Hyderabad: Some 10,000 participants joined the She Team Run organized by the City Police at People’s Plaza, Necklace Road here this morning. The event was held in three categories of 10K, 5K and 2K Runs. The participants started arriving from 4 am. Additional Commissioner of Police, Crime & SIT Shikha Goel, along with Shezzi from Radio Mirchi engaged them with stage activation.
Chief Secretary Shailendra Kumar Joshi, Director General of Police M Mahendar Reddy, TSRTC Managing Director Sunil Sharma, GHMC Commissioner Dana Kishore, City Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar were present. Governor ESL Narasimhan, who was the chief guest flagged off the run.
E.S.L. Narasimhan, congratulated the participants for standing up to the cause of women safety and exhorted them to give the slogans “He or She – you are with me” and “Her safety; his safety is our safety”. He assured the citizens of Telangana that all of them are completely secure in the state.
The National Anthem played by the Police Band sounded the bugle for the event. At 6.30 AM as per the exact schedule the first run – 10k run flag off was beautifully set up with an impressive cavalcade of the police mounted unit & the Police Band playing motivational tracks.
As the Flags were raised for the 10 K runners the TIMER MATS were activated for the RFID Embedded BIB runners to automatically record their start timing. This was followed by the 5k and 2k in equal time gaps of 5 minutes each.
The three routes were very well provided for with Water, energy drinks, medical emergencies for the runners in case of any requirements. The runners were assisted in the routes with Km markers, signages, proper traffic control, as well as live bands from the Police department entertaining them as they crossed the routes in 3 places. The first of the runners reached the venue and slowly all the runners started gathering back. As they gathered, they collect a small box of refreshments & juice. At around 8 Am in the morning the prize distribution was initiated and 6 members who were winners in 10K category chosen as per the timer mats and technical timing data were honoured.
Sports personalities and celebrities like Pooja Hegde, Aruna Reddy, Niharika and Rahul Vijay apart from special heroes on the wheel chairs and para-runners too joined the event in blue T-shirts. The three routes were provided with water, energy drinks, medical emergencies for the runners in case of any requirements. The runners were also assisted on the routes with markers, signages, proper traffic control, as well as live bands from the Police department entertaining them as they crossed the routes. (NSS)
