FORMER Warwick State High School student Dan Symonds will be one of the favourites for the 15th annual Daily News Pentath-run this weekend.

Symonds won the event two years ago and was beaten into second by close mate Liam Woollett last year. Symonds works for Intraining in Brisbane.

In October, he won the Roger Guard Marathon in Toowoomba.

Woollett is not expected to run all five events but Symonds will be back and aiming for his second Pentath-run overall win.

His dream to run long distances started in cross country at Warwick High and he was one of a group from the school who were part of a Warwick team in a fundraising relay for the Endeavour Foundation at the time.

Last year's women's winner Kylie Simpson has not nominated which leaves the field right open.

Pat Sinnott was a long-time member of the Pentath-run organising committee and will compete in all five events.

He has won many distance events on the Southern Downs, including the Andy Wilson Run for Cancer Council Queensland at Maryvale.

The two toughest events will be the WIRAC Half Marathon from Warwick to Yangan and the Nike Robina Ascent from Killarney to Queen Mary Falls.

Regular Pentath-run finisher Carl Goodwin is the official starter of the Voyage Fitness Super Heroes 1500m on Sunday at 11am. The organising committee has runners from different age brackets and different walks of life starting each event.

One of Warwick's best known runners, Lesley Le Vaillant is running the 5km and 1500m after completing the WIRAC Half Marathon from Warwick to Yangan in around two hours on a number of occasions. She has suffered some feet difficulties in recent years and doesn't run as many marathons as she once did.

Mayor Cr Tracy Dobie is a past women's winner of the Sydney Marathon and has nominated for the 5km run starting outside the Sandy Creek Hotel, heading west to a point just past the bridge over Sandy Creek and then returning to the finish line outside the hotel.

International forward Shane Webcke will be a special guest at the Warwick Credit Union Cross Country over 4.6km at the Allora golf course.

Webcke will start the event and will be signing autographs for the children.

There are 345 runners who have nominated for all five events so far and more than 2300 nominations overall.

Online registrations close 6pm Wednesday on the pentath-run website.

Nominations will be accepted on the day before each event but runners must be at the starting point 45 minutes before the advertised time to make sure their nomination can be processed well before the starting time.

A capacity crowd of 160 will be at the run dinner on Saturday night in the dining room at Warwick Christian College.

Presentations for the first three races will be in Slade Hall at 5pm and those booked for dinner will proceed to the dining hall.

World Masters cycling gold medallist John Eder will be dinner speaker.