More than 300 take to runway
MORE than 300 runners were at Guernsey Airport for the 2021 Channel Islands Air Search Runway Run on Saturday night.
Guernsey Friends of Airsearch president David Hugo said 363 runners took part.
At 10pm they had a safety briefing, and the run itself started shortly after.
The run was not a race and runners took between 15 and 45 minutes to complete the route.
‘It was a really good night,’ he said.
Claire Pannenborg, 42, had done the run before, and invited her mum Pam Chalker and aunt Nancy Ozanne to take part this weekend.
‘It’s just a really different place to run,’ she said. ‘There is actually quite a slope. You think it’s flat, but it’s really not.’
The run was sponsored by accountancy firm BDO. Managing director Richard Searle said the firm had signed an initial three-year sponsorship deal and 24 members of staff took part in the run.
Mr Hugo said it had been a massive community effort by individuals and businesses to get the event ready.
He also gave a special thank you to Guernsey Airport staff for getting everything to run smoothly.
For the first time the event used the Race Nation platform to co-ordinate the fundraising and Mr Hugo said that had worked well.
