science

Go Dad Run

Go Dad Run is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Go Dad Run rather than just read about it. In short: Go Dad Run is a charitable project that was created in 2013 by former world champion athlete Colin Jackson in order to raise awareness about men's health issues, especially prostate cancer and funds for male health charities including Prostate Cancer UK. It is a series of runs for men and boys that take place around the UK in June.

Key takeaways

Go Dad Run belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Go Dad Run to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Go Dad Run from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Go Dad Run is a charitable project that was created in 2013 by former world champion athlete Colin Jackson in order to raise awareness about men's health issues, especially prostate cancer and funds for male health charities including Prostate Cancer UK. It is a series of runs for men and boys that take place around the UK in June. They can run, walk, wheel or jog around the courses and raise money for the charity via sponsorship. Jackson founded it after two of his uncles developed prostate cancer and although one responded to treatment the other was less fortunate and died. That prompted him to find out more information about the illness and he was shocked to discover that whilst 1 in 8 men in the UK will develop prostate cancer, that rises to 1 in 4 men from an African Caribbean background.

History

2013 The first ever Go Dad Run 5K for men and boys aged 16+ took place in Llangefni, Anglesey on Father’s Day, 16 June 2013. The event started and finished at the Ysgol Gyfun school in the town and was organised by Menter Môn, the local enterprise agency. Colin Jackson, Mark Foster, Jamie Baulch and Siân Lloyd were all there to lend support as more than 150 men and boys pulled on their yellow Y fronts and took part in the run around the town.

2014 In 2014 Go Dad Run welcomed a new headline sponsor as the Sanlam Go Dad Run expanded and staged three small events on Father’s Day weekend (14-15 June) in Crystal Palace Park in London, Bute Park in Cardiff and Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham. Boys aged 14+ joined their dads and the men on the courses. Mark Foster and Siân Lloyd handed out the medals to the runners as they crossed the finish line in London. Colin Jackson, Jamie Baulch, Christian Malcolm and Suzanne Packer were their ambassadors in Cardiff and Colin also attended the Birmingham event where Derek Redmond joined him to fire the starting gun.

2015 In 2015 Go Dad Run expanded to six events, changed the runner Y fronts from yellow to blue and reduced the age limit to 11+. Their main launch event was attended by Elizabeth Emanuel, Fernando Montano, and David Seaman alongside their ambassadors. Mark Foster set the runners on their way in Southwark Park, London and Greville Smyth Park, Bristol and Colin Jackson went to Llangefni to greet the men and boys before they ran around the town. At Worcester Racecourse he was joined by two other world champions, Derek Redmond and Donovan Bailey, and Colin's actress sister Suzanne Packer was on hand in Victoria Park Warrington to start the event and present the medals. Their biggest run took place in Bute Park Cardiff where ambassadors Siân Lloyd and Jamie Baulch were joined by Welsh rugby legends Martyn Williams and Tom Shanklin.

2016 Six events were staged in June 2016 in London, Cardiff, Bristol, Sunderland, Worcester and the Isle of Man. A number of rule changes were introduced and there were 10K events at all locations, the 5K runs were opened to men and boys of any age and all aged 10+ were to be chip timed. The 2016 events were launched at the Grange, St Paul's Hotel in London when a number of prostate cancer survivors spoke, including Errol McKellar and Alfred Samuels, Sian Lloyd introduced the special Olympic Q&A with Colin Jackson, Daley Thompson, Leon Taylor and Jamie Baulch.

2017 In 2017 Go Dad Run changed its format and the runs will be staged in a different cities each month between April and October. The series will begin in Sunderland on 2 April and then move to London, Brighton & Hove, Worcester, Cardiff, Norwich and Bristol. The Lead Charity is Prostate Cancer UK and the three new National Charity Partners are Bowel Cancer UK, Orchid and Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM). Each run also has a local care based or hospice charity partner.

References

Colin Jackson returns to Anglesey for Go Dad Run [1] [2] Archived 2016-02-02 at the Wayback Machine [3] Archived 2016-01-31 at the Wayback Machine

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Go Dad Run

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Go Dad Run claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Go Dad Run before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Go Dad Run ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Go Dad Run

In research: Go Dad Run appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Go Dad Run in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Go Dad Run is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2013 establishments in the United Kingdom, Cancer awareness, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Go Dad Run outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Go Dad Run in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Go Dad Run means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Go Dad Run out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Go Dad Run in simple terms?

Why does Go Dad Run matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Go Dad Run?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Go Dad Run.