Justin Staunton will commentate his 30th Terang Fun Run and Walk

The popular south-west personality will call his 30^th Terang and District Lions Club Fun Run and Walk this Friday night.

The 5.92-kilometre, which starts in Noorat and finishes out the front of Terang RSL, event is scheduled to at 6.30pm with the walk starting 15 minutes later.

Staunton has been involved since the second edition of the race only missing the first because he was travelling overseas.

His first time behind the microphone was brought about by knee injuries and Ian Blackburn asking him to commentate, starting a tradition he has kept going to this day.

"If you live in a small community town and you aren't involved you are not going to enjoy it but I have always involved myself in things such as the Noorat Show, the fun run, the Terang Gala Night," he said.

"I commentate for all those so it's a small part you do to contribute because there is a lot of people behind the scenes, in this case the Lions Club, who do a great amount of work.

"They just ask me to come along and commentate them mainly because I played footy in this area for a long time and then I coached the Auskick for 25 years and coached basketball so I know a lot of the kids.

"I also teach at Mercy Regional College in Camperdown and Terang College so I guess I know a lot of the kids and it takes the pressure off the Lions Club people who are just trying to run the night and not have to commentate it.

"My job is the easy job because they do all the work and I just come along and mouthpiece it."

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The 67-year-old said he was proud to still be apart of one of the community's most popular events.

"I love doing it because it is a community event and normally it's a good night," he said.

"It's a good opportunity to raise funds for the Lions Club and all that money goes back to the community in some form so it's a worthwhile thing to do.

"And for something running for 38 years people know about it and participate in it as kids and now as adults and now as adults their own children participating.

"I have seen a generation come through whereby you are calling them in the race one moment and the next minute their children are running in the race so that is always nice.

"You don't always get the names right and you might make a few up but that is all part and parcel of it."

Staunton has enjoyed watching a number of top athletes take on the event, such as race record holder and Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning athlete Steve Moneghetti.

Trophies are on offer for the first male over 50, female runner over 45, veteran male (40-49) and female (34-44), Open male and female, under 18, 15 and 13 male and female on the night.

Terang's Tyson Densley and Cooriemungle's Rachel Ayres are the run's defending champions.

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