Source:Pinkathon.com
Pinkathon – India‘s biggest women’s run, is an initiative of the United Sisters Foundation and organised by Maximus Mice and Media Solutions Pvt Ltd. The 21km run was created with the specific purpose of getting more and more women to adopt a fitter lifestyle and to highlight the need for increased awareness about Breast cancer and other health issues that put women’s lives at risk. State Bank of India took up the title sponsorship of the Pinkathon in 2014.
Yesterday, the 21-km ‘Pinkathon’ run now in its ninth edition ran remotely across the country, to create awareness about breast cancer.
Mumbai resident Kranti Salvi who celebrated her 50th birthday, a couple of years ago by deciding to run her milestone marathon on Berlin’s fast and flat course wearing a sari, set a Guinness record for being the fastest to complete a marathon in the nine yards.
Fifteen others from Mumbai will hit the roads in saris and sneakers, inspired by Salvi – veteran of 15 full-distance marathons (42.195 km), including Berlin (3 hours 57 mins) and Boston (3:50), decided to participate in Mumbai picking out yet another Khandeshi Silk sari for the run, “A bunch of us from Gurgaon will commemorate Rani Laxmibai’s birthday (November 19) belatedly by running 3 km, 10 km or 21 km in saris,” she says, stressing that what started out as a sartorial statement at Berlin is now simply a clarion call inviting women to not be deterred from running because of what they wear. Shoes are what’s most important in running, she insists.
Source:Pinkathon.com
Pinkathon – India‘s biggest women’s run, is an initiative of the United Sisters Foundation and organised by Maximus Mice and Media Solutions Pvt Ltd. The 21km run was created with the specific purpose of getting more and more women to adopt a fitter lifestyle and to highlight the need for increased awareness about Breast cancer and other health issues that put women’s lives at risk. State Bank of India took up the title sponsorship of the Pinkathon in 2014.
Yesterday, the 21-km ‘Pinkathon’ run now in its ninth edition ran remotely across the country, to create awareness about breast cancer.
Mumbai resident Kranti Salvi who celebrated her 50th birthday, a couple of years ago by deciding to run her milestone marathon on Berlin’s fast and flat course wearing a sari, set a Guinness record for being the fastest to complete a marathon in the nine yards.
Fifteen others from Mumbai will hit the roads in saris and sneakers, inspired by Salvi – veteran of 15 full-distance marathons (42.195 km), including Berlin (3 hours 57 mins) and Boston (3:50), decided to participate in Mumbai picking out yet another Khandeshi Silk sari for the run, “A bunch of us from Gurgaon will commemorate Rani Laxmibai’s birthday (November 19) belatedly by running 3 km, 10 km or 21 km in saris,” she says, stressing that what started out as a sartorial statement at Berlin is now simply a clarion call inviting women to not be deterred from running because of what they wear. Shoes are what’s most important in running, she insists.
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