Another of the Stirling area’s top running events has been cancelled over coronavirus restrictions.
The organisers of the Mulberry Bush Montessori Balfron 10k have taken the difficult decision to call off this year’s event.
The race was scheduled to take place on Sunday, April 25.
Updating runners on the Balfron 10k website, the organising committee said that “after very careful consideration” they had taken the decision due to the ongoing coronavirus restrictions.
They said: “Throughout this new lockdown period we have been closely monitoring all advice and guidelines being given by the Scottish Government. We had looked at postponing the event into September/October 2021 as some races are doing, but since it now seems likely there will still be social distancing restrictions in place around that date, it would be impossible to organise and deliver the community event that is the Mulberry Bush Montessori Balfron 10k.
“Also, if we did reschedule our race for autumn 2021 but were forced to postpone again, it would mean months of planning and effort by our volunteers would be wasted, and further disappointment heaped on our entrants.
“We will instead now focus on running our race in 2022. All of our 10k team are saddened at having to make this decision but as we made clear before, the welfare of runners, volunteers, visitors and our community is paramount.
“Obviously some of you have already deferred your entry from 2020 into 2021 and these entries will be carried over into 2022 without any further action from yourselves.”
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The latest cancellation comes after the organisers of the Stirling Marathon were last month forced to postpone May’s race until October this year over uncertainty surrounding the pandemic.
