Entries for the 2018 Parish Walk open on Friday (December 1).

The island’s most popular mass participation sports event will take place on Saturday, June 23.

Participants walk through every parish in the island on an 85-mile course.

Discounts are available for those who sign up early. Entry before January 31 costs £30, but walkers who are mobile customers of Manx Telecom, which sponsors the event, will also get an additional £5 discount if they enter before that date.

All Parish Walk entries must be made online at www.parishwalk.com.

From February 1 to March 31 the fee is £35, and £40 from April 1 until the final closing date on May 6.

The race starts at the National Sports Centre in Douglas and finishes near the war memorial on Douglas Promenade as usual.

Prizes will be awarded to all walkers who complete the full distance in under 24 hours.

Sub 18-hour finishers receive a gold certificate, 18- to 21-hour finishers receive silver, and 21- to-24 hour finishers, bronze.

For 2018, there will again be a competition for younger walkers aged 18 to 21 completing the 32.5 miles to Peel.

There’s a corporate team award for teams of four walkers who are all from the same Isle of Man-based company and with no more than one walker who has previously completed the full 85-mile distance.

And there’s an overall team category for four walkers, which cannot include more than two who have completed the full 85 miles.

In both of the team competitions the winners will be decided by the highest aggregate distance covered by all four members, and all participants in the team competitions must enter individually and include their team names.