The first event under the RunWalkIndia banner was conducted this Sunday at the JP Park. Being the organizers of a race for the first time, we messed up quite a few things, but more importantly got the important things right!!
Hats off to all the members of the organizing team and the volunteers who made this an incredible experience for everyone!
The numbers at a high level are as follows:
Number of registrants : Around 200
Number of Starters in the 5K race : Around 100
Number of finishers in the 5K race : 76
Number of children in the Kids dash : Around 60
Youngest finisher in the 5K race : 9 years
Can you believe it?!!! Since his name is Prakash it probably is believable 
Oldest finisher in the 5K race : 77 years
While there were so many memorable and enjoyable moments during yesterday's event, the one which will be with me for a long time is of a 2 year old kid giving me a million dollar smile when I congratulated her and gave her the medal which her brother had got. Thanks to a bit of organizational bungling, this girl had not got the medal we were giving all the participants in the kids dash, and was inconsolable. So her mother had taken the medal from her brother and requested me to felicitate her. On putting the medal around her neck, and congratulating her, she gave me a huge smile. That made all the troubles worth it for me!
Awesome start!! We got 100 people to run yesterday. Only around 1.3 billion more to go. May the Fair winds blow our way all along the road!
More information, photos, newspaper clips, etc. to come......
4 comments:
You are an amazing leader. Congrats on a successful event.
Wow Nam.. Congrats for the grant success ...
Thanks David "Unda Kova Brotha" Williams and Vinesh for the compliments. Keep it coming :-)
My pleasure Sir..
BTW i saw the photos on flikr...
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