Runners show speed and stamina at LowMed/Shell Race
LowMed Running Club and Shell Gateway Motors joined together to host the former's first official race of 2022. The LowMed/Shell Race offered 10- and 21.1-kilometre distances to entrants.
This year organisers decided to have a charity beneficiary for the race in order to ensure that the local community also benefited from the event.
The selected beneficiary was the Mataffin Men’s Forum. It was selected for the ongoing work that it performs in the community with monthly assistance in food parcels that it provides to vulnerable families, as well as its ongoing work in the education of the community and mentoring of youth regarding gender-based violence issues. The forum has recently launched a suicide awareness campaign.
The route was brand-new to runners and involved a single lap for the 10 kilometres and a double lap for the 21.1-kilometre race. This was the first “post”-Covid-19 event in which people were allowed to attend prize-giving and could gather after the event.
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“It was a joy to be able to bring our running community out again and to see all the familiar faces and clubs back together again. In additional to our local runners, we had entrants from Ermelo, Middelburg, Phalaborwa and Gauteng. We thank our sponsors, without whom we would have been unable to be the only race in Mbombela to award free T-shirts and medals (Pronto IT Solutions), gifts (Shell), after-race refreshments (Coca-Cola and Red Bull) and awesome prize money at our in-person awards (SPAR Lowveld). It truly felt like the ‘good old days’ of running. We look forward to welcoming everyone next year again for a bigger and better event,” said LowMed’s Gilda Mavromatis.
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