Runners have put their best foot forward for a pilot event on the road to a safe return of mass participation sport amid a “brilliant atmosphere”.
The only running event in the Government’s Events Research Programme began on Saturday morning at Kempton Park in Surrey.
Runners and spectators taking part in the Reunion 5K will help to provide scientific data on Covid-19 transmission levels, with both socially-distanced and non-socially-distanced runs being trialled.
Surrey County Council leader Tim Oliver said it had been “amazing” to take part.
Runners were taking part in a socially-distanced and a non-socially-distanced 5k (Yui Mok/PA)