Running for health awareness

The Red Bull Run organised by a small, but enthusiastic crowd of around 50 enthusiasts was held at Jalvihar, Necklace Road on Sunday. Titled ‘Let’s Run Together’, organised by Team Hyderabad Wings (as part of Wings for Life World Run) its prime purpose was ‘charity and health awareness’.

This field event in Hyderabad was in sync with a similar global effort taking place in 34 countries where people were running to ‘extend support for those with spinal cord injuries’.

The USP of the run was a Selfie Run app - which was to be downloaded to enable the runners calculate basic stuff like the number of kms they had run in the appointed time. There were appeals for donations to help sufferers of spinal cord injuries too, which could be enabled through the App.

As one of the organisers, Abhinanadan Raj Emmadi said, “It may seem low profile, but the passion of the participants more than made up for it.” He added that, other than the twin cities, Ahmedabad also has organised a run on the same theme at the same time.