Independence Day 2009- 5K Run

Sankranti Fun

The Fun at Sankranti 5K was ultimate, people inspite of complaining the winter cold took the opportunity to enjoy the festive run which showed their enthusiasm to run and participate. The cold winter weather made people complain and there were some odd requests to have a late run. RunWalkIndia organizers saw the slowest registration pace for this event initially and when the organizers stuck to their schedule, people never wanting to miss the fun joined in to register themselves by the last hour and caused to a late start of the event by about 30 min.

RunWalkIndia inspired and witnessed about 130 runners participate in the Sankranti 5K. There were more than 60% first time runners who enjoyed the run forgetting the chill weather. The Start point was more than warm as the rushing runners aged from about 4 to 75 years waited for their run start and went on to finish their 5K comfortably. Only a few anxious moments were seen when the little kids rushed off their start more in a dash as if they were doing their 100m dash run and few kids tumbled down the start path, they were brave enough to get on their feet soon and get into the run.

By the time the experienced runners started their run by about 7.40am the sun too willing to join the fun cleared the fog shining bright to give the runners a challenge.

All were happy and smiling, even after the running feet gave those moments of pain in their legs. People were keen to share about their run and make suggestive comments. Also many were to volunteer to give their contacts to help us for the next events.

Painting Event - About 65 children aged from 4 to 19 shared their colorful creativity to express the “Sankranti Fun” and create meaningful and proud art pieces to boast about their joy in sharing the Sankranti fun. The Judges had a tough time to decide the prized contribution. Most of them were put on display in the evening at the JP Park Main Gate for the public to see what they missed to contribute and enjoy and for the participants to make them proud of themselves.

People from different parts of Bangalore came enjoyed this event and it was a wonderful Sunday for us to share the fun. Thanks to local news papers Deccan Chronicle, Bengaluru and Bangalore Mirror who contributed in the publicity of the event.

The digital witness is available to all to savor memorable moments.

Sankranti 5K - 18th Jan 2009

Enjoy the festive season with RunWalkIndia Event "Sankranti 5K " a Running & Painting Event on 18th Jan 2009 @ 7 am at JP Park, Bangalore - 560 054. Event is Open to all.

To Register for the "Sankranti 5K" please call upon us on the contact nos. 9740928725 /9972094553 or send in your name, age and contact details to info@runwalkindia.com. For more details visit www.runwalkindia.com.

The running bibs can be collected at the registration points at the main gate of JP Park, Mathikere on 16th / 17th evening from 5pm to 7.30pm.

DASARA-DIWALI 5K Report

RunWalkIndia took the oppurtunity to share the joy of festive season with several runners from various parts of Bangalore by sharing the joy of 5K run.

The Event PHOTOS are witness to the celebrations of the joy of accomplishment.

The event was reported on the news dailies such as Deccan Herald and Deccan Chronicle hearing our calls to support RunWalkIndia in our cause towards a making running a habit. Many thanks to these esteem news dailies.

Excerpt of the Articles in the News Papers:
DECCAN CHRONICLE, Bengaluru, dt.27 Oct 2008, Pg. 4 --
DECCAN HERALD, Dt. 27 Oct 2008, Pg. 2 --

The Festive RUN - "Dasara-Diwali 5K" 26th Oct '08

Celebrate Dasara & Diwali by running 5K Run, RunWalkIndia is organising “Dasara-Diwali 5K” Run Event at JP Park, Mathikere, Bangalore on 26th Oct '08.

The event is open for all. Come and enjoy the run with your family & friends and enjoy the festive run.

MAP to reach the venue : http://www.run.com/showroute.asp?map=810345

RunWalkIndia gets the oppurtunity to help organisers of the “Rajotsava Ota” on 1^st Nov. Registrations will be arranged to be done during the event.

“Om Ganesh 5K Run” Sep 21st 2008

“Om Ganesh 5K Run” scheduled on Sep 21st 2008 at the Jayaprakash Narayan Park in Mathikere, Bangalore saw people from various parts of Bangalore. The call for the run participation in news papers Deccan Chronicle-Bengaluru, Bangalore Mirror, Deccan Herald and for the first time in a prestigious kannada newspaper Prajavani brought in enthusiast runners from various parts of Bangalore to the event. RunWalkIndia acknowledges and thanks all for their support. Special thanks to Bangalore Beats.com and Runnersforlife. And many thanks to all the volunteers who are constantly supporting RunWalkIndia all along the path to successful events.

