RNLI Porthdinllaen Family 5km Fun Run - £1,800 raised for the Porthdinlllaen Lifeboat

Registration

As with all the best ideas, this too came from a night out in the pub with our good friends Mali and Robat from the Porthdinllaen RNLI lifeboat. Whilst having a lovely dinner we hatched a plan for a Summer Family Fun Run and the rest, as they say, is history!

A small event team of Mali, Owain (the Coxswain), Karen, Ken and myself  organised the event with many of the crew member volunteers and the help of Nefyn Golf Club, the local Coastguard, Stu and the team at the world famous Ty Coch pub and the National Trust who gave us kind permission to hold the run across their land, we plotted a 5km and a 2km cicular loop from Nefyn Golf club, along Morfa

Nefyn beach to the Ty Coch before venturing up over the Golf course for another stunning loop.

In the run up to the event we had just under 100 people registered and in the days before, with strong winds and rain forecast the event was in jeopardy of even being able to safely continue!

But then on the morning of the event, the rain didn't materialise, the sun started to break through and the wind subsided. We suddenly had a huge rush on at the Golf club registration eventually having a
start line of 292 runners, with a very balanced mix of local and holiday making families.

A very competitive front end of the run from both children and adults to a fabulous finish line at the Ty Coch!

We were really taken aback at the support and a whopping £1,800 raised on the day which surpassed all our hopes and expectations!

A full RNLI press release here and hoping this too will become an annual event! :-)

https://rnli.org/news-and-media/2019/august/13/porthdinllaen-rnli-family-fun-run-raises-over-1800?fbclid=IwAR1PC8q3-HQyHHIgg6uz9tfDXkIFDr383N89sdiafPlyOHlhWIGJFvXLm6k