Olympic Stadium 🏟 C25k/BBC women’s 5k

[HinchleyMum]

(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! 🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

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

[HinchleyMum Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

Thanks Oldfloss! 😊

[Granspeed Graduate]

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

[HinchleyMum Graduate in reply to Granspeed]

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

[Vintage61 Graduate]

Brilliant! Well done all 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[HinchleyMum Graduate in reply to Vintage61]

Thanks Vintage61 😊

[Astonechat Graduate]

I did it too! What a great day 🏃‍♀️

[HinchleyMum Graduate in reply to Astonechat]

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?!) 🤣

[Astonechat Graduate in reply to HinchleyMum]

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!

[HinchleyMum Graduate in reply to Astonechat]

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

[Astonechat Graduate in reply to HinchleyMum]

Thank you it was!

[Bluebirdrunner Graduate]

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

[ButtercupKid Graduate]

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

[HinchleyMum Graduate in reply to ButtercupKid]

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

[ButtercupKid Graduate in reply to HinchleyMum]

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