About 75 Runners participated and 60 crossed the finish line comfortably. The youngest participant being 3 years and oldest being 63 years. There were these two special couple one pair who are enjoying their retired life and another pair who wanted to run for inspiring their children. Special congrats to both these couple.

There was also healthy competition between the runners and it saw the best timings of all our 8 events. A student ran to complete the race in 14.1 minutes topped and the runner-up in tail to him completed in about 40 sec late. How I wished we had the RFID system to register all the timings and give them all a comparision of each lap timings.

Runners shared their views, many collected the couch to 5K and gave in their opinions about the event. Many were happy to meet people an d exchange in between them and were thanking us to provide this platform. The event topper too was overwhelmed at his own performance and was happy that this event happened and it was possible for him to look further.

It is quite satisfactory that we have been able to inspire many people to get into the running activity but still the mass awareness expected is yet to come.

The Memorable event photos are uploaded on the website.

Om Ganesh 5K - 21Sep 2008

The September third Sunday is going to witness the running enthusiasts from all over Bangalore run the 5K at the next RUNWALKINDIA event at JP PARK, Mathikere on 21st Sept 2008.

All are invited to participate and enjoy. All finishers will be awarded and age group winners will be presented with special prizes.

FREEDOM 5K - Sharing the joy of running

Congratulations ! ! ! RunWalkIndia celebrated Indian Independence on 17 Aug 08 by spreading the joy of running in the FREEDOM 5K @ JP Park, Mathikere.

The Freedom 5K which was scheduled on Aug 17th 2008 at the Jayaprakash Narayan Park in Mathikere, Bangalore was a quite a success in bringing people from all parts of Bangalore. The call for the event participation by advertising in Deccan Chronicle, Bengaluru, Bangalore Mirror, Times of India news papers brought in enthusiast runners from various parts of Bangalore to the event. RunWalkIndia acknowledges and thanks all for their support.

The Event was witnessed by about more than 100 people, and saw about 65 runners mix of regular runners, first timers, restarters and all took this opportunity to participate and share the joy of running with the RunWalkIndia team. There were several women runners & children who completed the 5K run comfortably.

People shared their views on the activities of RunWalkIndia which successfully has initiated the running attitude to bring out the talent in the kids to make better champions of life for the future. Several runners who shared their experiences at the event were happy and assured their support for further running events.

Also got the opportunity to share the joy of celebrating one of the runners birthday at the event whom we requested to share his happiness by distributing the finishers medallions to all finishers.

Almost all the participants finished comfortably except for a few. The youngest one to participate was cute Monica, 3+ years old who completed 2K and cheered all runners.

Prizes for each age group was given away to send the winners with a smile.

There was a delay in start of the run due to several last minute entries, but all other schedules of the event were managed well by the multitasking members, coordinators and volunteers. Special thanks to all of them.

A few Photos of the event are available for view , many more of them to follow.

Freedom 5K on 17th Aug @ JP Park, Mathikere

Celebrate the India Independence Day with us by running the FREEDOM 5K in JP Park, Mathikere, Bangalore on Sunday, 17th August @ 7 am.

FREEDOM 5K Run is open to all, All finishers will be awarded prizes.

Come share the Joy of running and enjoy your freedom with one and all.

RunWalkIndia 5K & Running Club

The successful RunWalkIndia 5K Event memorable Event Photos show the Joy of Running. Enjoy them and spread the joy.

The Running Club's first activity is planned to start this weekend with a weekend club run and this sunday 27th July 2008 with a group participating in the Relay Run organized by the Runners for life at the Olde Bangalore resort.

RunWalkIndia 5K & Running Club Announcement

The RunWalkIndia 5K which was scheduled on July 20th 2008 at the Jayaprakash Narayan Park in Mathikere, Bangalore was a quite a success in bringing people from all parts of Bangalore. The advertising in Deccan Chronicle, Bengaluru brought in enthusiast runners from various parts of Bangalore to the event.

