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federated or not. Trials for minor categories were also held jointly, aimed at pro- moting athletics in the municipality in the Meta area.
In parallel, a race called ‘free modality’ by the organizers was also held, in which the participants did not compete to do a great time, but to join a charitable cause of notable importance. This second modality took on special importance since the numbers were exhausted in the competitive modality, and also allowed nobody to be left without collaborating with the initiative in favor of CIEN. In fact, the organ- ization has also enabled a Row 0, where everyone who wanted could leave their contribution, even if they did not attend the race in person.
Likewise, the support of well-known personalities through social networks has been essential to obtain this excellent response from athletes in terms of par- ticipation. And it is that there have been many who have shared in their profiles videos of support to the race, as in the case of, among others, the national record holder of the marathon Julio Rey, the television chef Pepe Rodríguez, the presenter Irma Soriano or Ana del Alto, the first patient diagnosed with genetic Alzheimer’s in Spain who, in addition to carrying out a great dissemination campaign with her husband, exhibited her pictorial work in the Esquivias Cervantes House Museum. This remarkable endorsement for a popular race that continues to demonstrate how, with the little push of many, very great things can be accomplished.