GLASGOW City Council, organisers of the Great Scottish Run which is to have live TV coverage for the first time in more than a decade, hope that the junior event, announced yesterday, will break all records, writes Doug Gillon.
The Bank of Scotland Junior Great Scottish Run, on Sunday August 23, will be over 3000 metres (almost two miles), for children aged 9 to 11, and will be staged round Glasgow Green.
It will start earlier than previous years, at noon, prior to the senior event, full details of which are to be announced by the city on Monday.
The junior fun run attracted more than 2300 runners last year, but with the possibility of TV coverage on the back of the main event, which is to have a one-hour live programme, organisers are confident that the field will top 3000.
Alison Douglas, presenter of the children's programme Skoosh, comedian Eddie Devine, and the bank's Super Squirrel, mascot of Scotland's Comonwealth Games team, were at Scotstoun track yesterday where some of the 1700 youngsters taking part in the Youth Games helped the race launch.
An entry form for the junior run appears below. Forms for the senior race can be had via the event hotline: 0141 287 5576.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article