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.
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