Crowds return for Adelaide’s Lumary City-Bay Fun Run after three years
Tens of thousands of South Australians threw on their activewear for the first City-Bay Fun Run in three years – and our photographers caught all the action. Did they snap you?
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Adelaide got its legs back on Sunday with the Lumary City-Bay Fun Run drawing thousands of runners after a three-year hiatus.
Kicking off at 7am, at least 15,000 runners made their way up Anzac Highway to Moseley Square in Glenelg.
Event manager Andrew Holman said it was a “great atmosphere” to see the city come back to life with so many people out and about.
“We know that the City-Bay is a festival, it’s a festival of fun and fitness and community, but just to see them (runners) edged on by their family and supporters which was absolutely brilliant,” Mr Holman said.
REPLAY: Watch you and your mates finish City-Bay
“People come across the line having done a personal best, or just having completed the run for the first time in three years, and we had three people doing their 48th City-Bay.
“It’s just great to be back. It’s the springboard to bigger and better.”
Crossing the line first was Australian Olympic marathon runner Jack Rayner, who took out the race with a time of 34:22.
“It was my first run back after a bit of an injury and it’s one of my favourite races to do here, the Adelaide City-Bay is such a nice course,” Rayner said.
“It’s really well organised, a beautiful crowd and everything you want in a race.”
The first woman across the line was local legend and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Jessica Stenson, who came in at 38:43 running her tenth City-Bay.
“I remember always dreaming of running it as a kid, then in high school my sister and I ran it together,” Stenson said.
“It’s always a tough race, the City-Bay, and there was strong competition out there.
“The support was great and having crowds again is a bit surreal.”
Raising money for her own not-for-profit charity, No I Can Run, Amy Tobin travelled from the Gold Coast to take part in the City-Bay, having pushed a bit harder than she is used to.
“It’s a long way that 12km, I’ve done 10km before but I’ve not done 12km before and that little extra bit was just enough,” Tobin said.
“We’re out here raising money for other kids with cerebral palsy to get race runners, which helps them run.
“The community atmosphere was amazing and seeing people out just having a go was awesome.”
Raising awareness for a rare cancer disease, Natalie Bunworth ran with the names of 44 children on her cape to represent the number of children diagnosed with neuroblastoma in Australia this year.
“On my cape, 22 of the children have actually passed away with neuroblastoma, and the other 22 are survivors so I’m running for them all today,” Bunworth said.
“I’ve been doing the City-Bay since 2014, running for childhood cancer awareness.
“We’re also doing the New York Marathon this year in November, so we’ll be heading off there in seven weeks.
“I’m hoping to take my cape and tutu to run for the kids over there.”
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