Hundreds of runners are expected to converge on Wimbledon Park athletics stadium on Sunday to compete in the annual Geoff Moulden road race which is being staged for the 49th time.

The race will start on the athletics track at 10am and finish on the track around half-an-hour later. Runners will complete almost 500m on the track before heading for the park gates on Wimbledon Park road and then starting on a circuit which passes the All England tennis club in Church Road, Arthur Road and past St Mary's Church before heading down Home Park Road and back into Wimbledon Park at the Home Park Road entrance.

Entries are being taken on the day at a cost of £15 a head, however bumper prizes will be up for grabs for the leading finishers with £200 going to first man and woman to cross the finishing line at Wimbledon Park track.

Hercules Wimbledon's youngsters will be in action in the Surrey young athletes cross country relays which are being held at Guildford's Stoke Park on Saturday (October 3). The club's men's under 17 squad will be aiming to lift a set of medals.

Teenager Liam White was the best Hercules Wimbledon runner in the South of England road relay championships at Aldershot's Rushmoor Arena in gloriously sunny weather on Sunday. At 16, White was too young to score for the A team but gave further evidence of his talent as he brought the B team home in 34th place on the opening leg clocking 19 minutes 54 seconds for the six kilometres lap. He finished well ahead of A team runner Chris Coles who was 76th in 21:54. Adam Sikora (22:17) slipped to 62nd place on the second leg but managed to keep the B team ahead in this domestic battle as Benjamin Le Grand (21:01) took the A team up to 69th place.

Justin Kelly (21:26) gained another seven places but was still two down on the B team for whom, Belal Aly, in his first race since running in the English national cross country championship in February, clocked 22:08 to hand over in 60th position. Adam Przedrzmirski stormed round the fourth lap in 20:27 to lift the A team into 54th place as Hussein Ahmed Aly (23:05) slipped to 66th place for the B team.

Mike Halman, back to good form after recovering from a back problem, posted the fastest A team time of 20:23 as he moved through to 50th place before teenager Alex Robinson (20:44) gained another seven places on the anchor stage. Another Hercules Wimbledon youngster, Joe Toomey (21:27) gained a further three places for the B team before White ran a second leg in 20:47 gaining another four places.

Former English cross country champion Dave Clarke, now 51, returned to competitive action when he ran the fastest lap for the club's veteran over 40 team. He moved through from 27th to 18th place on the second leg with a time of 20:40 which would have ranked him second fastest in the over 50 category. Stewart Bond (22:57) ran the opening leg for the over 40 team. Frank Wood (24:11) slipped to 20th on the third leg before Peter Lee (21:54) gained two positions on the anchor stage.

Hugh Saxby (23:25) was the fastest member of the veteran over 50 team while Martin Miller (24:53) was fastest of the over 60 team.

Mike Halman beat more than 100 rivals to win the testing Standstead Slog Hilly Trail half-marathon in Hampshire in 1:19:45. Clubmate Rory McMahon was seventh in 1:29:31. Martin Miller was top over 60 finisher in the eight miles race.

Hercules Wimbledon runners were prominent in the parkruns on Saturday. Alex Robinson was third out of 550 runners at Bushy Park, James Garnier fourth out of more than 150 competitors on Wimbledon Common and Barry White seventh in the Roundshaw Downs event.