Children as young as four-years-old are now eligible to compete in the KPMG Round the Grounds running race to be held on May 2.

The Botanical Gardens will be the setting for the 12th KPMG Junior Running Race, which is organised by the Mid Atlantic Athletic Club, with new age group categories being introduced so that each year-group under the age of nine will run separately.

Current record holders include Zakiyyah Showers, who ran the hilly one-mile course in 6 minutes 54 seconds in 2008, the last year the race was run.

She was the top female junior finishing the Ed Sherlock Five Mile Run in 13th place overall, while also placing second in this year's Front Street Mile Middle School girls category in a time of 5.43.

Also having a good season is Molly Pilgrim, who holds the 11-12 year old girls category record for the Round the Grounds Race.

Diondre Dowling holds the course record for the 9-10-year- old boys.

In the boys 11-12 age group, Justin Ferreira holds the record for the Botanical Gardens race, and finished in fourth place in the Front Street Mile this year.

Kamryn Minors is the Round the Grounds race record holder for the 13-15 year old girls' category.

In the boys 3,000m under-15 race, both Cameron Creighton and Juma Mouchette broke the meet record set in 1987 by Jay Donowa.

Mouchette holds the Round the Grounds record for 2.1 miles run in 13.09.

The deadline for entry for the KPMG race is tomorrow. Entry forms are available from, and can be returned to, Sportseller or entry is available on-line at www.bermudatiming.bm.