Flagged off by Avneet Sidhu, SP Jaspal Singh, DSP Romana
By Amrit Pal Singh Brar
Bathinda, 24 March, 2019: After the grand success of Bathinda Half Marathon 2018, the Bathinda Runners Club proudly organised its 2nd edition for the year 2019 Bathinda Half Marathon on 24th March 2019 in 21km, 10kms, 5kms timed run 1km fun run for kids beginning from lush grounds of The Rose Garden, Bathinda and tracing beautiful roads around lake and thermal plant towards malout road and ring road.
The 21km RUN was flagged off by Mrs. Avneet Sidhu, DSP, Bathinda and Mr Amit Kumar, Chief, Divisional Sales Retail sales, the 10km was flagged off by SP City Sh. Jaspal Singh, DSP Sh. GURJEET Singh Romana, Mrs Satwant Kaur,84 yr old cancer survivor who not only decorated the event by their presence and appreciated the initiative of Bathinda runners team for promoting the healthy lifestyle through running.
While talking to Mr. Tejinder Singh, the President of the club along with other members of the organising team; our correspondent came to know that more than 1500 participants from across India participated in Bathinda Half Marathon 2019.
Pre - run Warm up session, Aerobics & DJ were the main attractions for the runners, and after the Run all participants were provided with medals and refreshments.
“Organizing specially on the theme of Run to fight against cancer and Drug abuse is our main motive to make the people aware of this health hazard highly prevalent in Malwa Region and to set out to fight againt - CANCER " ; said Mr. Tejinder Singh. He said we want to involve one & all, in this drive of Fight Against CANCER and drug abuse with a war like commitment.