Half marathon option for City to Surf

A half marathon option has been reinstated to the popular annual City to Surf Fun Run/Walk in 2017.

A half marathon course has been added to Tauranga's City to Surf Fun Run/Walk this year.

Event director Murray Fleming says the City to Surf Half Marathon course was dropped several years ago but, due to popular demand, has been reinstated for the 2017 event on November 5 and has already attracted about 1000 entrants, taking the total number of people entered into the event up to around 2000.

The half marathon course will start from the Tauranga Yacht and Power Boat Club in Sulphur Point at 9am and head around the Daisy Hardwick boardwalk and estuary before crossing the harbour bridge.

It then heads down Totara Street, through Coronation Park, along Pilot Bay, around the base track of Mauao and finishes on the main beach outside the Mount Maunganui Surf Club.

Other options include the City to Surf 11km run/walk, which follows the same course minus the Daisy Hardwick leg from 10am, and the Surf to Surf 5km run/walk, which starts outside the surf club at 10am and heads along the beach towards Leisure Island, back up the beach via the boardwalk and around the base track of Mauao before finishing at the surf club.

The event is suitable for runners and walkers of all levels and entry fees include a goody bag and a finisher's medal. A prize-giving for all events will be held outside the surf club at 1.15pm.

Murray says the range of distances means the event is suitable for all the family.

'It's really cool, and for the last leg of the event you're actually on the beach, getting sand in your shoes, so you really are experiencing city to surf,” he says.

The event is not just popular with locals. Contestants this year are coming from as far afield as Kerikeri in the Far North and from the South Island.

The City to Surf Fun Run/Walk is on Sunday, November 5. For more information and to enter visit: www.citytosurf2017.eventdesq.com

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