7,500 runners set to join 7-Eleven Run 2020 Davao Leg

The 7-Eleven Run 2020 race organizers present to the media the race kit of the participants.


DAVAO CITY---Some 7,500 runners all over Mindanao are expected to join the Davao leg of the 7-Eleven Run 2020 at the SM City Davao grounds on February 1-2.
The run which is on its second edition is more bigger and grander in terms of participants and prizes.
Michelle Santillan a member of the race operation team revealed last year only 5,000 runners joined the race and this year the number has increased.
Santillan said this year the prizes are also bigger and they added two more races this year the 21 kilometer relay race and 42 kilometer relay race.
"There are more participants this year because more people are aware of our running event," Santillan said
In a press-conference at the 7-Eleven head office in Mamay Road, Lanang here last January 10, Santillan said the relay team would comprise of four members of boys and girls.
Santillan said the winner of the relay races will win P20,000 in the 21 kilometers and P40,000 in the 42 kilometers.
"Aside from the individual and team winners all the participants will also receive goodies at the end of the race," she said.
She said in the individual races the 42 kilometer run winner will get P20,000.
"The top performers in the Davao, Cebu and Manila legs will also get the chance to compete abroad somewhere in Asia," she said.
Santillan said the runner from the Davao leg that they brought abroad was 2019 SEA Games women's marathon gold medallist Christine Hallasco in Phuket, Thailand.
Meanwhile, Davao leg technical coordinator Tomas Tan said this year's route will be shorter compared in 2019.
Tan said the 42K races will start at 11 p.m. of February 1 and will end the following day, February 2, where the rest of the categories including 3K, 5K, 5K buddy run, 10K, 16K, 21K, 21K relay and 32K will kick off.
"This year's route will pass through Quimpo Boulevard, Quirino Avenue then turn left to J.P. Laurel Avenue passing Victoria Plaza Mall, Abreeza, SM Lanang and turning around to corner R. Castillo Street passing Tropika Hotel and back to origin," Tan told reporters who attended the press briefing.