About 85 people, a mix of regular runners, first timers, re-starters and all took this opportunity to participate and initiate the group running activity as called upon by the RunWalkIndia team. There were many women runners and competed well with men and completed the 5K run comfortably.

This Event made Team RunWalkIndia organizers proud when people shared their views on the activities of RunWalkIndia which successfully has initiated the running attitude to bring out the talent in the kids to make better champions of life for the future. Several runners who shared their experiences a the event were happy and eager to know if RunWalkIndia can cater to other areas. They also assured their support & help.

Event participants sent in their feedback ;

A happy women participant who re-initiated her running spirit, who came with her family and participated was pleased to share with us as below

Janet Saldanha said…

“ Gr8! event organised by your team y'day. i really enjoyed” in a mail to our team member.

All finishers were given finishers medals to encourage their participation.

Prizes for each age group was given away to send the winners with a broad smile relieving some of the pain in their legs.

The absence of few members due to their various personal reasons did not hamper the schedule of the event and multitasking members managed the event well, Special thanks to them. Even the request by many parents who brought in their tiny kids to have fun run for them was arranged to share their joy.

Many were happy with the announcement of the running club and are looking forward to its first weekend club run. The participants look upon the running club to take running tips and achieving more distances comfortably.

Yet Another Jubiliation !

Yes, we saw the “Women Power” at the Women Power 5K Run Event and RunWalkIndia is proud to have the Event dedicated to the Women in our lives. It was more than a Run Event which gave us immense pleasure to see our near and dear ones to show the world they are competitive and spirited. As the saying goes all good things start at home, it was good to see the women who came and declared to stand for such an event making use of the oppurtunity. RunWalkIndia through this event propagated the idea of running to more than the locality of JP Park and reached out to several other parts of Bangalore. Women runners of different age category came to be part of this event to support and say “I’m Powerful”. There were students, house managers, mothers, youngsters, teenagers, professionals and all present at the event. The event witnessed runners from various localities like JP Nagar, Banashankari, Indiranagar, Jayamahal extension, Ulsoor, RT Nagar, Sanjaynagar, Malleshwaram, Vidyaranyapura and more, which is a success step for RunWalkIndia.

RunWalkIndia was well supported by M/s.Contours International who initiated the running attitude among their club members and came in to participate in the event. Special thanks to their Directors Chandra Gopalan and Stephen Dance. And many thanks to their team who inspired and initiated others to make it to the event.
The Chief Guests Sabine Tietge and Nischal Pai presence at the event made it more inspiring to several girls and women who came for the event. The presence of the leader Sri. Nanjudappa, who is a real support to all our events and has applauded the cause of public health by running, was even more satisfying to many people. They were happy to see and know RunWalkIndia supported by such enthusiastic and wonderful people.

The event saw all category runners such as starters, first timers, regulars and experienced women who supported the event and inspired all others. The Men & Boys came in large numbers too to encourage and show their support to the runners.

Young girls of 5-6 years were many among the runners and the Eldest who inspired and took the accolades was Mrs.Janaki Dorai, 82 years.

Check out all these and much more of the memorable event photos captured by dear Nandish. And few more on the RunnerGirlsIndia.

I conclude this posting with a satisfying smile that RunWalkIndia has grown much better in several aspects and yet the best is still to be delivered which I am sure will happen very soon. Dear Friend Prakash wasn’t that really happy on the count of runners as he had looked forward to 500 Nos. But definitely the joy and inspiration RunWalkIndia has spread in all our events will definitely bring in more participation to our further events.

Women's 5K Run - To Celebrate womens role in life

RunWalkIndia Team will be organizing a women only 5K run event - Women Power 5K - on Sunday June 29th 2008 at Jayaprakash Narayan Park. Cause to a true celebration of women's role in our lives. Lets cause atleast 500 women runners to run in a 5K!!

