BRADFORD'S second PARKRUN course will be officially openend on Saturday at Horton Park (9am).

The three-lap course is an accurate 5km and starts along the central ornamental promenade at the historic cast-iron bridge.

As with the highly successful Lister Park course, which regularly attracts 500 runners, the route is all on tarmac, following the broad park paths.

It is free to enter, but newcomers to the parkrun initiative need to register online beforehand to get their barcode arranged.

Car-parking is on Horton Park Avenue or Powell Avenue, and there are plenty of buses down Little Horton Road (571, 576, 268A etc), less than five minutes' walk away.

Last week's Lister Park run was won by Will Kerr in 16min 52sec but faster times can probably be expected from the flatter, but twistier Horton Park course.

The final JOHN CARR 5K at Esholt last Wednesday attracted a huge turnout of 386 runners, with a second victory for Jamil Parapia of Otley AC (in 15min 36sec).

His clubmate Scott Harrington was second in 16min 2sec, out-dipping the host club's Pete Hopson (Saltaire) for second.

Hopson's training partners Chris Williams (Queensbury), Jonny McKenna, Will Kerr and Tom Collinge were fourth (16:08), eighth (16:17), ninth (16:18) and 16th (17:07) respectively.

Scottish and British international marathon star Sue Partridge was top woman in 17 minutes dead, a place ahead of Collinge. It was her fastest 5k for ten years after finishing fifth in last year's Commonwealth Games.

Bingley's evergreen John Convery was top over-50 in 17:10, placing him 14th nationwide for his age group so far this year.

Harrington was overall men's winner of the series, with Hannah Oldroyd best of the women.

Tanya Seager (Stainland Lions) notched a course record of 44min 21sec in the seven-mile ILKLEY TRAIL RACE on Monday, finishing 90 seconds ahead of Sarah Shanks.

The race overall was won by Parapia (41:15), who kept a good lead over the Pudsey & Bramley pair of Graham Pearce and Matt Lockyer, who outsprinted Julian Hood for third.

The 337 finishers were raising money for the Revival Centre and Orphanage in Matugga, Uganda.