(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! 🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️