It’s a handicap race - the slowest runners start first. The first time you enter you will be consulted about your expected time for 3 miles/5 kilometres. When we get it right - more often than not - you all come belting up the finishing straight in close order.
It’s held every month - since June 1988 - with no plans to stop.
It’s absolutely prizeless ! You get no medals, no goody bags - just glory (and sweat) - except for one annual award (see below) and a "Frequent Flyer" medal to every runner (8 so far) who finishes more than 100 runs - including one who has completed 200.
How do I enter ?There is no entry fee - and no entry form - just turn up and run.
Any age limit ? Our youngest entrant to date was 7 and our oldest 88.
When is it held ? On the first Wednesday of every month at 12:30 p.m. Allow, say, 15 minutes to sign in, receive a start time and study the map of the course, which is a flat, clockwise circuit.
Where is it held ? Start and finish are at the Woking Leisure Centre, Woking Park, Kingfield Road, Woking GU22 9BA.
Tel:01483-771122.
© Jim Miller 4th November 2009
Changing rooms and showers are available or you can come ready changed.
Where is that ? The Leisure Centre (click for map) is in Woking Park, on the Kingfield Road (A247) opposite Woking Football Club ground. There is a large, free car park or you can walk from Woking Station (exit from platform 5, cross car park and then about half a mile down White Rose Lane to the back gate of the park). No. 34 bus (Guildford-Camberley) passes the park entrance.
Holders of the Phillips Petroleum “Runner of the Year” shield
1996 Alan Davidson - Liss Runners
1997 Walter Busuttil - Phillips Petroleum Runners
1998 Barny Brennan - Phillips Petroleum Runners
1999 Lucy Aphramor - Sale Harriers
2000 Karl Corpes - Aldershot, Farnham & District
2001 Andrew Hislop - Aldershot, Farnham & District
2002 Hazel Imeson - Tadworth A.C.
2003 Gerald Cunning - Running Sixties
2004 Mark Coxhead - Windle Valley Runners →→
2005 Keith Spacie - Thames Hare & Hounds →→
2006 Ray Marriott - South London Harriers
2007 Sue Walker - Unattached
2008 Ramona Thevenet-Smith →→
(photographs ©Eric Marsh,Aldershot)
Related websites:-
Surrey Athletic Clubs
Windle Valley Runners
Woking Athletic Club
Window on Woking Unrelated websites:-
History of Jacobs Well
Domestic Buildings Research Group
Anything else ?
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