New The Peachy Mapped Poppy Run

Ben McBean was a Royal Marine who lost a leg in addition to an arm when he stepped on a landmine patch serving inwards Afghanistan. To assistance enhance coin for the Royal British Legion in addition to to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the start of The First World War Ben of late completed a sponsored piece of job roughly London.

Ben's 31 mile London piece of job was designed to depict the outline of a poppy on the map of London. By completing the piece of job patch wearing a GPS connected smartphone Ben was able to consummate the geoglyph of a huge poppy on Google Maps.

Now Ben needs other runners to color the poppy inwards patch raising coin for the British Legion. To induce got purpose inwards the Big Poppy Run you lot simply involve to download Strava, RunKeeper or MapMyRun to your hollo in addition to and then piece of job whatever of the streets within Ben's poppy outline.

The Big Poppy Run is continuing until the ninth November, thence you lot nevertheless induce got fourth dimension to assistance consummate the big Google Maps poppy or to donate to the Royal British Legion (the UK's leading Armed Forces charity).