Orange Running Festival is gearing up to be bigger and better than ever in 2019, and it has runners in Orange set in its sights to get there.
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Registrations opened on Monday for the festival, which has five and 10 kilometre events, as well as a half-marathon and marathon and a 2km children’s event the afternoon before.
Festival coordinator Richard Eggleston said he wanted to increase runners from about 1480 last year to as many as 1800 or 1900 people, which are numbers the festival has reached before.
“It would be good if local people could support the event as well,” he said.
“We do get a fair chunk of our entrants from out of town and it would be very nice to see more local people get involved.
“With things like Parkrun, we get over 200 to each one of those.”
Eggleston said under half of the registrations in 2018 were from locals and was hoping to get it closer to two-thirds.
“We want to make it a local event for local people and our entry fees are reasonable, early bird pricing is up until February 3,” he said.
There were sponsors for every event aside from the 2km kids event on the Friday.
Eggleston said the marathon will follow last year’s course, heading out towards Spring Hill, for the 42 kilometres.
This is his first year in charge and wanted to thank his committee for the hard work they’d put in for the festival.
The children’s event is on the afternoon of March 2, with the main events kicking off from 6.30am on March 3.
Head to https://www.orangerunningfestival.com.au/ for more.
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