the essential
The 3rd edition will take place on Sunday October 13. The City, at the initiative, has already mobilized its partners.
Sunday October 13, there will be people in pink in the city. The football Euro, the Olympics and the start of the school year will already be a distant memory and, in the streets of a city where the businesses will have been adorned in pink for a few days, hundreds of people will set off from the stud farm ready to race 6 kilometers for a good cause. In any case, this is the wish of the City’s elected officials who, at the start of the week, brought together the partners of this operation.
Véolia which will provide the thousand pink t-shirts, the League against cancer for which this operation is intended, and the Cami which defends sport as a vector of healing, two structures which will provide the “little hands” necessary for this organization, the MJC and its fitness club which will ensure the warm-up before departure, the Regional Cancer Screening Coordination Center (CRDC) which carries out its awareness-raising mission and the Cassiopée traders’ association which will be responsible for spreading the message and probably organize a raffle. “And we don’t forget the city’s sports associations, whose volunteers will ensure the smooth running of the race in the city,” underlines deputy Monique Herment-Bultel, whose importance to this is known. appointment.
Two 3 km loops
An event which is becoming more and more important in the city, like what is happening in Milau with the “Belle de Millau” and its more than two thousand participants or in Laguiole, where we also swim against cancer. “Awareness-raising actions will also be organized throughout the preceding week,” promises the Ruthenian elected official.
Note that for this new edition of the Rose de Rodez it will not be a two-kilometer circuit to be covered three times but a three-kilometer circuit to be covered twice. “We wanted to go a little further into the heart of the city.” Literally as well as figuratively.
Meet on October 13 at 9 a.m. at the stud farm, which will be the nerve center of the operation. In the meantime, with the nice weather coming, it’s time to train. Especially since… it’s good for your health!
