Entries still open for Bellarine Sunset Run

ENTRIES are still open for this Saturday’s Flying Brick Bellarine Sunset Run, but organisers are urging interested participants to sign up fast.

Many families and friends have ventured to the peninsula over the past six years to spend a weekend running, eating, drinking, smiling and laughing with friends and loved ones.

There are three distances – the Active Feet Half Marathon; Port Phillip Ferries 10km; and the Community Bank Portarlington and Drysdale Bully Buster 4km.

The Active Feet Half Marathon is an out and back course starting at the Portarlington Pier at 5.20pm, with runners making their way to the St Leonards pier, passing through the Indented Head foreshore and three caravan parks, as well as enjoying panoramic views of Melbournes skyline across the bay.

The Port Phillip Ferries 10km covers the back half of the half marathon course, with a point-to-point trail starting at 5.20pm from St Leonards Pier through Indented Head and finishing at the Portarlington Pier.

For those who don’t enjoy running but want to reap the mental health benefits of a long walk, try the Community Bank Portarlington and Drysdale Bully Buster 4km, with $20 from all entries to be donated to Bellarine Community Health Youth Services, facilitators of the headspace program on the Bellarine.

The distance was chosen to represent the fact one in four young Australians between the ages of 12 and 25 will be living with a mental health issue, and of those only one in four will seek help.

The Bully Buster 4km will start from Bellarine Sunset Run HQ in front of the Portarlington pier immediately before the Active Feet Half Marathon.

It will make its way in the opposite direction to the runs heading 2km towards Point Richards along the Bellarine Coastal Trail, passing the caravan park on the water’s edge before turning back at the miniature railway.

For more information or to sign up, head to the Bellarine Sunset Run’s website or Facebook page.