Over 1000 people will converge on Rotorua's Lake front on Sunday to run or walk the Podium Rotorua Running Festival.
The course will cover the Whakarewarewa Forest, serene golf courses, thermally active Sulphur Bay, Rotorua Museum, Te Puia, and Lake Rotorua, with the Podium City of Rotorua Half, Brooks 10k, Novotel Community 4k and a Kids 2k Dash.
Encouraging people to get fit and healthy, the distances cater for the couch potato through to the whippet, and everyone in between.
It's fun for the whole family, with over $12,000 in merit and spot prizes, and all finishers receiving a event medal.
A warrior from the Mataraki Cultural group will start the event with the blowing of a putatara.