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The Entoto Park Run is a monthly 5km & 7km run taking place in the beautiful setting of the Entoto Natural Park.
The run starts at 8:00 am for the 7 km runners and 8:15 am for 5km runners on the first Saturday of every month on accurately measured traffic-free roads.
To be eligible to take part and have your result recorded, you must enter through the event entry page. Entry is free of charge and limited to 700 places each month. Places are given on a first-come, first-served basis. Great Ethiopian Run members get priority registration – for more details click here.
Registration opens at 6.00 am on the last Monday of every month.
Entoto Natural Park is situated 20km from the centre of Addis.
You should park your car at the Sululta Gate on the road leading from the Gulele Botanical Garden/Sululta Checkpoint to Entoto Mariam Church.
From the gate, it is a 15-minute walk to the start and finish area near the Kuriftu Restaurant.
Once you arrive at Entoto Park, you have to show your QR code to collect your timing chip which will be worn on your shoelaces. At the start of the race, the timing mats will record your start time and when you cross the finish line, the time it takes you to run the 5km will be recorded.
Results will be calculated and posted on the website on the same afternoon.
You can also join our running club on the Strava app by clicking HERE
To find your results please click HERE
The course is on smooth asphalt traffic-free roads with some steep uphill and downhill sections.
The start and finish of the run are outside the Kuriftu Restaurant, about 1.5km from the Sululta Gate entrance to the park.
The first kilometre of the route is uphill.
Please click on the course map to see the course route.
Please click on the course map to see the course route.
After registering you will receive an email and QR code confirming your registration in the run. You must bring your QR code with you to the run. This allows you to take part in the run and to be given a finishing time. No QR code means no run and no finishing result.
There are no prizes for winners.
You can find photos of previous runs on our Telegram, Facebook and Instagram pages.
You can email us at entotoparkrun@ethiopianrun.org if you have any other questions.
Go Green 2022-23 Plan
ACTION 1: WE WILL MINIMISE CARBON EMISSIONS
We are promoting “3km of walking per day” to get us all to think more about walking in place of making short car journeys.
We encourage participants living in close proximity (3km radius) to race venue to walk to and back from race venue on race day.
We are also encouraging our participants to use public transport and shared car transport for arriving at and returning from the race.
We will deploy electric cars to lead the elite race.
ACTION 2: WE WILL RECYCLE WHEREVER POSSIBLE
As in the past year’s race, we have used recyclable (eco-friendly) materials in the production of our race t-shirts & goody bags. We have continued our partnership with PETCO to collect and recycle all plastic bottles and other rubbish consumed and produced on race day.
ACTION 3: WE WILL ENCOURAGE DISPOSAL OF RUBBISH
Rubbish bins will be placed along the race course every 250m.
We’ll also put more portable toilets on race course
ACTION 4: WE WILL USE LESS PLASTIC
This year we are using a lighter water bottle for participants to make it easier for recycling. Our goody bag is also made of a non-plastic material which can be reused for shopping by participants.
ACTION 5: WE WILL USE LESS PAPER
We no longer use paper for registering participants. All registration has been done electronically.
Participants also receive their race magazine electronically in place of printed magazines.
We use more e-posters, e-fliers, e-invites
Re-use scrap papers for internal communication purposes
We put a disclaimer: “think about the environment before you print this email” on all our electronic communications as a reminder to our stakeholders.
ACTION 6: WE WILL WORK TO CREATE AWARENESS ABOUT ENVIRONMENT
Putting Go Green logo on every promotional materials
Scheduled (weekly/monthly) posts on social media about the environment and GER’s Go Green 5 strands
Run social media campaigns to Teach/Train/Encourage people not to throw rubbish in their day to day activities
We invite all our participants and stakeholders to join us in this campaign and to contribute positively to the sustainability of our environment.
