Mangaluru: In order to eradicate the myths related to fitness from the minds of women and spread awareness on the concept of fitness, Mangaluru Women’s Run in association with Medimade Solutions, Lions Club, Mangaluru, Inner Wheel Club and several other women clubs, will be organizing the second edition of “The Saree Walk and Run” on Sunday, September 29 at Mahatma Gandhi Park, Mannagudda.
The event is expected to witness over a 1000 participants.
Member of the Medimade Solutions, Rajesh said, “The main motto behind organizing this event is that several women have a common mentality that fitness means jogging with fitness wear and shoes, which usually creates disinterestedness in them. On the other hand, some women do have interest indulging themselves into fitness regime, but orthodox family nature which insists not to come out of traditional outfits, hinders. Hence we have come up with “The Saree Walk and Run” event.”
“To create an awareness among women on fitness, the Mangaluru Women Run team, from the past one year has been organizing this event. The reason why we have kept a walk and run event stretching to 2 kms has an agenda – it is not very tedious”, he added.
Explaining further about the event he said, “Our team has over 900 members, in which 500 are women. The women participating in the event wear outfits that they are comfortable with. Once the event is over, they once go back to whatever outfits they want to wear. Hence the main motto of the event is to create awareness that the outfits that they wear should not be a cause of hindrance to their participation in fitness regime.”
Rajesh also said that their team consists of girl students, women entrepreneurs and homemakers who join their team during the event at 5.30 AM.
He has said that the event will not be open for men.
Attractive prizes will also be given away. The prizes will be distributed based on several criteria’s – Individual and team with best outfit, best thematic representation of walk and run, best slogans and team with maximum numbers.
The event is divided into categories. Girls and women aging from 15 to 80 can participate. Every participant will be felicitated with a medal and a certificate.
Upcoming actress in Tulu and Sandalwood industry and anchor Sukanya will be a part of the event.
The event will also be having medical and drinking water facilities along the 2 km stretch.
Participants can register their named by calling at mobile number 9972237055.
The entry fee for the event is Rs 100.
The participants are requested to wear saree mandatorily.
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