50-MILE RACE
Run Through City
This year’s New Brighton 50-mile race is to be run through the suburbs of Christchurch and is expected to provide a sporting event of considerable interest.
Yesterday the Canterbury Road Runners’ Association, some of whom had run in the Canterbury marathon on Saturday, were up at 6 a.m. surveying and measuring the suburban circuit for the race. The race will start at New Brighton this year instead of at Hawarden as in previous years. The runners will go through Burwood. Shirley, Papanui, Harewood, Yaldhurst, Riccarton, Hornby, Prebbleton, Halswell, Spreydon, Beckenham, St Martins. Opawa, Heathcote, Linwood, Bromley, and back to New Brighton. The race, the longest in New Zealand, is expected to attract leading distance runners from other parts of New Zealand and possibly some from overseas.
“Changing the race to the suburbs should be the making of the race,” said Mr S. Jelley, a spokesman for the organising committee of the Canterbury Road Runners’ Association, last evening. He said a number of entries had already been received.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30978, 7 February 1966, Page 14
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17250-MILE RACE Press, Volume CV, Issue 30978, 7 February 1966, Page 14
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