8,000 runners, including international elite group, to join Subic Marathon
8,000 runners, including international elite group, to join Subic Marathon
SUBIC BAY Free port: Some 8,000 participants, including 50 international elite runners, will be joining the first Subic Marathon to be held on the second week of January 2008.
Assistant race director Ponce Piñones said that the 42-kilometer marathon on the streets of the Subic Bay Free Port would be the biggest in the country today.
He added the winner would take home some $5,000, the biggest in the history of the country’s marathons.
Top runners from Kenya, Singapore, Australia, Great Britain, Malaysia, Ethiopia, Morocco and Malaysia will be coming to Subic to join the race.
He also confirmed that 28-year-old running sensation Cresciano Sabal would lead the country’s elite runners in the 42-km event.
Some 350 policemen will secure the race course together with some 500 volunteers from the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA), civic groups and other local government units in the area.
Piñones explained that besides the grueling 42-km run, participants can also join the 3-, 5-, 10-, and 21-kilometer races, all of them inside the picturesque roadways of Subic Bay.
“Subic is a world-class tourist destination. With Subic Marathon 2008, local and international runners get to savor the hospitality and scenery of Subic, its people and environs in particular, and the entire Philippines in general,” he added.
“We expect spectators to come in droves to the free port, cheering the runners along the course. Hence, first-rate accommodations, tight security and other support services are assured. Furthermore, local watchers can tune in to the nationwide media coverage, and overseas sports fans can catch the marathon proceedings over the international media and via podcasts over the Internet,” Piñones noted.
“It is time the Philippines have its own Boston marathon or New York marathon and this is it,” Jay Adlao-Block, president of Outbound Asia, and a member of the organizing committee said.
She added that the Subic Marathon is one of only two races in the country that was accredited by the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS).
Five of the largest and most prestigious races in the world such as the “Boston Marathon” Boston, New York City, “Chicago Marathon” Chicago, “London Marathon” London, and “Berlin Marathon” Berlin are also accredited by AIMS.
Adlao-Block said that many of the runners competing are in the thick of their preparations with some clocking as fast as 2 hours and 14 minutes.
“With 29 days to go, their times could come down further,” she said.
-- Anthony Bayarong - Manila Times
SUBIC BAY Free port: Some 8,000 participants, including 50 international elite runners, will be joining the first Subic Marathon to be held on the second week of January 2008.
Assistant race director Ponce Piñones said that the 42-kilometer marathon on the streets of the Subic Bay Free Port would be the biggest in the country today.
He added the winner would take home some $5,000, the biggest in the history of the country’s marathons.
Top runners from Kenya, Singapore, Australia, Great Britain, Malaysia, Ethiopia, Morocco and Malaysia will be coming to Subic to join the race.
He also confirmed that 28-year-old running sensation Cresciano Sabal would lead the country’s elite runners in the 42-km event.
Some 350 policemen will secure the race course together with some 500 volunteers from the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA), civic groups and other local government units in the area.
Piñones explained that besides the grueling 42-km run, participants can also join the 3-, 5-, 10-, and 21-kilometer races, all of them inside the picturesque roadways of Subic Bay.
“Subic is a world-class tourist destination. With Subic Marathon 2008, local and international runners get to savor the hospitality and scenery of Subic, its people and environs in particular, and the entire Philippines in general,” he added.
“We expect spectators to come in droves to the free port, cheering the runners along the course. Hence, first-rate accommodations, tight security and other support services are assured. Furthermore, local watchers can tune in to the nationwide media coverage, and overseas sports fans can catch the marathon proceedings over the international media and via podcasts over the Internet,” Piñones noted.
“It is time the Philippines have its own Boston marathon or New York marathon and this is it,” Jay Adlao-Block, president of Outbound Asia, and a member of the organizing committee said.
She added that the Subic Marathon is one of only two races in the country that was accredited by the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS).
Five of the largest and most prestigious races in the world such as the “Boston Marathon” Boston, New York City, “Chicago Marathon” Chicago, “London Marathon” London, and “Berlin Marathon” Berlin are also accredited by AIMS.
Adlao-Block said that many of the runners competing are in the thick of their preparations with some clocking as fast as 2 hours and 14 minutes.
“With 29 days to go, their times could come down further,” she said.
-- Anthony Bayarong - Manila Times
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