Winchester 10k Road Race
From Challenging Events
- Date Sun 24th February 2019
- Location Winchester, Hampshire
- Races 0 charity places
Organiser's Description
The 2019 edition of the Winchester 10k Road Race will feature a one lap route with a mix of urban and countryside, starting outside the historic Winchester Guildhall in The Broadway. This year features a revised start, with the race leaving the Broadway via the exit next to King Alfred's statue. The route heads up St George's Street before going out towards the village of Kingsworthy. The return leg passes through the village of Headbourne Worthy and back towards Winchester, before finishing at The North Walls Recreation Centre. Custom Medal and T-shirt for all finishers
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7 reviews
Flexability. This event handled the situation with the weather very well. The organisers kept us very well informed with any potential course alterations on social media.
The on the day organisation again was very good. easily sing posted to the registration area to collect bibs. Where there were plenty of toilets. (always a bonus)
The course management went well, even with a slight issue for the first 100 or so runners. But human error with the marshals should not tarnish what was a great course. (I enjoyed the free mileage BTW)
Professional and great organisation. Well worth the travel and will be keen to attend again the future.
Overall a good event. For me the race was great but I went the right way. I was sent the correct way, but only just, which meant I caught up with people who had been sent on the extra 700m, which caused confusion. I realise there were last minute course changes but that should mean the organisers take more care in checking marshals etc knew the route. Little disappointed that haven't seen an email from the organisers apologising for the mistake.
Credit where it's due.... For my part I thought this was very well organised but then not being elite, I didn't do the director's cut version.
Start was slightly delayed but have had worse, other than that it was nigh on perfect. Fantastic marshalling (Thanks Marshalls), great support from the locals and just the right amount of light, refreshing drizzle.
Pleased to have run the entire course, hills and all having a) barely trained and b) got home at 1am the previous night (only myself to blame)
So all in all, other than the taxi I tried to hail on 7k refusing to drive me to the finish line, am well happy.
Nice bling too.
See you next year
Lovely Winchester. My very first organised event... Hubby and I travelled over from the Isle of Wight, so decided to make a weekend of it Beautiful city, fab accommodation. Best of all great run...a little nervous of the unknown, but great balance of hills, flats and some lovely scenery. Looking forward to next year.
My first 10k in 5 years. Glad I chose this event for my first 10k back after a 5 year drought! Hills were challenging but not too extreme & the size of field and fantastic support from locals & marshals alike made this a really friendly, enjoyable event. Well organised except for some parking issues but I will just need to arrive earlier next year!
Fantastic season opener. The course is essentially a series of extended uphill segments followed by short, sharp downhills. No part of it is boring and the field doesn’t get much chance to separate unless you’re right at the front so for the most part you’re never alone, but it’s not crowded apart from at the start and after the finish line (which I believe was due to poorly timed weather causing a flood at the planned finish line). Only hiccup I’m aware of was the lead marshalls not being fully aware of the new course and causing everyone who finished < about 40 mins to do an extra 0.7k. Nobody was very happy about that but since it was an accident and unlikely to happen again I still give the race 4.5
Winchester 10k Road Race
