Kingston, Jamaica; The second staging of the CB Group UWI 5K Run/Walk will get underway on Sunday, November 17 and will see a change in the route which will now offer much more of the University campus.
Kingston, Jamaica; The second staging of the CB Group UWI 5K Run/Walk will get underway on Sunday, November 17 and will see a change in the route which will now offer much more of the University campus.
The route will now begin inside the University at the Mona Bowl where it will lead to the August Town gate. The course then follows the Sir John Golding Road, which is the only part of the race that is outside of the actual university grounds this year. Passing the Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Centre, competitors will then re-enter the University campus at the Irvine Hall gate where they will follow Shed Lane to the famous Ring Road.
The entrants this year will be privy to a tour of the University as they go around the Ring Road with the many infrastructural enhancements on show. Runners and walkers will be able to get a look at the Towers Hall of residence, the Medical Sciences complex as well the Law building, all recently constructed, as they make their way around the Ring Road.
The Ring Road leg will come to an end as racers are filtered right, shortly after passing Juici Patties, unto Gibraltar Way as they pass the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communications as well as the sport department offices. The route then turns left unto Gibraltar Camp Road after competitors would have glimpsed the newly constructed Post Graduate Housing Complex before heading toward the University of the West Indies School of Nursing, UWISON and the Health Centre building.
Entrants then go right, and will pass the infamous Rex Nettleford Hall before going by the A.Z.
Preston Hall. Rounding the Students Union and filtering toward the final portion of the race contestants will have a back straight, after descending the hill to the Mona Bowl as they fight toward the finish for those who do intend to compete for first place honours.
The CB Group UWI 5K Run/Walk despite the route change still promises to be an event that generates maximum participation as UWI alumni not only use the event as a means of staying physically fit, but also as a means to reconnect with past classmates and re-establish bonds made while undertaking their studies.
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