Mount Meru Marathon, which used to be Arusha’s most popular athletics event, has been revived again but the original running distance halved.
But sure enough, the Marathon will race in Arusha, at the foot of Meru, Tanzania’s second highest mountain.
The race is now expected to run on the third day of November 2024 and will be flagged off from the General Tyre Grounds of Themi Hills in the Njiro section of the Northern City.
But while the original race used to be a full 42 kilometers long Marathon, the new instalment of Mount Meru will feature a 21 kilometers sprint as its main event.
Other races to color the new Mount Meru Marathon 2024 include the usual 5 kilometers and an additional 2.5 Kilometers Fun running events.
The first to ten winners of the Marathon in all categories are to be awarded with prizes though the organizers did not divulge how much the runners will pocket.
This time the Mount Meru Marathon 2024 is organized by Bernadinnah Mosha a veteran sports personality and educator in Arusha.
Mosha reveals that the event aims to boost, among other things, tourism, on the fact that Arusha is a Safari Capital, build on health and encourage parents to nurture the male child.
“We have always been caring for girls at the expense of boys thinking the male children were stronger but on the contrary, they need even more attention than the female ones,” she said.
According to Dinah, the race used to trend globally but recently disappeared from the sports scene but now they are reviving the event so that many people around the world still remember the marathon.
The Arusha Member of Parliament Mrisho Gambo said the race carries an important identity for Arusha because Mount Meru is the country’s second highest peak and ranks on the ninth position on the African Continent.
“I will also participate in the Mount Meru Marathon 2024,” he declared.
Mount Meru International is the oldest Marathon in Tanzania as it has been racing in Arusha in the 80s, 90s and a few more years after the turn of the new millennium, before the race went underground.
It was the most popular sporting event in Tanzania attracting thousands of participants from all over the country, East Africa and overseas countries and more often involving Motor Racing interludes and cultural events.
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