Invite yourself - if you are a woman ;-) - your mother, your sister, your spouse, your girl friend, your women friends, your aunts, your daughters, your nieces, your grand mothers, your grand daughters, your neighbors, your cleaning lady, .... in fact, every woman in your life!! RunWalkIndia team will ensure that everyone will finish the race [running, or walking, or crawling if need be ;-) ] and that everyone is proud of themselves at the end of the race!

Men Runners : Please be there to support the celebration of the women in our lives!

Cheer on our mothers, sisters, spouses, aunts, grandmothers, daughters, granddaughters, girlfriends, nieces, neighbours, cleaning ladies, washing ladies, and every other women in our lives in this 5K race!

For those of you who have doubts about women being able to run, you should know about (a) one 50+ year old women runner Saraswathi at RunWalkIndia's first event who finished ahead of her young son in late twenties! and (b) about Nischal Pai - who ran 78 Kilometers / 48.5 miles at the Bangalore Ultra Marathon in 2007!!

Congratulations !!! RunWalkIndia spreads the colours of joy

“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 15^th 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.

"Jolly Colors 5K" on Sunday June 15th at JP Park

Jolly Colors 5K - a 5K run followed by a Painting competition will be organized at JP Park on Sunday June 15th.Come and run in a 5K event, and then let your imaginations run wild and express yourself through painting!

Bring your own paint and brush and palette for the painting competition. Or use the painting supplies we provide. Paint from your inner vision on the paper, and dazzle yourself and others!
All finishers in the 5K run event will get a prize. Painting event prizes will be decided by a panel of judges. There will be prizes for all-round good performance in both running & painting events.

Be Fit! Be Self-Expressed!

New experience and Joyous moments to remember at 11th May Event

The 11^th May Event of RUNWALKINDIA “Jaya Hanumantha RUN” gave a new experience to us altogether. It gave us some anxious moments when the expected 70 odd registrants on the previous day pulled our legs leaving us waiting to start the event. Anyway RWI went on with out many of the registrants not turning up , the Event started about 25 min late than schedule time with already warmed up participants as the sun shine at the JP Park was more than the soft rising sun. With about 35 runners running the 5K, the event was more effective in giving more personnel attention as each had queries fo their own sort. 20 runners went on to finish 5K within 25 min which included a sweet girl of 14 years and elderly regular running participant of 50 years.

Not to miss out the Joy shared by a bunch of 4-5 Kids abt 12 to 14 years who approached to participate if given a chance to pay later. They were allowed to run without taking any Fees from them to encourage their running attiitude. The smile on their faces showed their hapiness of accomplishment when they completed the race and gave us the sense of satisfaction in getting an oppurtunity to see the joy.

Few Kids could not complete the 5K but then ran about 2 Km enthusiastically and stopped exhausted. But after a few minutes break when they saw others completing the race they enthused and wanted to run again.

SS Chauhan who has been a wonderful enthusiastic member of Team RunWalkIndia gave the kids his sweet hugs and brought in some lovely moments which are captured on the digital photos which we shall share soon.

Even though we did not have a schedule of Kids Run on date, the demand from the Kids and parents who gathered at the park made us do a quick arrangement for the Kids run for about a 200m dash (who can really ignore those sweet lovely future champs), But then once the kids ran and reached the finish line they turned back to the Prize distribution spot and ran another 200m and completed a 400-450m Dash Run. There can be no words to describe the joy they brought in to the event which started of rather with anxious moments.

We took the oppurtunity at the finish of the event to share with people to tell about RWI team plan in participating at the Sunfeast Majja Run part of the Sunfeast 10K RUN and we saw immediate nods of approval.

"Our Park JP Park" 4th May '08 RUN EVENT - Another Feather in the Cap

The 4^th May Event of RUNWALKINDIA “ Our Park JP Park” towards a Clean Green environment proved how people will to love for a Clean Green environment , Not only the people who are environment conscious but who are running enthusiasts who could not get to run in the event were thrilled to join in the cleaning party, with elections round the corner in Bangalore, Karnataka Party RUNWALKINDIA can give any party a run for its votes which cleaned up election pamphlets strewn in and around the park.

Anyhow yet another feather of achievement, which attracted runners of all ages and 100% race finishers who came in to participate.

