In August 2019, we had the honour and privilege of visiting Cirencester in the Cotswolds in the UK. Cirencester has a friendship arrangement with Bathurst NSW, as its the ancestral home of Lord Bathurst.

Our City was named after the 5th Earl Bathurst, and we spend a lovely few days with the 9th Earl, Lord Allen Bathurst and his delightful wife Lady Sara at their home The Mansion on the Bathurst Estate.

London Virtual Marathon - Our good friend Simon King, who has spent many months visiting us here in Bathurst from Cirencester started chatting about the idea of us running the London Marathon together what a brilliant idea! Except COVID!

Instead, he worked together with the Cirencester Housing for Young People to get entries for their virtual marathon.

The team in Cirencester are running their marathon on the grounds of The Bathurst Estate. Their little Beano coffee van will be selling our local Fish River Roasters coffee on the day, a lovely tie to us here in Bathurst.

Stephen and Jenn thought long and hard about where we could find a nice, easy, flat route in Bathurst and decided that the only iconic option to compare to The Bathurst Estate was to complete seven laps of Mount Panorama. What could possibly go wrong?!

We aim to start our marathon in the early afternoon of Sunday 3rd October 2021, with the view to starting our final lap about 6.30pm. This will be 8.30am UK time as we pass the virtual baton to the rest of our team in Cirencester as they commence their marathon!