Professional athletes and popular runners will gather this weekend in Madrid to participate in EDP n's Half Marathon. This run, with has an ideal route to get good marks (1:11:17 achieved by Tejitu Daba in 2016), is held on Sunday 29 October at 8:30 a.m. In addition, there will be a second edition of the 3 kilometer "Stop Female Genital Mutilation".

In total, there will be 2,500 women of 40 nationalities starting the race, enjoying a tour that runs through some of the most emblematic streets of the capital, from the Paseo del Prado to Matadero, passing through Cibeles, the Puerta de Alcalá or the Gran Via. The EDP id Women's Half Marathon is part of the official calendar of the IAAF and RFEA.

One of the novelties of this second edition will be the possibility of completing the distance in teams of relays formed by two runners. The relief zone will be placed in the surroundings of the crossing of the Paseo de la Castellana with the Paseo de Raimundo Fernández Villaverde.

The EDP Stop FGM race , which has the collaboration of the NGO Mundo Cooperante, will start off at 08:25 a.m. Start and finish will be in the Paseo del Prado. The maximum time to complete the 3 km test is 45 minutes and participants may be ten years old or older. A new finishing area has been designed, which will be located in the multipurpose esplanade of Madrid Rio, near the Municipal Board of Arganzuela (Clock Tower - Torre del Reloj).

One of the main objectives of the EDP id Women's Half Marathon is to massively incorporate women into long-distance races and encourage healthy and sporting habits among adult women. On this subject, Javier Sáenz de Jubera, corporate and commercial general director of EDP ña, stressed that "when I go out to run outside Spain, I see how the number of women is higher than that of men, and also much younger than here . For EDP, this is a way to significantly support women's sport. The goal is to reach the same levels of female participation as in the United States, where the percentage is close to 50%. " He also said he expects his company to "continue to support this cause for many years."

The EDP n's Half Marathon in Madrid is organized by Sport Life with Komodo Comunicación, in collaboration with the Madrid City Council and will be included in the International Calendar of Real Federación Española de Atletismo (the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation). Participants can choose the solidarity project which they want to support. The organization kicks off donations with 5,000 euros that are divided among the five chosen causes: Fundación Cris contra el cáncer, Médicos sin Fronteras, Banco de Alimentos, Mundo Cooperante y Clara Campoamor. The Food Bank (Banco de Alimentos) organizes a campaign of food collection within the Feria de la Corredora of EDP n's Half Marathon.