With about a month and a half to go until the big event, the organization of the International Reyes Marathon continues to work on each and every detail for what will be the great celebration on January 5, 2019. The participation of more than six thousand athletes is expected for the general race and about three thousand for the children's categories, which will be run on Sunday the 6th. Free medical check-ups are already being carried out for the participants of the race.
Marcelo Cresto, Secretary of Sports of the Municipality of Concordia, pointed out that “we have been working with the commission for two months, at a good pace, to be prepared for what will be this great sporting celebration, which has as a novelty in this edition the three-kilometer distance, so we estimate that more than two thousand more athletes will be joining.”
Taking into account the time of year in which it is run and although the schedule has been modified for a couple of editions so that it ends in the early hours of the night, “a large emergency and sanitary operation has been planned in addition to the corresponding hydration stations. Everything the athlete needs for the race to be complete and with all the precautions and care,” remarked Cresto.
MEDICAL CHECK-UPS
“As it has become a social and popular marathon, all residents of Concordia want to run it and sometimes that leads them to sign up without perhaps having any preparation, which is why medical check-ups are important,” which are already being carried out at the Isla Saludable on the Costanera, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and in the afternoon, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., at the Convention Center, indicated Cresto.
The head of the municipal sports department highlighted that the recommendation is that those who have never participated in a race of these characteristics, sign up for the 5 or 3 kilometers “so that they can enjoy it and not suffer through it. To run the 10 km, another amount of training and preparation is needed,” he indicated.
CHILDREN'S CATEGORIES
The other part of the celebration will be provided, as always, by the children. They will run the next day, January 6, at the “Atanasio Bonfiglio” Corsódromo, in the different categories. In that sense, the Secretary of Sports indicated that the participation of about three thousand children is expected.
“Although we cannot say today that that will be the number, we estimate that there will be about three thousand children because that is what the children who have been participating in the different editions of El Barrio Corre as well as the Social Children's League have told us,” he pointed out.
Finally, the official highlighted and thanked “the participation of the community that edition after edition cheers on and accompanies the athletes. The objective that the mayor Enrique Cresto has set for us is that we experience a great marathon because it is nothing more and nothing less than 40 years.”