Published on : Friday, October 26, 2018
The three-day run, planned by the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association’s (JHTA) Kingston Chapter, is scheduled for March 15 to 17.
While speaking at the recent introduction at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, Mr. White said Kingston is “well deserving” of turning out to be a part of the global trend that sees people travelling to “experience what it’s like to run in a marathon. I think that’s the experience that makes the transition of [the] Kingston City Run to [include a] marathon, a really bold move by the organisers,” he noted.
Mr. White defined the event’s introduction as a “fantastic development” for the country as well as Caribbean, “because I believe Jamaica has a leadership role to play in the business of driving this region of the world forward”. He disagreed the fact that running continues to be “a way of life for a lot of people in a lot of places… people [who] we would like to show [more of] Jamaica [to]”.
Noting the accomplishment of the annual Reggae Marathon in Negril, which, he said, has gained a “really good positon” globally over the years since its inception, Mr. White contended that Kingston is equally deserving of being a “part of the experience of, not just running, but meeting new people, making friends, and creating a lifetime of memories”.