City vs Wharf 5K Run 2018

On Thursday, we switched our city garments for bright orange Dynamo t-shirts to take on the challenge of running the City vs Wharf 5k.  This was a challenge which could not be done alone, so we gathered our clients to take it on with us.  United by the orange t-shirt, we met at our office for some pre run fun!

Some may say we had all the gear but no idea and they were probably right… but at least we looked great!

We headed over to Victoria Park, where the run was taking place, and started our warm ups. For Cameron and Sophie that consisted of a quick wheel barrow race across the grass. Others were more focused and did their calf and hamstring stretches. A few team photos later, we were ready to go!

6pm came around and so the race began! Shil, Marc and Matt hurried off to the pub to get the post run drinks in whilst I stayed behind to be the Dynamo cheerleader! I had the role of making sure everyone was still in high spirits. Thankfully, I couldn’t miss the orange running towards the half way mark so it was the easiest role that evening.

Everyone was still grinning by 3K, despite some not training for the run. 18 minutes and 55 seconds in, Neil sprinted across the finish line. He was 20th across the finish out of 583 runners! Next were Greg and Cameron just 22 seconds apart from each other. Lori was the first female Dynamo to cross the line at 24 minutes 55 seconds and Paula was the first female client to finish at 26 minutes 10 seconds. Everyone in the Dynamo team did a brilliant job running or walking!

Medals gleaming, we headed to the pub for a well-deserved drink. We had an incredible evening and want to thank our clients for joining us. We can’t wait until next year to do it all over again! This time with a few extra prizes to be won and even more orange t-shirts to be worn. A big thanks to Darren, our graphic designer who designed the t-shirts for us! We really were a vision in orange.