Race For The Cure in Rome 2012

A few months ago, I had mentioned I wanted to participate in this year’s Race For The Cure.  However, as we were unsure if we would be in town this weekend, I held off registering for it.

As stated in my post on sport events in Rome, if I was going to town, I wasn’t going to miss this event. It’s something close to my heart.

When we knew were would be in Rome, it was too late to register online but I found out that it would be possible to register in person the morning of the race. So we got there relatively early and was surprised to see there was already a good crowd.

Obviously, we weren’t the only ones signing up last minute.  The sign up process was easy and for a minimum donation of €13 you get a goody bag, some products from sponsors was well as a tshirt.

However, the bag was an issue for us as we didn’t want to have to carry it during the run.  In my opinion, a drawstring backpack would have been more comfortable.  Fortunately, at the end, we managed to stuff it in the moped.

Prior to the start of the race, they had a warm-up session where they did some light aerobic exercise.  They should have called CoachG in to give them a “real” warm-up.

On the other hand, the serious runners, that doesn’t refer to us, were warming up on their own by the starting line.

We figured that since we were not doing the competitive race, we lined up in what we believe would be the middle of the pack. As such, it was difficult to understand what was going upfront.

It was a slow walk as we made our way to the starting line and when we did, it was almost 20 minutes since the official start time of 10.00am.  What was funny was that as we just got started,  we saw that those doing the competitive run were already headed back.

There was a huge turn out and when we were done, there were still many who were headed back to the finishing line.  It’s really not a competition but a show of support all for a good cause.  It was great to see this and it was clear that most people were out here just to do that!

There will be several Race of the Cure events in Italy through out the year and the next one is in Bari on May 27th.  For more information about how to register for future races, here is the website.

P.S. I just read that there were about 50,000 participants in this year’s Race for the Cure in Rome!