Olivia Strong is a documentary producer from Edinburgh who started the Run For Heroes campaign, a challenge that has exploded across the country with over 1 million runners participating globally, raising over £5 million for NHS Charities Together to support those fighting the coronavirus.
She’s also just launched her new challenge, the Faster 5K Friday, to support the Care Workers’ Charity. Appearing on video series Up Close And Socially Distant, she chats to host Kate Thornton about how her idea started while on a run through Edinburgh.
Olivia: I had come back to Edinburgh, and actually my work had been cut down to a two-day week, and so I had this extra time suddenly on my hands to be like, ‘Oh, what am I going to do?’ I was out on a run