Dubai Sports Council and the (5:30) Running Club and Asics Sports Products Company have announced the launch of a new innovative event, "The Home Marathon", which comes within the framework of the Dubai Sports Council's pioneering initiative "Be active… and keep you healthy", and within the national campaign "Khalk" At Home », which aims to motivate the public to stay at home, and encourages various groups of society to continue physical exercises and brown activity exercises during the current period to maintain a healthy body, and to strengthen blood circulation and the immune system.
And the 10th marathon kicks off for a distance of 42.195 kilometers, and the marathon will be a time race running inside the house that will last 10 hours, starting from eight in the morning and ending at six in the evening, and the race is available for all ages and physical levels of men and women, and the rider is free to choose the way to participate in running , Whether in one room or in all rooms of the house.
Registration in the race can be done through the official website of the Half-Running Club, via the link (www.530run.ae), and registration continues to participate until six o'clock in the evening, and participation is available individually to all people of different nationalities and ages from within the country or outside, provided that the start of the race is taken into account The timing of the UAE.
Those wishing to participate must use a sports shoe, a smart phone or a smart watch, and use the Strava sports program on the phone or watch to track the running distance, provided that the account is registered in the program in the name of the subscription owner, and then participate through the program in the "Home Marathon" group.
Running inside the house is the most important condition of the participation. Participants must run on the ground and not on any device. Participation will be monitored through the Struva program, as any participation outside the home or on running devices or any other equipment will be excluded.
The three winners, men and women who managed to finish the race in the fastest time, receive in-kind awards from the company Asics, in addition to receiving a ticket to participate in the Moscow Marathon, and the top ten receive a free entry to the Vertex Fitness Club, and all participants who have finished the race also receive On the Aix shirt and the medal of participation, in addition to a certificate of participation from the club.
The founder of the fifth-and-half running club, Fouad Nasser, said in a press statement: “These circumstances made us think outside the box to invent a new thing that could benefit the community and urge all its members to stay at home and maintain their health and fitness through exercising, so we prepared a plan to help runners Preparing for the marathon by offering running training sessions to be broadcast live with the instructor, Chris Boone, the Ambassador of the Asics Company, and the teacher Zainab Fahd also provides lessons in yoga. Nasser added: “We thank the Dubai Sports Council for its great support for this important and innovative event. We also thank all of our partners in organizing the event, including Asics and Vertex, for their great contribution by providing support with training classes and prizes.”
One of the conditions for the marathon is to run on the ground in the home, and not on any device, and participation will be monitored through the "Strafa" program.