ALERT is a volunteer-driven NGO, that empowers a common man in case of an emergency to ensure ‘Right to Life’ is a reality in India!

Alert has trained over 180000+ people during the last 16+ years of its services to the community in an effort towards the goal set for ALERT by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam – “To train one in every family” in emergency care. Over 90% of Alerts training is offered to the general public at free and highly subsidised cost.

• Create Aware citizens who can confidently handle emergencies
• Skilled First Responder network at service on demand
• Laws & systems that encourage First responders

Alert has institutionalized a Good Samaritan award called the Alert Being Award to recognize individuals and organizations going beyond the call of duty as A Real Life Hero – A Good Samaritan – An ALERT Being. Since 2017, Alert has awarded and recognized over 8 organizations and 61 good Samaritans

Ms. Kala Balasundaram, Founder Trustee & President
Mr. Rajesh Trivedi, Managing Trustee
Know more about other trustees & board members here – https://alert.ngo/board-of-trustees-and-advisors/

VoICE stands for Volunteer In Case of Emergency. ALERT VoICE is the first of its kind project in India that bridges the gap between a medical emergency and the arrival of professional help with voluntary First Response. Driven by the community and based on mobile technology, it is a unique opportunity for a common man to participate in saving lives.

The ALERT VoICE Ambassadors are not only trained first-responders (trained in first-aid & CPR procedures) but also have a voice in their community and their circle of influence. They bring in their charisma & leadership skills and act as an ambassador to create messages to inspire people, manage by actively organizing & executing events, empower by becoming messengers/trainers to build awareness within their connected community and influence by being the ambassador of the cause, touch more lives & save more lives.

Alertathon is an annual awareness and fundraiser event with 5k, 10k and a Chain of Survival Team Relay running, organised by ALERT.NGO based in Chennai, INDIA. Every year Alertathon is supported by thousands of endurance runners, global VoICE Ambassadors & volunteers, organisations as sponsors & partners, educational institutions and volunteers.

Started first in 2016 Alert has organized Alertathon in Chennai & Bangalore in its 5 editions so far.

The 2020 & 2021 editions were held in a virtual format and attracted over 6000 participants worldwide.

ALERTATHON 2022 will be conducted in a hybrid, combining the best of the virtual and the on-ground event in Chennai and Coimbatore, and the participants can walk, run or ride and show their support.

The eighth edition of ALERTATHON 2022 will also be the third Global Virtual Endurance event with a mission to “Save Lives” and will be conducted between 8-Oct-2022, Saturday to 16-Oct-2022, Sunday.

The ALERTATHON physical events with running and cycling categories will be held in Chennai on 9-Oct-2022, Sunday, and for the first time in Coimbatore (a.k.a Kovai) on 16-Oct-2022, Sunday. The runners, walkers and riders

Alertathon Chennai & Kovai – physical events

10k: 15 years

5k: 12 years

2.5k x 4 Chain of survival team Relay: 10 years

25K/50K cycling: 16 years – must be accompanied by an adult since the riding will happen on public roads.

Global Virtual Endurance Event to save lives: 7 years

Please do not register your children if they do not comply with the age requirements. You will not be able to participate in the cycling event. You will receive your participation medal & breakfast.

The HDOR system (our virtual platform) tracks your walk | run | ride activity data from applications like Strava, Garmin Connect, Runkeeper, Endomondo, etc., or shared a link to your finish timing at any organised marathon race. Please visit HDOR.com to learn more.

All the participants will receive a certificate from us indicating your support. In addition the cumulative mileage (only if they are finally logged in the HDOR platform) of your walking/running and riding data will be mentioned.

Please visit our EVENT RULES page for more information

The medals and T-Shirts delivery option is available only for those living in India. We will start shipping your T-Shirt / Medal packages from 1-Nov-2022 onwards. Shipping time may be between 2-7 days.

Event venue

Chennai: MGR Janaki College (Tentative & may subject to change depending on the police approvals)

Coimbatore: CODISSIA campus

Reporting time: 5.00 am onwards

Start time: 5.30 am (tentative, more details will be published one week before event day)

Alertathon CHENNAI schedule

Alertathon COIMBATORE/KOVAI schedule

For group registration, please visit www.alertathon.com, scroll to the bottom of the page, and click the Chennai or Coimbatore location-specific button.

The button link will take you to Townscript (our registration platform), where you fill and submit a Group Registration Request Form providing us with the details of your company or group and the number of participants in each running or cycling category.

Once we receive your group/company details, we will arrange a call back along with the registration payment details.

?ALERTATHON Chennai : 30-Sep-2022, however, from 1-Oct, you can continue to register till 8-Oct with an option to receive your finisher medal and T-Shirt through courier before 5-Nov

ALERTATHON Kovai: 8-Oct-2022; however, from 9-Oct, you can continue to register till 15-Oct with an option to receive your finisher medal and T-Shirt through courier before 5-Nov

Manually add a run

Alertathon HDOR dashboard – accepted walk | run | ride data

• Minimum GPS recorded distance that will be automatically imported = 1 km (run/walk/ride)
• Max distance GPS recorded that will be imported = 200 km
• NO MANUALLY created entries in the running tracking applications will be imported by HDOR dashboard
• Minimum walk | run | ride distance per day that can be reported directly on HDOR system MANUALLY, without GPS data/records to support = 5 km
• Read the HDOR system New Users page –> https://hdor.com/new-users/ to learn more about the system
• Write to alertathon@alert.ngo if you have more questions.

Leaderboard & Reports

Once you have registered for the event, you will be able to download the official HDOR app (iOS | Android) and view your event stats for your submitted activities.

Due to the nature of the event, we have decided to remove the concept of the leaderboard. You will be able to see your performance on the dashboard. Follow this link to view the ALERTATHON reports.

