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Cavaliers Sports & Tour Club outlines Race Walk month events
The cream of the country’s race walkers will join several new comers and a host of overseas participants to compete for honours when the Cavaliers Sports and Tour Club (CSTC) launches its 10th race walk month of activities with an emancipation day race walk today.
The race will commence ay 06:30 hrs at the first bus-shed Kuru Kururu Linden Highway and proceed to the Soesdyke Community Policing Group’s office, Soesdyke junction for the finish. The CSTC activities which are being held under the theme Race Walking -A Healthy Sport is dedicated to the memory of its Late Founder\Co-ordinator, Ms Olga Harry, who died earlier this year.
Several other races have been planned for the 10th Race Walk month of activities. On Sunday, August 11, walkers will converge at the Bust of the late Executive President, Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham at Vlissingen and Public Road, Kitty at 06:30 hrs for the Burnham Memorial Race Walk. The Race will proceed along Vlissingen Road en route to the Botanical Gardens, Regent Street.
On Sunday August 18th Walkers will compete in the Linden Race Walk which gets underway at 06:30 hrs at the Linden Bridge (Wismar end) and proceed along the Winifred Gaskin’s Highway, up to the Bayroc Recreational Centre, Wisroc for the ending.
The CSTC events continue on Saturday August 24, with the 1st Anna Regina Town Day Walk. The event will commence at 06:30 hrs at Queenstown and proceeds to the Damon Statue, Anna Regina for the finish. This will be followed by another race from Dartmouth to Damon Statue on Saturday August 31.
The organisers will bring the curtains down on activities on Saturday, August 31 with a 10K around Soesdyke starting from 06:30 hrs. The race starts at Cecil Harry’s photo Studio, Back Road and continues around the community and culminates at the place of origin.
Sessions on Race Walking will be held during the month throughout the country, exhibition on Race Walking will be staged on Saturday, August 10 at the club’s headquarters Back Road Soesdyke. A 3-Day Junior Race Walking Camp will also be held.
The club will also hold a special award ceremony on August 23. Among those that will receive awards are Public Service Minister Jennifer Westford, Kurshid Sattaur, Joseph L Da Silva, Kaieteur News reporter Michael Benjamin, national Race Walk champion Rudolph Mitchell and female Donna Ramkissoon. The late Olga Harry will also be remembered.
According the newly appointed Co-ordinator of the CSTC, Cecil Harry, the executive body of the CSTC intends to intensify efforts to send a team of Race Walkers to the 2016 Brazil Olympics.
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