PEOPLE who went to the Esplanade this morning for their regular “Parkrun” group jog will have been disappointed.

Council bureaucrats emailed organisers just before midday yesterday telling them to find an alternate track, which left the group no time to mark out a new running route by this morning.

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The popular local event attracts more than 100 participants for an hour’s run each Saturday, but it has become a problem for council because cyclists have complained the runners use 1km of the Esplanade’s designated bike path.

Brynn Mathews from Cairns ­Bicycle User Group applauded council’s intervention.

“There’s all the parkland near the bike path, it’s all grass, so I don’t understand why they have to run on the concrete cycleway,” he said.

Parkrun organiser Lorraine Lawson announced the cancellation on Facebook yesterday.

Council emailed Mrs Lawson a map of a suggested alternate route.

But she doesn’t like the look of it.

“To the south we’d be running on the boardwalk around prams and dogs, and to the north we’re running around bicycles,” she said.

“Council’s solution is to have us running in loops.”

Mrs Lawson says the event may need to find a new organiser or she may shift it to Palm Cove.

“But we’re good for business in town. Everyone goes for breakfast around town afterwards in Edge Hill or we have a table permanently reserved for us at Muddy’s.”

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