ahmedabad early sunday morning a group of health enthusiasts gathered near vastrapur lake and started jogging for onlookers the 90odd people jogging at vastrapur was not an unusual sight but for the participants including businessmen foreign nationals and professionals the event was special as they had gathered for halfmarathon 911 run organised by a citybased group of avid runners ahmedabad distance runner the 165 km marathon began at 545 am for runners new on the circuit a shorter distance run of 85 km vastrapur lake to gurudwara to keshavbaug and back was held the group has been organizing marathons for a cause hundreds lost their lives in the 911 attack 10 years back and we wanted to condemn such barbaric acts through the run last month we organised a run on august 15 called freedom run and later in support of anna hazarea anticorruption campaign where joggers ran holding placards said lihas trivedi citybased businessman and a fitness instructor who has been participating in marathons across the world trivedi who even participated in the athens 2010 historic marathon added that many foreign nationals mostly professionals working with private companies in ahmedabad participated in the event all those who had gathered are health enthusiasts and enjoy running but when we do it for a cause the experience doubles up we started the club last year but have now decided to run for a cause every month such marathons keep us healthy and active and the participants also get a deep sense of satisfaction after running for a cause said citybased industrialist dharmesh kothari he will be going for the 42km kaveri marathon near bangalore on september 19