Puerto Vallarta Marathon ‘2018’
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – After a couple of record years, the Puerto Vallarta Tourism Trust (Fidetur) is striving hard to raise the bar of recreational activities in the region by welcoming more and more national and international arrivals through pro-active promotional campaigns that focus on attracting different niche markets.
As Fidetur Chairman Álvaro Garciarce said:
“The great tourist results that were obtained in 2016 and in 2017 are a motivation for the Puerto Vallarta Tourism Trust to continue along the same route, as well as a challenge to set higher objectives for tourism promotion.”
THE EVENTS
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico is undoubtedly the center-heart of the world’s most exotic destinations & luxury home rentals Mexico for tourists worldwide to visits every year and get fascinated with Nature’s divine miracles. Round the year, the classical town celebrates and organizes a series of colorful activities and first-class amusements that can improve the overall cruise experience for the residents and as well as the voyagers.
Likewise, the year 2018 has brought ‘Marathon’ this time in addition to those plenty of amazing event series and festivals like, Gourmet Festival, the Vallarta-Nayarit Gastronómica, multiple fishing tournaments and the classical food competitions to make the visitors more excited and overwhelmed.
The newly added event was something ‘fresh’ for Puerto Vallarta’ dwellers to witness and was planned to be organized on Sunday, April 15 with the Centenario Cycling Route to be marched on 28th of April to offer the participating cyclists with three distances, including a 100 kilometers round-trip ride to Punta Mita.
Besides this, Puerto Vallarta organized a grand, 50th anniversary ceremony to celebrate its existence on the globe, alongside Centennial as a municipality that will further represent an excellent opportunity for the visitors to witness a flood of music, entertainment, traditions, gastronomy and sports-related events on 31st of May, 2018 . The race is a measure of the calendar of revelries set to be held this year as Puerto Vallarta celebrates its 100th year as a metropolis and 50th anniversary as city on 31st of May.
As reported by the Director of the race organizing committee, Humberto Muñoz Vargas, the 42.195 kilometers (26.219 miles) marathon will run through the main tourist routes of the city with an additional 21,097 kilometers (13.1 miles) half-mile marathon and a recreational race if approx. 5 kilometers has been scheduled with the intention to attract maximum number of tourist participation being a part of great sports festival. Besides cherishing and bucking up the runners, the spectators will be able to enjoy a full-time festivity fueled up with drinks, foods and music on the go at the main venue.
The Puerto Vallarta Tourism Trust for Mexico vacation spots has highly appreciated the enthusiastic organizers behind this sporting activity with great words and regarded this initiative as one of the most vibrant decision to boost up the country’s economy and an overall, great impact on the destination’s annual calendar.
This had been for the first time in the history of Puerto Vallarta to host a sports events with such a high aptitude of exposure and magnitude. Organizers had arranged an event place that could entertain a grand gathering of up to 2,500 athletes from Mexico and around the world, including high-level runners who wanted to experience this challenge in the most all-inclusive Mexican beach destination.
SCHEDULES AND ROUTE
Marathon at Puerto Vallarta had been planned to organize in this way:
The First Puerto Vallarta Marathon and the Half Marathon was to be taken place at 6:30 am on Sunday, 15th of April, while the mini, 5-km recreational race was about to start at 8:30 am afterwards. The pre-decided time limit was six hours for the Marathon and three hours for the Half Marathon, respectively. At the end of the race, there were cash prizes waiting to be rewarded to the winners and runner-ups – first three of each category.
The start and finish lines were destined to close on Avenida Francisco Medina Ascencio, in front the Integral Port Administration facilities, where the Puerto Mágico (the new maritime terminal) has been built. From there it goes to the Agustín Flores sports stadium, turns around, and heads back along the boulevard to the intersection of Fluvial Vallarta.
The general director of the Marathon, Humberto Muñoz guaranteed at every possible step to offer a close coordination among the logistics in relation to the municipal, state and even federal authorities to temporary seal the roads along the route, as well as best ensured the safety of participants along with adequate arrangement of facilities like, hydration areas and port-a-potties along the race route as well as medical specialists and ambulances for special emergencies if required.
We cordially invite you to experience the liveliest & ever-thrilled Marathon so far within the Puerto Vallarta landscapes! Registrations are still open to apply for interested citizens to participate on the MaratonPV Facebook event page, website, or at Innovasport stores in Vallarta and throughout Mexico for passes for your friends and family to enjoy.
Puerto Vallarta Tourism Trust press release translated and edited by María Francesca for BanderasNews.com.
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