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No Finish Line 2011
2011-10-24 17:08
What: No Finish Line
Where: Port Hercule
When: 12-20 November, 24 hours a day
Entry fee: €12(€6) + €10 deposit for microchip. or all eight days for €100+€10
Reistration: +33 6 07 93 50 81
It's time to dust off your trainers once again for this year's No Finish Line,
the Monaco-based fun-run that raises money for charity. You don't even have to be the world's greatest athlete to join in - in fact if you want you can walk the course around
Port Hercule. But the important point is that for every kilometre
completed, €1 will be donated to the Children & Future charity.
No Finish Line was devised by the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Monaco
in 1999. Its principle is simple - grab a T-shirt, and a microchip to
attach to your shoe, and then run, jog or walk as often and whenever you
want over the course of the eight days.
Records to beat!
Individual Men's 24h: 248.39km (Thomas Maguire 2009)
Individual Women's 24h: 222.201 km Monica Casiraghi 2007)
Individual Women's total: 901.7km (Christine David 2009)
Individual totals: 922.4km Trond Sjavik 2009)
Team total: 6932 km (Coco Team 2006)
As well as a donation to the Cardio-Thoracic
Center of Monaco for children with heart defects, this year's money
will once again go towards work in developing countries, including funding for a sterile operating theatre
at the Sheik Zayed hospital in Nouakchott in Mauritania; and support
for the House of Life project for young people affected by AIDS (in
conjunction with AIDS Fight Monaco, whose president is HSH Princess
Stephanie).
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This year No Finish Line - which takes place under the patronage of
Princess Stephanie - celebrates its 12th anniversary. In 1999, 700
participants covered 9000 km and raised €15,000. Last year the number
of walkers, joggers and runners had increased sixfold, and the amount of
money raised was an amazing €115,298 which went to help children in
need around the world. To date, projects supported by the charity
include:
- installation of computer equipment in the paediatric unit of the
University Hospital Centre at L’Archet II in Nice for children who are
hospitalised 'long-term'
- reinstatement of the rural life and craftsmanship centre in Guiberoua, Ivory Coast
- renovation of the 'Virgen de Guadalupe' dispensary in Bale, Panama
- purchase of state-of-the-art monitoring equipment for the neonatal unit of the University Hospital Centre at L’Archet II in Nice
- saving young children with cardiac malformations by arranging for them to have operations at Monaco's Cardio-Thoracic Centre