HISTORY OF PADILE RUNNING TEAM

The Padile Sport Group is an amateur sport association which encourages running both as a sport but also as a time of gathering and sharing.

Since 1992, when Padile Sport Group was founded after the winding-up of the then Gardonese, Mario Picenni, from Padile (in Gardone VT, Brescia), has been bringing together several free runners who joined Padile Sport Group, which at that time included not only running but also soccer and playing bocce. 

In 2014 Picenni, due to family reasons, decided to resign as a Chairman but he remained in the Board as a Director and handed over his role to one of the first runners of the group, Giuseppe Parth. All the back office is managed by Paola Berardi, who had the intuition of changing the name of the group in “Padile Running Team”, giving the group a brand-new image. The team colors have been updated to black and green and new sponsors have stepped in, apart from R.M.G. Raffineria Metalli Guizzi S.p.A. which has been with the group for a long time.

By organizing some running events every year, the Group is known in the surrounding areas and on Social media thanks to its promotion of Valtrompia. The Group is associated with Fidal and Uisp, a championship a lot of runners are taking part in more and more often.

Its name resounds also abroad, where the Group attends some running events, accompanying them with a cultural and social perspective.

Currently it has grown up to 50 registered members, 20% of which are fond of mountain trails, a versatile 10% and the remaining are mostly interested in road running.