The third edition of Pinkathon, franchise running event organised with a view to encourage healthy lifestyle of women, set to be held on Saturday in Kathmandu and will have participation of more than 2000 runners.

“We have already received registration of 1,700 runners. Though the registrations at all centres have closed it is still open at Durbarmarg counter and will open until Friday. We are expecting more entries and it will close once it reaches 2500,” said Namraj Joshi, the managing director of the Leisure Port Nepal Pvt Ltd, the franchise holder in Nepal, on Tuesday.

Pinkathon was founded by Indian model, actor, film producer and fitness promoter Milind Soman. It is claimed to be India’s biggest women’s run and is currently held across eight cities in India. The event will start from Nepal Police headquarters and will feature three categories—21km, 10km and 5km races. Top three finishers in the half marathon will get Rs 51,000, Rs 31,000 and Rs 21,000. The podium finishers in the 10km event will get Rs 31,000, Rs 21,000 and Rs 11,000 and the winner of 5km will get Rs 11,000. Athlete breaking the national record will get Rs 1,000 per second from the time she breaks the record.

The participants will have zumba session with Soman and zumba team led by Keshav Thapa before the event kicks off. Niti Shah, the goodwill ambassador of the event and former miss Nepal international, said that the objective of the event was to empower women and motivate them to adopt healthy lifestyle. “It is important to remain healthy and we want to impart message to every women to do exercise which is very much important in the life,” she said.