J.P. Morgan City Jogging
5 July | The Coque - Kirchberg | Sports Event
On the first Sunday of July every year, the lithe and athletic get themselves, and if they have them, their lithe and athletic children down to the Kirchberg, for what has become something of a fixture in the Luxembourg sporting/cultural calendar. City Jogging has been in existence for 26 years now, organised by the Fédération Luxembourgeoise de l’Athlétisme, and for the past number of years sponsored chiefly by finance giants J. P. Morgan.
No timings of participants are kept and the main objective of the day is to have fun, with the emphasis on getting the whole family involved. The distances are short, 1, 6 or 10 km, and the course starts at the Coque in Kirchberg before taking in Clausen, Petrusse, Place d’Armes, Grand rue, Pont Grand Duchesse Charlotte, and returning again to the Coque. Sounds like a good route for a pub crawl if you ask me, especially as no-one’s keeping track of the time. This year there is expected to be in the region of 4000 participants and you can still sign up on the day should you suddenly come over all ‘Chariots of Fire’ on Sunday morning.
Of course it’s not all about your jogger on Sunday.
If your idea of exercise is bringing the dog, preferably a not too energetic one, out for a walk in the woods of an afternoon, then you may have come across the vaguely threatening spectacle of groups of people clutching sticks and walking a little too quickly towards you in a rather rigid manner. As it was explained to me later, these were not as I had imagined, grouse beaters, sent out to scare up some small unfortunate birds, but athletes, indulging in the far more healthy and harmless pursuit of Nordic walking. Well, the Nordic walkers have come out of the woods and will be there in their hundreds on Sunday for their own event which will start at more or less the same time as the runners, between 10h and 11h.
Lastly, with all the grown-ups out of the way and nursing their aching limbs, the kids get their chance with a 1k dash around the Kirchberg under the supervision of monitors.
After all that exercise it’s time for some serious rehydration, so get yourself down to the Knudler, where even the chronically decrepit should make it in time for Simple Minds.
For complete details on registration, start times, parking, creche, nursery, changing room and shower facilities plus a whole lot more check out the F.L.A website at www.fla.lu
Starts 10h. FREE to spectate
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