The Run Events started pleasantly at almost the scheduled time which had runners taking up their places as per their expected finish timings with a bit of warming up guided from veteran ex- Hockey player SS Chauhan who has been a real enthusiastic member of Team RunWalkIndia.

The Event saw a participation of about 100 people of various age groups.
All participants had a jolly good time in the event as reciprocated by their own comments which adds on to the value of efforts put in by team RWI.

A memorable day for an young girl of 7 years who ran for first time in a run event was overjoyed to complete the RUN.
Senior Citizen Strongest Eldest Runner of 72 years, Mr. Ranganath went on to finish the RUN comfortably and was full of energy left in him to give a inspiring talk to the onlookers on race finish. He called in his fellowmen to join in the future Runs and said “Run to boost up your life value to live as a winner”.

The Clean Green Event participants and Running ethusiasts inspired by Mr. Somashekhar also accepted his Chief Guest speech full of ears and everyone present went on to take an oath to maintain a Clean Green Environment.
It was also a humour tipped talk which everyone enjoyed gracefully.

Congrats to all Runners who stood for this Event to be a success.

DIGITAL PHOTOS of the Event/show/ will give you an overlook of how the event was enjoyed. Don’t miss all this fun at the RUNWALKINDIA’s next event.

Our Park JP Park Run on Sunday May 4th

Run in a clean park! Make a clean park happen!

Cleanliness and Greenery for everyone!

Digital memories of the second event

The all knowing and ubiquitous THEY said that no one in their sane mind in India will pay to run a short distance running event. We ignored THEM and proved THEM wrong by organizing one very successful event - Come Run The 5K event - on 20th April 2008 in JP Park Bangalore.

THEY were chastened and down, but not out. THEY fired back :

OK, you got it right by fluke once. No way it is going to happen again in this park and in this city in the next six months.

We let THEM go about THEIR expert opinions and focused on organizing the second event one week later.

One Week. Not One Year. Not One Quarter. Not One Month. One Week.

I invite everyone including THEM to see for themselves through these digital images how the second event - Prakash Farewell 5K - went. Wonderful job by our official event photographer Nandish Basavaraju to provide exceptional coverage of the event.

Now I am throwing down the gauntlet at THEIR feet by declaring that starting Sunday May 4th, there will be one RunWalkIndia event at JP Park every weekend - come rain or shine. I would suggest that THEY see our team song before THEY talk about the success or failure of our enterprise.

Oh Mitwa.. sun mitwa.. tujkho kya dar hai re... dharthi apni hai.. apna ambar hai rai..

Successful Second Event - Grand Farewell RUN

The Second Event under the Banner of RUNWALKINDIA is yet another achievement, which attracted much more runners and more number of finishers who came in to participate.

The Event started pleasantly at almost the scheduled time which had runners taking up their places as per their expected finish timings in three catergories at about 1-2 metres from each group.

The Event registered about 150 people of various age groups.
About 90 people started at the common start time and the 5K RUN went on to finish in about 90 minutes wherein about 80 people completed the 5K RUN.

It was again the Boy's day where in the future Kid runner of Age 16 timed about 17 min completing first the 5K RUN comfortably.

About 40% Women and Young children went on to finish the RUN very competitively one behind the other.
It was a memorable day for the young girl who is 7 years who ran to complete the 5K RUN along with her other companions.

The Strongest Elder of 70 years went on to finish the RUN comfortably too and thanked the organisation to provide this oppurtunity to show of his strength.

About atleast 10 Senior citizens above 60yrs ran to complete the RUN and in tandem the future kids of the locality ranging from 7 years went on to complete even though the pain showed up on their tender legs.

Memorable moments: A Kid could not run further after the 2K mark who was running with his Dad, The Kid came to me and asked in crying tone whether he will be getting the Prize and I told him you have already won Kid in making up your mind to keep on running. All Runners are Winners wat ya' say guys.

Hope Prakash had a befitting farewell RUN Gala.
And Cheers to Prakash too, he got his name on the Results board as he was the only guy in his age group, Yes it had to be and RUNWALKINDIA was the awaited platform to run his firstever 5K in INDIA.

Many Congrats to all Runners who stood for this Event to be a success.
Soon the digital photo memories shall be posted.