LIVE: Great South Run weekend underway as junior runners cross the finish line
Follow all this weekend’s action with The News’ live coverage.
This year’s Great South Run weekend is officially underway.
This weekend sees the return of the AJ Bell Great South Run - known as the world’s greatest 10-mile event - to Portsmouth and Southsea.
Great Run says: “Since the very first event in 1990, a special relationship has developed between the people of Portsmouth and the Great South Run, which is even more prevalent this year.
“Over the last three decades, the Great South Run has built an local legacy with countless incredible moments and achievements, tens of millions of pounds raised for charity, and British and European records broken along the route.
“At what will be the biggest Great South Run weekend celebration of running, over 26,000 runners of all ages will take part, cheered on as always by the unbeatable Pompey supporters who always line the course in their thousands.”
Proceedings have commenced this morning with the 5k run, which started at 9am. This will be followed by the Junior and Mini Great South Run, just before 10.30am - with a mascot race starting at 11.50am.
The main event is tomorrow, being broadcast live on the GreatRunTV YouTube channel from 9.50am. You can also follow all the action via The News’ website, as well as our Facebook page.