The festival features half marathon, marathon, 5km and 10km events. The fun runs start and finish in Mudgee’s Lawson Park.

Mudgee Triathlon Club hold the festival, and Susan Collings from the club said that the registrations are “still pouring in”.

“It looks like the registrations for the running festival are tracking higher than previous years and will definitely be in excess of 500 entrants,” she said.

The course starts at the barbecue area in Lawson Park and includes one lap of Lawson Park following the marked paths, before exiting at the top gate near the roundabout and turning right.

Runners will then head along the footpath on Cassilis Road towards the Glen Willow underpass, beneath the road and onto the footpath along Pitts Lane to the turnaround point.

Once they’ve reached that point they’ll come back along Pitts Lane and turn right toward the new footbridge and follow the path all the way back to the start point in Lawson Park.

That will complete the run for the half marathon participants, the marathon runners will keep going for another lap of the course.

Among the 500-plus entrants expected for the event are mother and daughter Lynne Delph and BJ Sinclair who will be running the half marathon.

The pair said that they are participating in the event to “tick it off the bucket list”.

“We did it to challenge ourselves. We don’t expect to do it too quickly but we will finish it, that’s our goal,” they said.

Food, drinks, a barbecue, and tea and coffee will be available in Lawson Park for spectators and competitors when they complete their run. The presentation will follow the completion of the marathon.

Find out more on the Mudgee Running Festival website.