Six thousand runners are slated to participate in the JCo Run 2024 on Nov. 10 at the Mall of Asia concert ground in Pasay City.

Race organizer Rio Dela Cruz said they had already closed the registeration after it reached the maximum number of participants in just 15 minutes after the announcement last Monday, Oct. 21.

The reace is part of the 12th anniversary celebration of cafe and donut company JCo Philippines.

Event categories on tap include 3 kilometers, 5K and 12K.

“We decided to put up the 12 km as the main event since we’re celebrating our 12th year of existence in the Philippines. We choose fun runs as one of our main activities because we believe that health is wealth,” said Jericho Eva, JCo Assistant Marketing during the event launch on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at JCo store in Glorietta 2 in Makati City.

Joining them in the program are showbiz couple Juancho and Joyce Pring-Trivino, who registered for the 12K event.

“We find running as stress reliever. Juancho is the one regularly jog, talagang pinipilit niya akong samahan siya kaya kahit ayaw ko napapasama na ako which later I find it good sa aking health.” said Joyce.

Juancho expressed his gratitude to JCo Philippines for putting up a program that is beneficial not just for regular runners but also to simple health buffs as it gives a new avenue for them to sustain their goal to be healthy and competitive.

Eva said with 6,000 participants the company expects a huge success similar to the activity done on Indonesia – JCo’s headquarters – last month.

“Although the number of participants is not as huge compared to the Indonesia event, I think yung success sa organization eh kaya nating i-match o baka mahigitan,” Eva added.