The V Carrera and Paseo Healthy for Diabetes will take place on Sunday, November 19
The Mirobrigense Association of Diabetes presented on Monday afternoon, with the company of the City Council of Ciudad Rodrigo, the V edition of its already traditional career and walking walk through diabetes, which this year will be held on the morning of Sunday, November 19, maintainingthe tour and the structure of the previous two years.
In this way, the event will have as an epicenter Laguna Street, which will host the departure and goal of the different modalities.The first to start, at 10.30, will be the runners of the main race, the 10 kilometers, which will take two laps to the same circuit of 5 kilometers of previous years.
This route will pass along Béjar Avenue, Registration, Madrid Street, Plaza Mayor, Cardinal Pacheco, Plazuela de San Salvador, Calle Campo de San Vicente, Sancti-Spíritus PuertAvenida de la Concha, Iberia Street, Júcar, Vodero, San Cristóbal, Paseo de Carmelitas, Hermanos García Carraffa Street, and Santa Clara Street, to return to Laguna Street.
Just when the first round completes the last of the runners will start the walkers, which will only have to go around the aforementioned route.The control closure of the main race- in which athletes born until 2002- can participate for 11.45 hours.The first three men and the first three women will receive as last year economic awards of 100, 75 and 50 euros respectively.
On the other hand, those born from 2003 onwards, which must dispute the races for lower categories that will take place below with a tour of Peramato, La Parra and Lorenza Iglesias streets.
Last year there were more than a thousand participants
The Councilor for Sports of the City Council, Carlos Fernández Chanca, highlighted in the presentation held on Thursday afternoon that, like the recent Asprodes march, this event “transcends the sports and has a social tone, with a clear support of the City Council”Reaching the 5th edition is synonymous with the "success" of the event, which "has thrown roots and is consolidated," exceeding the thousand participants last year.
This year, the tops initially set are 300 athletes for the 10 -kilometer race;500 people in Walks, and 200 children in children's tests.Registration will close on November 16.
For her part, the president of the Mirobrigense Association of Diabetes, Carolina Paniagua, recalled that 6 years ago they wanted to start an activity related to sports due to the benefits it has for people suffering from diabetes.The first year, they organized a walk to the wall attended by family and friends, while the following year, they took “one more step”, creating the race, whose benefits are going to research on diabetes.
At this point, Carolina Paniagua explained that everything they get throughout the year with the race or with the sale of lottery, deliver it at the end of the year to diabetes 0, the movement born in Andalusia to build a future without diabetes thatThis year he celebrated his first National Congress in Écija, where they delivered 3 scholarships with a total amount of € 75,000 to investigate the disease cure.
Registration
Those interested in taking part in some of the modalities of the November 19 event can register through the Orycronsport.es website, or physically attending the headquarters of the Association, located on the first floor of the oldHealth Center (entering what was the Emergency Department).The headquarters will be open from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.Like last year, theParticipation in the 10 -kilometer race and on the healthy walk has a cost of € 7, while children must pay € 3.
All participants in the event will receive the usual corridor bag.Also, when they are going to collect the number, they will get the commemorative shirt, which this year will be white with the blue sleeves.
In the shirt this year's poster will be printed (prepared by Lourdes Rubio Holgado), in which the image of a woman is seen, since this year the World Diabetes Day, on November 14, she has the woman asprotagonist.The dorsals and t -shirts can be collected at the headquarters of the Association on Friday 17 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Saturday 18 from 11.00 to 13.00 hours;or on Sunday 19 at the Glorieta Park from 9.00 to 10.00.
