“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.