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Corporate gear up for the 2010 edition for the JP Morgan Challenge

READY, SET: Runners take off from the start of last year’s JP Morgan Corporate Challenge.

Chronicle Reporter

Strip off your ties, slap on your running shorts and get ready to enter the seventh annual JP Morgan Corporate Challenge.
Thousands of corporate athletes, be they serious runners or not-so-serious walkers, from over 450 company teams will be returning to The Wanderers Club on March 4.
The 5.6km road race is open to teams of four or more full-time employees from companies and government organisations.

In honour of the 2010 Fifa World Cup, the organisers have increased the maximum entries to 12 010.

The winning teams from each of the races held around the globe, traditionally journey to New York City for the JP Morgan Corporate Challenge Championships, an event that has seen the South African men’s team walk away as winners four years in a row. In 2008 the contingent topped that by winning the men’s, women’s and mixed events, cementing their reputations as serious competitors.

Now they will get to show off their prowess on their home ground as, for the first time, the challenge championships will be moving away from its Big Apple home to South Africa’s own City of Gold. To incorporate the JP Morgan Championship race, both races will take place on the same day.

And its not just the athletes getting a kick out of this year’s race.

The chosen benefactor of the Joburg event will be Adopt a School, whose primary concern is the improvement of education infrastructure and skills development.

After the race, Jessie Clegg will entertain the crowds on the stage his father occupied two years ago.
Entries close on February 9 or when the 12 010 entry cut off is reached.

Details: www.jpmorganchasecc.com or 0860-460-906.
sc@caxton.co.za

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