Nearly 1,500 line up for Manx Telecom Parish Walk

Saturday, 20 June 2015 00:00

Today marks the 2015 Manx Telecom Parish Walk.

1,488 people will set off on the gruelling 85-mile race-walk at 8am from the NSC athletics track.

Organiser Ray Cox is hoping that people are wearing their participant number tags in the correct way so that the 'pick-to-go system' can correctly identify them.

He explained how this new technology will work:

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