Last Sunday’s Kilorun Bangkok 2019 – the first-ever running festival centred on “food, fun, friends and family” – draw more than 1,500 participants signing up for the kilometre (KM) and kilogram (KG) categories.

Despite the chilly 18-degrees Celsius temperatures, some 2,000 Thais and foreigners willingly got out of bed in Mae Sot to join the “Run for Education without Frontiers” marathon and raise funds for the education of children living on the border of Tak province.