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Olympic Stadium 🏟 C25k/BBC women’s 5k

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(Posted on Bridge to 10k too)

Just heading home from an amazing day in the Olympic Park in Stratford. I ran in the C25k/BBC/British Athletics women’s 5k race in and around the Olympic Stadium this morning, ahead of day 2 of the Müller Anniversary Games.

The event was free to enter, and we also got a cool C25k T-shirt, a British Athletics sports bag, and a seat to the proper world class athletics competition all free too!

The chip time email hasn’t arrived yet but think it was around 26:20 - not bad for a pretty hot and humid run on what was a surprisingly difficult course.

The race started with 300m on The Olympic track then we ran out of the stadium and into the park, looping along paths, over bridges, along canals and eventually back into the stadium for a final 100m sprint finish!

The event was just for women and very inclusive. I saw a few runners with buggies and the final three ladies crossed the finish line holding hand to huge cheers in just under 59 minutes.

A great day out and brilliant to see some of our best British Athletes performances too!

This marks my 6 month Anniversary from my first w1 r1 in January when I hadn’t run even 100m since school in 1981. All down to the C25k app and Sarah Millican in my ear!

Thank you! 🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️

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Sounds absolutely fabulous and you look... absolutely fabulous too! Well done!

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HinchleyMumGraduate in reply toOldfloss

Thanks Oldfloss! 😊

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GranspeedGraduate

Looks and sounds brilliant. Well done you for spotting it & then participating. 🎉👏🏼🎉

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HinchleyMumGraduate in reply toGranspeed

Thanks Granspeed - yes once I saw it I felt I just had to enter - am so pleased I did!

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Vintage61Graduate

Brilliant! Well done all 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

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HinchleyMumGraduate in reply toVintage61

Thanks Vintage61 😊

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AstonechatGraduate

I did it too! What a great day 🏃‍♀️

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HinchleyMumGraduate in reply toAstonechat

Well done to you too! Hopefully there were a load of us there! I just think it’s so great that we’ve got official 100m sprint times as it recognised the segment on Strava. (A rather slow 25s but that was after an exhausting 4900m wasn’t it?!) 🤣

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AstonechatGraduate in reply toHinchleyMum

I don’t think I got that on MapMyRun. Looking forward to getting the official time tomorrow, a lot slower than yours but it is my 66th birthday today!

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HinchleyMumGraduate in reply toAstonechat

Happy Birthday 🥳- what a wonderful way to spend your day!

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AstonechatGraduate in reply toHinchleyMum

Thank you it was!

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BluebirdrunnerGraduate

Lovely picture to treasure! Well done you! I have replied on the B210k site.😊xx

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ButtercupKidGraduate

That’s fabulous ! Well done you and all your fellow runners, not to mention everyone involved in the organisation 🏅

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HinchleyMumGraduate in reply toButtercupKid

Thank you - and yes great organisation and lots of supportive Marshall’s along the route!

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ButtercupKidGraduate in reply toHinchleyMum

Perfect day out ! Hope you’re getting a good rest now 😀

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