The Councilor for Sports of the City of Lorca, Juan Miguel Bayonas, and the delegate of the newspaper La Verdad in Lorca, Pilar Wals, delivered this morning to the president of the Retoyosipuedo, Francisco Montes, the money raised in the V San Silvestre 'City of Lorca 'that was held on Sunday, December 31, and whose amount amounts to 3,450 euros.
Also present in this installment, Isabel Morales, vice-president of the Association Lorquina de Enfermos de Parkinson (ASLEP) organization to which this year is destined # retoyosipuedo2018.
Bayonas has indicated that "this test, which this year has completed its fifth edition, organized by the Department of Sports and the newspaper La Verdad, has become one of the most popular races and has more participation. consolidated as one of the major sporting events of the annual calendar, with a good atmosphere since many runners do with fun costumes.
The mayor of Sports recalled that "from the Department of Sports we are delighted one more year to collaborate with this challenge, which is clear that the formula sports plus solidarity returns to give a successful result." In addition, there are several sports events in those that we already go hand in hand with the #retoyosipuedo as in the San Silvestre, and we hope that they are many more ".
In this edition of the San Silvestre lorquina almost 1,000 people have participated, of which, 804 reached the goal of all categories: absolute, petates, juvenile / infant, prebenjamín and benjamín.
This money will be used, according to the president of the #retoyosipuedo Team, Francisco Montes, to continue helping ASLEP in its daily work with the integral equipment of the physiotherapy gym of the Association with a hydraulic stretcher, microwave lamp, and the rest of high cost utensils, to which the association can not cope ".
From the organization they have thanked the collaboration of the volunteers of #retoyosipuedo, ASLEP and the Athletics Club Puertas Lorca.
As well as Local Police Lorca, Spanish Red Cross and the Emergency Department of the City of Lorca.
Another outstanding aspect of this race is its route, the historic center of Lorca, and streets of the most emblematic as Lope Gisbert, from where he left to tour Prince Alfonso, Nogalte, Corredera, Juan de Toledo, Corredera, Alamo, Plaza Spain, Santiago , Marsilla, Plaza Ibreño, La Merced, La Alberca, Santo Domingo, among others.
For its part, the Lorquina Association of Parkinson's Patients (ASLEP) thanked the #retoyosipuedo for their collaboration, on the one hand, in the economic aspect to afford the equipment of their gym and on the other, the support to visualize the work of this collective and sensitize society about Parkinson's.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca