Witham RC Magic Mile – Friday 30th June

We know that many of you won’t lace up your running shoes for anything less than a 10K, but we will be organising our own 1 mile track race on Friday 30th to coincide with the end of the Strava Mile challenge – https://blog.strava.com/strava-mile/

We’ll be meeting at the Braintree Leisure Centre Tabor track at 19:30hrs on Friday 30th June, in the week following the conclusion of Martyn’s Track Sessions, so you are at your most speedy and well used to running at pace around the track. If you haven’t attended yet, it’s not too late as there are sessions on the 17th and 24th left for you to try.

Following a thorough warm up we’ll run 3 timed, mixed races of 1 mile (4 and a smidge laps of the track!).

Race groupings will be based on your own estimated race time and (assuming there is at least one Male and Female entrant per race) the first person over the finish line from each gender will receive the Kudos from your fellow club members as well as your having your name live on in Internet posterity on the Witham RC news feed and Strava. We’ll be relying on 1. your honesty in choosing the right race, and; 2. the knowledge that most of us are followed so closely by each other on Strava to keep us all in line!

Everyone competing will also receive an accurately measured time for their efforts – thanks to a good old fashioned stopwatch. If it was good enough for Sir Roger Bannister …..!

Below are the proposed groupings, but we’re happy to receive feedback/other suggestions. You can either run it as a flat out time trial, or run more tactically in order to try and crush your opposition in the home straight with your late surge:-

1 – estimated race time of 8:00 and above

2 – estimated race time of 6:30 to 8:00 (23:00-26:30 5K time)

3 – estimated race time of 5:00 to 6:30 (17:00-22:00 5K time)

Further details will be posted nearer the time but for now clear your diary (and arrange a babysitter as necessary), and if you are attending please let us know in either the comments section below or the Facebook event we’ve created!!

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