Ben McBean was a Royal Marine who lost a leg in addition to an arm when he stepped on a landmine spell serving inward Afghanistan. To aid heighten 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 operate only about London.
Ben's 31 mile London operate was designed to depict the outline of a poppy on the map of London. By completing the operate spell 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 inward spell raising coin for the British Legion. To stimulate got business office inward the Big Poppy Run yous only ask to download Strava, RunKeeper or MapMyRun to your vociferation upwards in addition to and then operate whatsoever of the streets within Ben's poppy outline.
The Big Poppy Run is continuing until the ninth November, hence yous withal stimulate got fourth dimension to aid consummate the big Google Maps poppy or to donate to the Royal British Legion (the UK's leading Armed Forces charity).
