Isle of Man 2015 Easter Festival of Running: Registration now open

Registration for the 2015 Isle of Man Easter Festival of Running is now open.The 2015 event, the 53rd, begins on Good Friday April 3rd in the south of the island in Port Erin, moves to Peel, in the west, on April 4th and to Douglas promenade in the capital on Easter Sunday, April 5th. Festival director Chris Quine said: ‘In recent years there’s been something of a reawakening of interest in the festival with the 2014 event attracting the highest number of competitors since the 1980s - 450 – and Manx entries up by some 100 per cent. ‘This is a festival in the truest sense of the word.