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Marathon runner appeals for support with GPS image

Howard Lake | 14 January 2009 | Blogs

How do you make your sponsored marathon run stand out from the thousands of other people’s efforts?

Jenny Rice, a student at Kingston University, has managed to do just that by “writing” her appeal for support into the landscape using a GPS wristwatch.

The effect is “skywriting in reverse” according to Runner’s World.

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It took her 70 minutes to record her route as she ran with a GPS watch, a Garmin Forerunner 205. She then used gpsvisulalizer.com to create the map.

Even better, she has demonstrated all this via YouTube.

You can make out her appeal:

“Hello I am running in the 2009 Flora London Marathon for ICYE [Inter-Cultural Youth Exchange]

Please sponsor me…

www.justgiving.com/jennys_run “

A remarkable mashup of GPS, fundraising and digital media.

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