Top runners in Mason Hall 10K

The Divers Den-sponsored Mason Hall Police Youth Club’s fifth annual Sports and Family Day comes off at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet, Tobago, tomorrow. Activities include track events, football, a 10K road race, and a cultural entertainment segment featuring limbo, folk dances, as well as a Maypole competition, with a live band, Caribbean In XS, in attendance. The track events will include 100-metre to 1,500-metre races and two relays with prizes of $1,000 each. Widely regarded as the top road race event in the island, the 10K, sponsored by Coco Reef Resort and Spa, starts at 4 pm in Mason Hall and ends at the stadium. Close to $15,000 in prizes will be at stake in this event, with $2,000 going to the winner in the open category and $1,000 to the top female.

Curtis Cox and Solange Griffith, who led the pack to winners’ row last year, are expected to have a tough battle keeping the other runners at bay this time around, while there will also be prizes in several individual age-group categories. A door-prize of a microwave oven, as well as other give-aways every half of an hour, will be in the offing for spectators. The day’s activities get going at 12.30 pm.