You’re invited to join the Guide Runner Training Program co-organized by the Office of Student Affairs SEN Service and Blind Sports Hong Kong.
As long as you are interested in learning guide running skills and willing to learn alongside athletes with visual impairment, you are welcome to sign up and become our guide runners!.
In the training program, participants will be paired up with athletes with visual impairment and will undergo guide running practices before joining the ‘Happy Run’ together, which is a 5-km run organized by the CUHK New Asia College.
Details are as below:
The training program includes:
1. Guide Running Practices (4 sessions): 4, 11, 18, 25 Oct 2023 (19:00-21:00 / Admiralty)
2. Happy Run (5 km): 4 Nov 2023 (09:00-13:00 / CUHK)
Trainer: Blind Sports Hong Kong
Medium of Instruction: Cantonese
Fee: Free ($100 deposit*; full refund upon completion of the training program)
Bonus: Participants will be rewarded with P.E. participation marks (4 marks) upon the completion of all running practices and another 4 marks upon completion of Happy Run.
Registration: Register online by 20 Sept 2023
*Quotas will be filled on first-paid (deposit), first-served basis, you are encouraged to pay as soon as possible.
All CUHK students are welcome to register. Students registered with SEN Service and accompanying CUHK students (up to two students, if any) are eligible for priority registration; every student is required to complete and submit the registration form.
!! Important Notes!!
Please reserve your schedule to attend all activities, in order to be eligible to take part in the training program.
Participants should have appropriate sportswear for the practices.
Practices will take place in public areas; participants are encouraged to bring along any belongings as minimal as possible.
Participants who complete the training program can register with Blind Sports Hong Kong as a qualified guide runner.
For enquiries, please feel free to reach us at 3943 5441 or sens@cuhk.edu.hk
