Athletes limber up for running festival

Thu, 17 Apr 2014

250 visiting athletes are headed to the Island for the Easter Festival of Running.

Runners are coming from Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds and Cambridge universities – there’s also been an increase in local competitors.

The festival begins on Good Friday, with the 10-kilometre-road race, moves on to a Peel hill race and concludes with 5k races on Sunday.

Organiser David Griffiths says he’ll be cheering for the Manx contingent: