Worden Park Boxing Day 10k

A well organised event. A great run ! Marshalls were brilliant in their ever encouraging shout outs . It was lovely chatting to people round the course .
Thank you for giving your time up especially during the a Christmas season

My first race. This was my first experience of a race, having started running in January this year. It seemed well organised, with friendly marshalls. The electronic timing worked well. And I finished! Thanks to all concerned.

Not the most scenic of routes....... Nothing much to see on the route, which was a little disappointing considering it's in a 'park' (with some sections out on the open road, and not always with a pavement). Plenty of animal (chicken?) farm smells through one section. Distinct lack of toilets at the start (3, which I was told was an improvement on last year!), but fortunately I arrived with plenty of time to queue. I also hadn't realised that there was some out-and-back / repeat loop type work on the course - I'm not a fan of either. Mileage signs didn't seem to be accurately positioned (hard to say for sure as signs were in miles for a km run, and my watch was set to km), but the finish line did seem to be pretty much spot on which is always a bonus.

That said, the marshalls were very clear with instructions and always had encouragement to throw at us. And (despite the only serious - thankfully fairly short - uphill being in the last km) it was the best run in terms of time / not needing walk breaks I've done all year.

Love my reindeer medal.

Will I do it again? Possibly, as it was a struggle to find a 10k in December that was local-ish to home on a non-working day. But I don't often have Boxing Day free, and won't be trying to re-arrange other things to get to this if I have other options to try out.