Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – Love to run? Lace up your running shoes and get ready to participate in the SEAPAL Vallarta Half Marathon and Recreational Race. After two years of absence, the adrenaline returns on Sunday, March 27 with the 10th SEAPAL Vallarta Half Marathon and 20th Recreational Race, a sports festival that will close the activities for World Water Day 2022.
The call launched in recent days establishes that the race will be run at distances of 21 and 5 kilometers, for which runners can register at the agency’s central offices located in the Lázaro Cárdenas neighborhood, Downtown Pitillal, Coapinole, Downtown Ixtapa and the module inside the UNIRSE building, from Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 3:30 pm.
The deadline to register is Saturday, March 26, the day on which a registration module will be installed on the esplanade of the ‘Agustín Flores Contreras’ Municipal Sports Unit, where the race package, containing the shirt and the competition chip, in addition to the number for the race, will be delivered.
The categories in which the Half Marathon will be run are: Free (18 to 39 years old), Master (40 to 49 years old), Veterans (50 to 59 years old), Veterans Plus for those over 60 years old and people with disabilities.
The 5 Kilometers will be governed under the Free category (18 to 34 years old), Master (35 to 39 years old), Master Plus (40 to 44 years old), Veterans (45 to 49 years old), Veterans Plus (50 to 54 years old) and Veterans Free (55 and up). The start of the Half Marathon will be at 7:00 am, while the Recreational Race will start 10 minutes later.
As on previous occasions, the hotel strip will host the race. The start and finish line will be located in the central lanes of Francisco Medina Ascencio Avenue in front of the ‘Agustín Flores Contreras’ Sports Unit, with the Las Juntas intersection as the return point for the participants in the 21 kilometers race, while in the distance of 5 kilometers, runners will return at the intersection with Avenida Fluvial Vallarta.
Due to the conditions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the organizing committee is attentive to the current provisions of the Health Table and, if required, random tests will be carried out, for which SEAPAL Vallarta will grant all the facilities for the benefit of participants.
For more information, consult the call on the agency’s website, as well as on the official Facebook and Twitter accounts.