Still In The Haornas Atmosphere, Dash Holds Sports Festival With The Theme Urban Sports

Participants who took part in the relay race at the Dash Festival at the Gelora Bung Karno Intermediate Stadium, Jakarta, Saturday (16/9/2023). (Doc. ANTARA/Arnidhya Nur Zhafira)

JAKARTA - In the atmosphere of the commemoration of National Sports Day (Haornas) which falls in early September, Dash Sports held a sports festival in the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium area, Jakarta, Saturday, September 16. The activity, which is also a form of the third year celebration of Dash Sports, carries the theme and spirit of "Urban Sports".

CEO of Dash Sports Alit Aryaguna said that his party took the theme "Urban Sports" to respond to the high enthusiasm of the people of Jakarta, especially the running or sports communities. At least, there are 500 participants who participated in this event.

"The running competition remains the favorite because it is the core of Dash Sports. In addition, the contested number is also different from the competition number, which is generally contested, because only in the Dash Fest, participants can feel the sensation of racing on the track (track) like athletes competing," Alit explained.

Alit said the pandemic brought many changes in society. The level of public awareness for health is getting higher.

One of the activities to support health is sports, especially in big cities.

"Urban sports is an option because it brings a different color to the world of sports. Sports does not always have to be done in sports facilities, but can be done anywhere and can be done with any tools," said Alit, as confiscated from Antara.

"This makes sports attractive to anyone and non-letts can also try out sports that were previously only possible for an athlete," he continued.

He added that this event presented several sports activities that were more exciting than Dash Fest Vol. 2.

"We present exciting and quality sports activities such as the Dash Fest Vol. These 2 are for sports activists," said Alit.

In Dash Fest Vol. These 3 sports activities were held, including the One Mile Individual running number with a distance of 1,600 meters and the Mixed Relay with a distance of 100 meters x 4, Mat Pilates for Runners, Urban Work Out lead by Coach Nano, and Boot Camp by Bodyfit.

Then there is Thalassemia Movement which is one of the exhibition events at the Dash Festival this time. In this activity, Thalassemia sufferers will voice an awareness campaign by jogging, running 400 meters together on the track of the Madya Stadium. This is part of an effort to raise awareness regarding Thalassemia's illness to the public.