Valencia Marathon awaits you on December 1st

We know you were waiting for this email. Thank you for having been so patient with us. As you well know, these have been days of great pain, fear, uncertainty and anxiety for the city of Valencia and its entire province.

We would have loved for you to have heard from us sooner. But it has been impossible. We were doing everything in our power to help those who needed it most at that time. We know that, as a good athlete, you will perfectly understand the situation.

Luckily, as always, after every storm comes the sunrise. That’s why we want to share with you that on December 1st, Valencia awaits you to celebrate a marathon that will be much more than a race.

It will be a hug to this wounded city and a promise of recovery, a moment in which sport becomes hope and help for those who need it most.

This year, the record we want to beat is that of solidarity, the record of a marathon that will remind each one of us of the power of being together. The immense strength of the collective as a society, and of sport, as a vehicle for reconstruction and recovery.

We want that Valencia Marathon, your race, be a symbol of support for every family that has suffered, for every street and every corner of Valencia that is in the process of reconstruction.

Celebrating the Valencia Marathon is our way of saying that together, as a society, we can overcome any obstacle. We know that running means health, and it also means hope. We understand that, for some of you, it may not be the right time, and we deeply respect those feelings.

We want the Valencia Marathon Trinidad Alfonso Zurich to be a powerful aid to help those who have suffered the most from the impact of DANA

For this reason, we want to tell you that the Valencia Marathon will have 3 fundraising lines to help rebuild sports facilities and sports schools in the affected areas:

• One related to our sponsors
• Another relating to the organisers themselves, using their own resources, donating 3 euros for each runner who reaches the finish line on 1 December.
• And finally, one related to you, the runners, or anyone who wants to join in, by donating to a number zero race bib on the donation platform set up for this purpose.

All the proceeds from the sponsors, the organisation’s own funds and the runners will be donated in a transparent manner to one or more projects for the reconstruction of the affected areas. We will announce the exact destination in a transparent and public manner in the near future.

The marathon on 1 December will be a marathon that goes far beyond its purely sporting nature. The only record we want to beat this year is the one related to our solidarity with our community.

Thank you for making it possible, through your participation, for the Valencia Marathon to do its bit to help Valencia regain its social, economic and sporting vitality. And thank you for being there in the good times and the bad.

See you on 1 December. And thank you for thinking so much about our land.