Use Your Favorite Apps

Being a virtual event, participants need to submit their activity details online using any of the multiple apps we support. See the supported apps list here.

You can record and submit your activity using Strava, Endomondo, MapMyRun, Runkeeper, Garmin Connect, TomTom Sports, Fitbit, or Apple Watch, in fact, any other mobile app which supports sharing your activity data as a public GPS activity link.

We also support automatic data import from Strava. If you use any other mobile app or device which can export app data to your Strava account, manual data submit is not required.

Participants need to login to the HDOR website using your login credentials.

If you are an existing HDOR participant you don’t need to create another account. When you register for ALERTATHON your HDOR profile will be automatically linked to the event.

Data submission: You can submit your activity data directly on our website or HDOR app after logging in to your account with your credentials. You will need to submit your activity distance, time as well as an activity link.

Activity Link: Activity link is a URL or website link which has details of your recorded run activity, including date, time, distance, splits, pace, etc (see this for details). You can find and share or copy activity links from your run or ride mobile app or from the website for the app or GPS watch. You should ensure that all your activity links are public so that other event participants and event admin can view your activity data.

Mobile apps to use: For any data submission participants must run using a supported GPS running app (refer to supported apps article for details), or a GPS watch. Not all apps provide a public activity link and hence may not be used if that is the case.

Automatic activity data import: We support the automatic import of your mobile app data if you have connected your HDOR account with your Strava account from the Connected Apps section on the website. If you do not use the Strava app, many apps, GPS watches and websites allow exporting recorded activity to Strava, something you can explore and consider if you do not want to manually submit each activity data.

Multiple activities in a day: Are allowed, and each has to be submitted separately.

Combining GPS activities using tools: All submitted runs must be a recorded single GPS activity. Multiple activities are not allowed to be combined into one activity using online tools and then submitted.

Treadmill runs: Treadmill runs recorded using GPS watches or apps in indoor mode and for which you have a public activity link which shows distance, time, pace, and splits will be acceptable for submission.

Participants are free to walk, run or ride multiple times in a day, and submit multiple activity entries.

Your activity will be available on the Alertathon HDOR website within an hour of your activity data submission or post availability in your Strava account if you have connected your HDOR account to Strava.

If your run data is not available in your account within one hour, please submit the activity link and data manually via app or website.

The HDOR system (our virtual platform) tracks your walk | run | ride activity data from applications like Strava, Garmin Connect, Runkeeper, Endomondo, etc., or shared a link to your finish timing at any organised marathon race. Please visit HDOR.com to learn more.

All the participants will receive a certificate from us indicating your support. In addition the cumulative mileage (only if they are finally logged in the HDOR platform) of your walking/running and riding data will be mentioned.

Event organizers can reject any entry which has suspect GPS data (straight line outside normal run route, unrealistic high pace like sub 3 min/km pace at any time during the run, etc)

We will not disqualify anyone supporting and taking part in the Alertathon Virtual Endurance Event.

We request you not to take any external help in running the distance (like using a cycle or any other vehicle for a run), using a powered vehicle for rides, or any external aid, or cheated in any way. This certainly kills the spirit of sportsmanship and, defeats the purpose of Alertathon.

When submitting activity data for the event manually on our website or via the mobile app, you must submit the elapsed time data for your run. Moving time will not be considered.

When we import data from other apps like Strava, we similarly consider elapsed time for participants to finish time.

https://hdor.com/help-and-support/

Alertathon HDOR dashboard – accepted walk | run | ride data

• Minimum GPS recorded distance that will be automatically imported = 1 km (run/walk/ride)
• Max distance GPS recorded that will be imported = 200 km
• NO MANUALLY created entries in the running tracking applications will be imported by HDOR dashboard
• Minimum walk | run | ride distance per day that can be reported directly on HDOR system MANUALLY, without GPS data/records to support = 5 km
• Read the HDOR system New Users page –> https://hdor.com/new-users/ to learn more about the system
• Write to alertathon@alert.ngo if you have more questions.

Data submission: You can submit your activity data directly on our website or HDOR app after logging in to your account with your credentials. You will need to submit your activity distance, time as well as an activity link.

Activity Link: Activity link is a URL or website link which has details of your recorded run activity, including date, time, distance, splits, pace, etc (see this for details). You can find and share or copy activity links from your run or ride mobile app or from the website for the app or GPS watch. You should ensure that all your activity links are public so that other event participants and event admin can view your activity data.

Mobile apps to use: For any data submission participants must run using a supported GPS running app (refer to supported apps article for details), or a GPS watch. Not all apps provide a public activity link and hence may not be used if that is the case.

Automatic activity data import: We support the automatic import of your mobile app data if you have connected your HDOR account with your Strava account from the Connected Apps section on the website. If you do not use the Strava app, many apps, GPS watches and websites allow exporting recorded activity to Strava, something you can explore and consider if you do not want to manually submit each activity data.

Multiple activities in a day: Are allowed, and each has to be submitted separately.

Combining GPS activities using tools: All submitted runs must be a recorded single GPS activity. Multiple activities are not allowed to be combined into one activity using online tools and then submitted.

Treadmill runs: Treadmill runs recorded using GPS watches or apps in indoor mode and for which you have a public activity link which shows distance, time, pace, and splits will be acceptable for submission.

Your activity will be available on the Alertathon HDOR website within an hour of your activity data submission or post availability in your Strava account if you have connected your HDOR account to Strava.

If your run data is not available in your account within one hour, please submit the activity link and data manually via app or website.

As a participant you can run, walk or ride, any number of times and any distance, any time of the day.

As a participant you can run, walk or ride, any number of times and any distance, any time of the day.

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Please follow this link to learn more about the HDOR supported apps. https://hdor.com/supported-apps/