15th January 2020

The Homerun is one of my services biggest events to rais money and fund for our equipment (eg. Hammers, saws), it’s a 5km run that our OSC community participates in. The is called home “run” but it can either be biked or walk with your friends. The event is also a good opportunity for the SAISA athletes to squeeze in some more fitness and much to their dismay its a requirement. This year we collaborated with care for paws so that people could also bring their dogs on a walk.

Andrew running towards school and finishing 3km of the run. Photo: GeckoNet

A lot of preparation went into planning the run because we had to organize the rout and get the posters ready. We originally had the run set for November 14th but due to the problems with the government, we had to change our date. We had already created the posters and made the video so it was just a matter of creating the dates. Since I was gone for my science project a large portion of the planning was left to my other 2 leaders. We had one lunch session the day before the event to plan who had to work with who at the water stalls as well as where they would be.

The morning of the run we had to all be at school at 5:00am so that we had enough time to put out all of the arrows and set up all of our water stalls. We decided to make it a lot earlier because every year we were always rushing to try and finish putting up all of the stalls. The morning began with high stress of attempting to read maps and figure out which way the route was. We also had to be very organized as we had to put up arrows in the right places so that the runners wouldn’t get lost on the track. The maintenance was a very large help when it came to setting up the tables and mapping out all of the routes.

One of the parents participating in the run. Photo: GeckoNet

We managed to do 2 rounds on the truck before we had to get ready for the first runner. Rizqi and Liam were on bikes so the runners didn’t get lost and we had a truck follow the end of the pack so that they could assist any problems. Nehe, who was on the truck, had to call each of the stalls and tell us when the first runner would come around. This is a good example of collaboration because we each had to communicate with each other when the first and last runners would pass each of our stalls.

Rizqi and Liam on their bikes. Photo: GeckoNet

The event was a success and we had a very positive turnout. A large number of people came to support our service and there were a lot of track athletes that got a good workout.

Everyone that went to our event. Photo: GeckoNet