Already 1,600 runners registered to participate in the popular career that closes the year in Cartagena.
The deadline will remain open until 8 pm on December 26.
Organized by the City of Cartagena and La Verdad
The City of Cartagena organizes once more the San Silvestre Cross, popular race for excellence with which closes the year, held the same day December 31, and the oldest in the region, plus more children are between participants, counting, for the third year in collaboration with the newspaper La Verdad.
The Councillor for Sports, Diego Ortega, accompanied by the general director of the newspaper, Antonio González, and the delegate of Truth in Cartagena, Gregory Marble, launched today, during the presentation of the race, an invitation to the public to participate a customary cross at Christmas, or as the mayor said, encourage whoever come to run it and who does not, who come to see and enjoy the festive atmosphere that permeates it.
So far 1,600 have registered runners, and we hope to reach 3,000, surpassing the figure of 2,500 participants last year, said Gonzalez.
The registration period, which must be made ​​online through the website of The Truth , will remain open until 8 pm on December 26, and collection of dorsal, chip and T can be made ​​on 27, 28, 29 and 30 in the sports shop Tennis Mediterranean Park, during business hours, plus day 31 at noon for those who can not pick before.
The test will start from 17.00 on day 31, with the youngest race of 400 meters, which will continue, quarter of an hour later, at 17.15 hours, the fry, 800 meters, to finish at 17.30 hours, with absolute proof, with a distance of 5200 meters through the heart of the old town.
The intent of this race kept clear Gregorio Marble, have fun, enjoy Cartagena at this time and make a little sport family to finish the year well.
CHANGES DURING Tra FICO SAN SILVESTRE
The tour of the San Silvestre runs mostly by pedestrianized streets, but in some areas traffic regulation will be necessary, for which there will be members of the local police, who will join the collaboration of Civil Protection and staff the Department of Sports, around thirty people to be distributed by the ways in which runners will.
The San Silvestre Exiting from the Town Hall Square and pass through street, Puertas de Murcia, Carmen, doors Madrid, Carlos III, University Square, Sister Francisca Armendariz, Duke, Gisbert, Navalmoral, Wall of Mar, General Ordonez, Air, Jara Campos, Plaza San Francisco, Knight, Charity Merganser, López Pinto Square, Park, Santa Florentina, Puertas de Murcia, Mayor and again, arrival at the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
In the section of the street Carlos III, where the race runs to the contrary, be necessary to cut the traffic ahead, handling agents monitor the various crosses and divert cars by the side streets.
Meanwhile, volunteers will be devoted basically to keep traffic while passing vehicles retained the race for each point.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena