ON Saturday, 12 October, the inner cityscape of Johannesburg will be moved by 10 000 runners who will be challenged to push to new limits in this year’s edition of Nike’s WE RUN JOZI 10km night race.
The night race, being hosted in the heart of Johannesburg’s central business district, offers runners a challenging course, of which a section on route splits, with half of the field running ‘Move Uptown’ and the other half ‘Move Downtown, for the same distance. Merging halfway into the race, the runners unite at the race village just after the finish line at Mary Fitzgerald Square.
During registration, runners must select which part of the split route they will run – ‘Move Uptown’ or ‘Move Downtown’. They will then receive a unique race day tee colour coded to the split section on the route. Every runner who crosses the finish line will receive a medal, gain access to the race village on the Square where they will be able to view the Nike+ leader board as it updates live.
The Nike+ leader board is a digital challenge on www.movejozi.co.za encouraging runners to run more and to collectively reach the South Africa target of 375 000 kilometers by race day. The Nike+ Running app and chat features further enables runners to encourage each other in the lead up to race day. Runners must use the hashtag movejozi (#movejozi), to have their run captured on the leader board.
Runners who joined Nike’s first training runs in August and ignited the #movejozi movement are invited to pre-register by way of a unique code sent to them and secure their spot in the WE RUN JOZI 10km race.
Enter online www.werun.co.za
The race has two categories, namely Student and Open. The race fee for Students, with a valid student card, is set at R100 per person and R200 per person in the Open category. Runners will receive a race pack including their official Nike WE RUN JOZI 10km race T-shirt featuring their unique race number, and their own timing chip at the race expo ahead of race day.
A portion of the race fee is automatically donated to the development of Alex Butterflies, a running development programme for children in primary schools between the ages of seven and twelve years.
