12000 people run in Hasselt
Yesterday there was a massive participation on the 27th edition of “Dwaars door Hasselt”. Neither the rain nor the wind could spoil this traditional race around the city where 12000 people of all ages participated.
Thousands of people were running through Hasselt on October 11th.
In this 27th edition there were 6 different races with the common denominator of starting in Kolonel Dusartplein. (Here is the program). The most important was the 15 km race, with 3400 participants. (Here is the route: the start, the middle and the last part). The winners? Rik Ceulemans on men´s 15 km race and Vanja Cnops on women´s. (Here is the rest of finalists).
Even the rain couldn´t spoil the race. I could smell in the street the sportive spirit of superation, cooperation, healthycare and well-being. And many specatators who didn´t want to stop supporting their relatives and friends runners.
Xios runners did a good job althought no one could win, witch is a pity.
But, the most important thing is to participate, isn´t it?
Sources:
- Info about Dwaars vor Hasselt
- Info about the race (French)
- For running in Belgium: calendar of races and maratons, blogs… (French)
- Running routes and places in Belgium
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Nice. Snazzy way of looking at it!
thank-you!!=)
Of course! Living in Hasselt I see a lot of running people. Children and adult have their training in gyms, in parks, even around the small ring of Hasselt.
To my mind, it’s very healthy to run on the open air. Running helps you to get fit and also provides you with good mood)) I think Hasselt is suitable place for such competitions because there are many comfortable tracks here. Maybe someone thinks that it’s more important to run just for yourself, but I’m sure that just competitions and this element of contest play an important role too: you feel yourself inside the process, you can evaluate your running achievements you even can improve your self esteem.
By the way, each of us can start to run at any age! On this site http://www.sport.be/starttorun/2009/nl there are some useful tips for beginners about how to warm up, cold down, some nutritional advises and also some running routs in Belgium.
So, thank you for this material because not a lot of media covered this event)
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