Kingston City Run to highlight rich Jamaican cultural legacy
KINGSTON, FAMOUS for its fine natural harbour, backed by the splendour of the Blue Mountains, rich in history and architecture simultaneously, impresses you with its setting and overwhelms you with its noise and hustle.
Like a plate of spicy jerk washed down with a cold Red Stripe beer, a visit to Kingston is essential to taste the rich excitement of modern Jamaica.
According to Nicola Madden-Greig, co-chair and co-founder of the Kingston City Run Organising Committee, with advanced preparations to host this year’s event, they want to highlight the rich, vibrant cultural heritage of the city.
“We want to position Kingston as a welcoming city. It is the island’s cultural and economic heart with downtown home to historic buildings, the courts, banks, street markets, and one of the Caribbean’s greatest museums,” Madden-Greig said.
“It also holds the city’s best hotels and restaurants with its cluster of tall buildings, developed as a recreational and tourism product,” she added.
The Kingston City run utilises the scenic, cultural and mystical assets of Kingston and St Andrew by ensuring that the race route is configured to highlight the best of Kingston and allow spectators ample opportunities to line up and cheer on the runners.
According to Madden-Greig, this year, they want to focus more on helping homeless persons and at-risk youth so that they, too, do not end up on the streets.
The seventh annual Kingston City Run on Sunday, March 17, 2019, will this year feature four race events.
Keisha Hill/Senior Gleaner Writer