Nike night race offers challenging course

The race offers runners a challenging course, of which a section on route splits, with half of the field running 'Move Uptown' and the other half 'Move Downtown', for the same distance. Merging halfway into the race, the runners unite at the race village just after the finish line at Mary Fitzgerald Square.

During registration, runners must select which part of the split route they will run. They will then receive a unique race day tee, colour coded to the split section on route. Every runner who crosses the finish line will receive a medal, gain access to the race village where they will be able to view the leader-board as it updates live. The Nike+ leader-board is a digital challenge on www.movejozi.co.za encouraging runners to run more and to collectively reach the South Africa target of 375,000km by race day.

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The Nike+ Running app and chat features further enables runners to encourage each other in the lead up to race day. Runners must use #movejozi to have their run captured on the leader-board. Runners who joined Nike's first training runs in August and ignited the #movejozi movement are invited to pre-register by way of a unique code sent to them and secure their spot in the race. The online registration for the night race opens on Tuesday, 17 September at 10am via the official race page www.werun.co.za.

The race has two categories, namely Student and Open. The race fee for students, with a valid student card is R100, and R200 per person in the open category. A portion of the race fee is automatically donated to the development of Alex Butterflies, a running development programme for children in primary schools between the ages of seven and 12 years. The programme, managed by professional coaches, seeks to inspire children to be physically active and develop children holistically through the introduction of running in a fun and safe environment.

With only a few weeks to race day, runners can enhance their training experience by joining the weekly Nike+ Run Clubs from the Nike Only Stores in Rosebank, Centurion Mall and Tyger Valley Centre. There will be two additional training runs in the city in the lead up to race day which runners can join via Nike's social media pages on Facebook and Twitter @nikerunningza.