Congratulations to everyone involved with another successful City-Bay fun run - from the organising committee and the many volunteers to all the runners, walkers and rollers.
This year’s City Bay was the 50th Anniversary
Started in 1973 by Bob Clarke the first race had 1600 runners and went from the Adelaide Town Hall to the Glenelg Town Hall.
After the challenges of COVID and not being able to run the City Bay for 2 years, there were over 25 000 people who took part including my wife Tammy and myself
In a fitting result both the men’s winner, Isaac Heyne, and the women’s winner, Izzi Batt-Doyle, were from South Australia.
While Tammy and I were slightly further behind we both enjoyed the colour and friendly atmosphere with the highlight being running up Jetty Rd – seeing many friendly faces encouraging the runners and crossing the finish line.
Special mention to two of those runners Tony Heard, and Gil McIntosh who have run in all 50 City Bay’s. I caught up with Tony after the race and while this year’s race was a challenge on his body he was always going to cross the finish line.
Thank you to Joe Stevens and his team for a fantastic City to Bay and ensuring the 50th celebrations were worthy of the significance the race has in Glenelg and South Australia.