudia and both execs xxxxx

😌😌dinnertime destress😌😌

tommorow's destress will be Japanese themed 🇯🇵⛩️🗾🍵

so get yourself under a warm kotatsu🔥, brew yourself a green tea ☕(or a hot drink of your choice), and we'll do some origami 📜

in the meantime I hope everyone is taking some time outside to enjoy the snow! ❄️☃️🥶

join the call at 7pm for all the fun and good vibes

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Good afternoon all,

For the social this week we are hosting a quiz night, which has been created by Macmillan Cancer Support. As a way to support Macmillan we are asking everyone who wishes to attend the evening to donate a minimum of £1.50 using the link below:

https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/DanCollier2 

Macmillan Cancer Support is a great charity that supports people living with cancer and like many charities has been hit hard by the pandemic with fundraising events being cancelled and charity shops having to close during lockdowns. For more information about the charity visit the link below:

https://www.macmillan.org.uk/ 

The quiz will be on Thursday at 7 pm on discord and there will be 2 quizzes, an original Quiz night quiz and a 2020 quiz, so turn up to test your knowledge, have some fun and support a great charity.

Social love,

Dan, James and all the exec