Elderly people play the drum to celebrate the Red May Run. [Photo by jiading.gov.vn] |
More than 500 elderly people from 35 running teams of the city joined a run on May 3 in the Century Park in Xuhang town, Jiading district.
The Red May Race started at 8 am. Many old runners got up early and took the first subway from downtown to Jiading. A team of runners from Huangpu district spent two hours riding to the park.
Zhu Jiaquan, 85, a senior member of Jiading elderly runners’ team, has run every day for the past 65 years. He jogs about 30 minutes every morning and said the habit keeps him healthy.
Wang Xuelong, head of elderly runners' team in Jiading senior citizens’ association, said the race was held every two years in different districts to encourage more people, old and young, to join the sport.
The Jiading district's elderly runners' team has been established for 33 years. It currently has 55 members who run five to seven times every week.