Belize City Council urges citizens to get fit
The Belize City Council is calling all citizens to join a fitness awareness run on Wednesday morning. The event will challenge runners of all levels to hit the pavement in search of a healthier lifestyle. According to the coordinator of youth and sports for the Belize City Council, Ernest Morris, the purpose is to encourage people to think healthy.
Ernest Morris, Youth & Sports Coordinator, B.C.C.
“Our idea between me and councillor Castillo and the mayor, we decided to take the programme from the challenge day: run, walk and ride and to be more regular with it by doing a programme, maybe an event every month and to just encourage people to be healthy by exercising.”
Patrick Jones
“Who gets to participate in this awareness run?”
Ernest Morris
“Well anybody within the community. We’re really targeting the community people, people that are not really exercising. They are not getting out and being healthy. So that’s one of our goals…mainly I am encouraging a lot of other runners, elite runners and other people that do exercise at the Marion Jones and other places, I try to encourage them to come out on the first run. And with that we might be able to attract and to set an example and to encourage other people to come out also and to exercise and to be healthy.”
“It’s not something that you have to do. It’s just for you to get out and do your best, do what you can and you can stop there, and another time you come back and try again. And it also will encourage people to say well, “man, I am out of shape”, and that might encourage them to get out in the morning time and do their own run and to get themselves in shape for the next event.”
The run starts at five-thirty in the morning at the Marion Jones Stadium, with two routes to choose from. Those who feel up to it and want to take the four mile track, will head down Princess Margaret Drive over the Belcan Bridge, onto Cemetery Road, Orange Street, across the Swing Bridge, Queen Street, Barrack Road back to the stadium. The shorter course will take the early morning runners along Princess Margaret Drive, into Freetown Road, Barrack Road and back to the Marion Jones stadium.
