Keen local Park Runners are looking forward to the regular Saturday morning running fixture resuming at Castlemaine’s Botanical Gardens after many month’s of Covid-enforced absence.
The run is a national and international with many park Runs taking place across the globe, and was been hard-hit by restrictions on large public gatherings in the wake of Covid.
But now Park Runs are looking to resume across multiple locations next Saturday January 16 and the Castlemaine run is included.
News of the popular 5km event’s anticipated return has triggered excitement among its legion of regular local runners including one of the local run directors, runner Di Cox.
Di said the international event is scheduled to resume 8am Saturday January 16 unless the pandemic takes a significant, unexpected twist for the worse.
“I’m confident,” she said.
“We’re hoping for the usual 50 to 70 people and I think it’s really one of the hallmarks of community recreation going back to normal.” Read more in today’s Castlemaine Mail…