Strides of fun

Fun, Fun, Fun, and more fun it was for the thousands who turned up for the Nation Fun Walk Sunday.
A massive crowd converged on Independence Square, eagerly anticipating the command go! And at exactly 6 a.m. the Fun Walkers were on their merry way to the tune of Sister Marshall’s Walk Holy. Travelling in an easterly direction onto River Road at the start of the 12-kilometre route, the throng made its way past the Ena Walters Roundabout, continuing onto Collymore Rock, through Wildey on to the ABC Highway.
The walkers then travelled past the Garfield Sobers Roundabout to the Errol Barrow Roundabout and on to Greame Hall. Then it was along St Lawrence Main Road, through Worthing, then Hastings, ending in Bay Street, opposite Government Headquarters.
The young and the not so young, the able and the not so able, school students, members of clubs and organisations, individuals taking on the image of masqueraders all joined in making this year’s Nation Fun Walk a success.
Loreen Sobers, 72, a member of the Barbados Masters and Seniors Athletics Club (BAMSAC), said she would be doing the Fun Walk for years to come. “It was good. I enjoyed it. I really wasn’t paying attention to anybody else, as I was trying to get here [the finish],” said a smiling Sobers.
First-timer Felicia Taylor, 14, who attends the Lodge School, entered as an individual. She said it was just like the name suggests – a fun walk.
Full story in Monday’s DAILY NATION