Sadly, there won’t be a 5k Gunnersbury handicap on the first Wednesday of the month this summer but there will be this!
Open to everyone who wants to see how their running is faring during lockdown and/or those who want to set themselves a challenge to improve their 5k time over one month.
We’ll have a leaderboard of fastest times for each age category and also biggest improvement in times for each age category between June’s time trial and July’s time trial.
This can be a challenge of you vs you from one month to the next or you can challenge someone else to a 5k virtual race; you can even do the same course (just not at the same time).
The rules:
- Run 5k between Monday 1 June and Sunday 7 June. If you run under 5k, it doesn’t count, if you run over 5k, the whole time is the time you enter for the time trial (no knocking off seconds because you didn’t stop your watch bang on 5k).
- You choose your own route. In order to make a fair comparison, you MUST run the exact same route next month. If you deliberately work out the biggest net downhill route you can find, you are only kidding yourself about your amazing new 5k time.
- Enter your name, age grading and 5k time on the google doc (link below) and submit a screen shot of your garmin/strava to the Ealing Eagles Facebook Virtual Time Trial album. The picture should include the route, the time and the distance. Please do this before midnight on Sunday 7 June (and subsequently Sunday 5 July for the July TT). After the deadline the google doc will be locked.
- No need to sign up in advance, just add the info above before the deadline in the google doc. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GpJiYUAoFQNgcP5rphT8PEliSxmglSXdtEH5zZkqR6c/edit?usp=sharing
- Leaderboards will be published the second week of the month.
- No stopping of watches at traffic lights – this is a time trial.
- No sandbagging - don’t be ‘that’ person who runs deliberately slow in the June TT to ensure a massive improvement in the July TT.
- Represent your club and run in your Eagles vest/top.
- Remember to social distance safely.
