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Countdown to marathon

The councillors are ready to rumble, as the day of the inaugural Air New Zealand Hawke’s Bay Marathon nears.

Hastings District councillors George Lyons, Tania Kerr, Sandra Hazlehurst and Cynthia Bowers will join the almost 4950 entrants who will walk and run all or part of the 42 kilometres this Saturday (May 14).

Of those entrants, just over 1100 are from Hawke’s Bay, more than 3500-plus are from across the rest of New Zealand and 240 are heading to the Bay from abroad, principally Australia, China and Hong Kong.

It is the perfect time to show off Hawke’s Bay to a lot of visitors who will likely not have been to the area before, says Mrs Bowers.

“Many of our runners will bring a friend for support, so potentially we have about 8000 people who will be enjoying our scenery and our hospitality, and hopefully our gorgeous weather.”

The average age of the entrants is 41 (the oldest 80 and the youngest five); the gender split is 65 per cent female to 35 per cent male; 940 people are registered for the full marathon, 2520 have signed for the half, 1400 have registered for the 10kms, and 90 for the children’s 3k run.

 

4 October 2017

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