After the huge success of our first marathon last year on May 1st in Westgate Community Conservancy, we are now getting ready for the second marathon to be held in a few days. This year will be bigger! We’ve received interest from many communities around Westgate and people here in Westgate are already training hard. The Sasaab airstrip is the perfect training ground – although we had hyenas whooping at us on Day 1 and jackals surprised to see a group of warriors running on the airstrip on Day 2 of the training.
This year we have 3 races: a Half-Marathon, a Women’s Race and a Children’s 2 km Fun Race. The event has been co-sponsored by Westgate Conservancy, Carter Safaris, Ewaso Lions and Sasaab Lodge and will have representatives from all taking part in the races. Goats will be prizes once again with additional kids prizes this year. Please consider making a donation for this event so we can get more prizes for the kids and others running.
We’re all very excited and everyone is talking about this upcoming event. Find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for updates of the event!
Group photo of 2010 “Running for Lions” marathon