Residents urged to help runners with litter

There are only a few days left before the Benoni Northerns Marathon, sponsored by Kwikscaff, kicks off on July 3.

The Benoni Northerns Athletic Club is appealing to residents who live around the marathon route to help keep the race clean by leaving their wheelie bins on their street pavements for the runners to dispose of their litter.

“If your home is located on the race route, go outside on Sunday and cheer on the runners. It’s awesome encouragement, especially for those trying to qualify for the Comrades Marathon.

“The race is a proudly-local event, with members of the club working together to make it happen, while local people will be volunteering to host water stations,” said organiser Kerry Webb.

The race starts at Benoni Northerns Sport Club with 42.2km at 06:30, 21.1km at 06:45 and 10km at 07:00.

The 42.2km event is a double lapper of the half marathon route through Northmead, Rynfield and the Ebotse Estate and Golf Course. It’s a flat route with a slight incline coming out of the estate.

The route will start on Brodigan Street and then continues on Strokroos street. The runners will then turn left on Cypress and right onto Astes. On Jacaranda, they will turn left at the T-junction to rejoin Strokroos.

They will turn right on Yew, and then turn left on Dahlia. They will take another right on Tecoma where they will meet the first water point.

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They will turn right onto Leeubekkie and then left onto Oak where they will go over O’Reilly Merry and continue straight on Benoni Road. At President Steyn, they will turn right and take another right to join President Boshoff.

They will run past Old Benonians Sport Club to their left and further up, run past St’ Dunstan’s College. They will turn left on Bok Street and then right at the T-junction to join Moodie at the second watermark.

From there they will turn left onto Craggs and left again to Hartshorne. They will take another left on Waterson and then right into Goodman where they will meet the third water point.

The route continues straight on Goodman until turning right onto Parker, and goes over Pretoria Road until turning right on Simon. From there, it turns left on Zimbali where it enters Ebotse Estate and Golf Course.

The runners will run through the estate and exit at CR Swart Park onto Sarel Cilliers where they continue straight until turning left onto Joubert Street into the 16km water point.

They will run straight on Joubert until turning left on Miles Sharp, then take another left onto Korsman. They will then turn right into Malherbe where they will continue straight until turning right on Nestardt.

After that stretch, they turn left into Davidson and then take a right into Malcolm and left again onto Curtis. They will turn right into Madeley and then turn left into Brodigan, run over O’Reilly Merry and then into the BNSC premises to finish.

The 10km runners will re-route on Hartshorne where they will take a right until turning left on Dobson. The runners will turn right onto Milburn and then left onto Sarel Cilliers Street. On Mathers Street, they will turn left and continue straight until turning left on Brodigan Street where they will turn left onto Mauch after a short run.

They will re-join Brodigan Street after the loop and run over O’Reilly and into BNSC to finish.

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