Guinness Zumba World Record attempt - having to postpone until 2014

Hello everyone

It is with a heavy heart I have to announce the postponement of the Zumba into the spring/summer of 2014. This is extremely disappointing after all the months of work that has gone into the preparation. We had worked so hard and had secured some great sponsorship from some great businesses. We will welcome them back on board next year and hope they will still want to be part of something so great. We even secured a goodie bag for every participant taking part in the actual Zumba!

I want to take this time to thank two really great lasses, two brilliant ambassadors who have worked hard to help bring this major event nearly to fruition. Angela Moore & Katie Stirk - WOC & I are really grateful to have you on board, long may you both stay. You both are fantastic ambassadors - always bringing the charity awareness to others always looking for opportunities to bring others on board and always accepting shared responsibility for all the jobs and tasks we need to complete for any event we are planning to host.Our meetings are always fun filled and very positive, we all come away with a sense of something achieved and a list of new duties as long as our arms!! You are always looking to network on behalf of WOC.....you are indeed what an ambassador is supposed to be. So a very big personal thank you from me.

From our charity point of view it is very upsetting to have lost a year on this event. An event that would have brought a community together, thousands of like minded people giving up their time to stand united in our fight against cancer for men and women suffering with breast cancer. A perfect chance to show our great city in a really positive light, keeping up the brilliant feel good atmosphere that Bradford City got going with their amazing promotion grabbing season which saw them at Wembley twice this year. A real fun event that would have got people out to exercise, do a Zumba class and hopefully get them to carry on with some form of exercise. We all know how important exercise and nutrition is to us here at WOC.

It is sad that all the positive feedback, following and excitement that we had garnered from our advertising, flyers and business cards could now be lost as we have to delay until the weather picks up next year. The information about the Zumba had gone out to in excess of approx  25,000 people. Hopefully those who were interested this year will still be when it takes place next year. I have to inform Guinness and again I hope they will allow the delay on our current application - otherwise I will have to go through the whole process again.

We have agreed a venue in principal and I can happily say the owners are really happy to be able to help us out. The are totally on board and look forward to our amazing Guinness World Record attempt while getting down to the serious business of raising awareness and money for our cancer charity. They have assured us they will do whatever they can to assist us. So thank you very much to them!

We know we wouldn't be able to get all the relevant paperwork completed before the weather became an issue and prevented us successfully hosting the Zumba this year now. To get approval for the paperwork with the council can take on average 3-4 months. When we have an agreement with the council in principal for our chosen new venue - we will then make an announcement. We don't want to announce beforehand in case we run into any red tape issues that cannot be resolved. So be patient with us, we hopefully can announce soon and then finish off the paperwork behind the scenes.

On a personal note I want to thank my friends for trying to pick me up. I have undoubtedly been hit very hard and have been very down about everything that brought us to this exact point of having to announce our postponement into 2014. I think part of me is still in denial and the other part is struggling to grasp what has happened.  I know it will make me even more determined to make this Guinness Zumba World Record attempt spectacular, to help lay the ghosts of our failed 2013 campaign to rest as it were.

This is the second major blow to planned events this year for me, as I have already delayed my sponsored Mount.Kilimanjaro climb until March 2014. The positive in doing this is that  great friends and very loyal WOC "family" members -Angela,Caroline ( coming to support but not climb ) Bec's & Ali will now be able to join this magnificent quest to conquer the Worlds tallest free standing mountain at a whopping 19,340ft -- welcome aboard girls, a pleasure to have you aboard!! The major plus for me in 2013 was conquering Ben Nevis beginning of June just 14 months on from barely being able to get myself out of bed and only being able to dress myself sat down. This is a sponsored event and any sponsorship - corporate, business and personal will be gratefully accepted -- we want to make this Majestic mountain climb a major winner in monies raised.

So finally as we come to terms with postponing our Zumba event - we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down and ease the massive disappointment by getting stuck into finalizing the planning of the other events we have coming up.

I will post a blog in the next couple of days giving an overview of these events. Onwards and upwards as we always say - you can kick us down.....but we'll always get back up and carry on the fight to raise awareness and funds in our War on Cancer .

Until Next time

Tracy