“The Jolly Colors 5K organized by RunWalkIndia on June 15th 2008 at the Jayaprakash Narayan Park in Mathikere, Bangalore was a tremendous success!! Amazed at what my RunWalkIndia team members have acheived” – Prakash Murthy, Chairman-Founder RunWalkIndia said in a mail response.
94 people - most of them School kids and first time runners - completed the 5K Race, and 101 people showed off their artistic skills in the painting competition that followed! Check out the Photos of the Event on Flickr.
The Event was a successful on the organisation part too, the efforts to attract and involve the Education institutions in the nearby area was the key to the success. RunWalkIndia successfully initiated the running attitude to bring out the talent in the kids to make better champions of life for the future. It was quite difficult for many of the children to wakeup early on their day off but the joy to share their talents brought them to the Park and enjoy themselves. Each kid seemed to have planned well for the event. Cheers! to them all ! !
As planned we gave away the finishers medallions immediately after their reaching the finish mark which added to their joy of accomplishment. Many thanks to Dr. Ashis Roy who gave us this fantastic way to congratulate each of the finishers and encourage them.
The turnout for the painting event too was good and many of the kids who had run the 5K enthusiastically participated after taking a short break and good that we thought of arranging the Painting event to start at 8.30am many of them complained of the late start but thanks to some patience it was rewarded with lots more smiles.
The Painting event participants were given themes “Health is Wealth” or “Save Earth” to choose from to express themselves. The children who spilled out their feelings in colourful pictures showed us the bunch of the next generation who can take over from us and spread the Jolly Colors joy to the world and make a better place to live in.
I happened to meet a artist whom we had seen doing some paint work, sketchings, Number plates, Signboards etc., at a nearby place on our way to school, when we were into our preparations for the event and I had taken that special effort to explain him about the event in sign language and write and show him that he was invited to join the event. He was more than happy to come for the event and sketched out a beautiful picture of a woman which showed signs that he might have had intuition about our next event. He also came to the same place where we had met on that day after the event and asked the Shopkeeper to call me and enquire about the results and other programmes. I missed the joy on his face when the shop keeper infomed him “A special prize awaits for you” , surely waiting to capture that joy once we give the special prize to this special person.
The after event reponse has been great encouraging our Team to do much better.
June - the month of monsoons arrival in this part of India missed the rains from skies but sure it has started puring in runners for events not only at our event it seems the running high is catching up throughout India. There have been lots of events happening like the regular RFL runs and coming as a surprise was the one orgainsed from Deccan Athletic Club at Mandya which was on 15th June and one coming up by the same organisers at Chikmaglur on June 29th. So happy days are ahead for Indian runners to add s-miles.
Coming up RunWalkIndia event is dedicated to the Women in our lives which can be celebrated with Women Power 5K Run on June 29th.
