Chance to win Olympian goodies!
28 Mar 2017
Retweet the Purple Wave’s message and win T-shirt and water bottle signed by Greg Rutherford
The University’s Purple Wave in the Great Manchester Run is growing by the day – it’s now 1,900 runners long!
To celebrate and remind you that you too can ride the Purple Wave to glory, SPORT is running a competition to win a T-shirt and water bottle signed by Greg Rutherford and a free eight-week Be Active class of the your choice.
Track and field athlete, specialising in the long jump Greg has represented Great Britain at the Olympics, World and European Championships, and England at the Commonwealth Games.
All you have to do is retweet a tweet from @OfficialUoM on Thursday, 30 March.
More information
You can join the Purple Wave for the discounted price of £25 for staff, £20 for students, for the first 3,000 to sign up. You will get a FREE purple technical running T-shirt too! The standard entry fee is £38 so this is a significant discount.
A discounted price of £30 is also available to the first 200 alumni to sign up to run and raise money for scholarships, student support or research at the University.
There's lots of training support for everyone taking part, including running plans for you to follow and a number of running groups across campus for all levels of fitness.
For further information, visit:
or email the UoM 10k team: