10k Details

Final Instructions

Final instructions will be emailed to all competitors a few days before the race. They will also be available on this web site. They may update the details below!

Pre-Registration

This will take place at Aldershot Cricket Club on the following dates:

Wednesday 2nd October – 6:30pm to 8:30pm.

Saturday 5th October – 9:00am to 12pm (midday). COME ALONG AFTER PARKRUN 🙂

If you pre-register on Wednesday before 7pm, you’re welcome to a free run with Blackwater Valley Runners at 7pm. There will be a number of different groups with different paces/distances to choose from.

If you pre-register then on Sunday arrive at the race by car and park in the race car park, you don’t need to go into the Military Athletics Stadium except to use the toilets. You can leave any baggage in the car, then wait in your car until 10.15am when it’s time to make your way to the start line.

Race Day Number Collection

Number collection will be possible between 9:00am and 10:00am at the Military Athletics Stadium, but please try and pick up your number beforehand at pre-registration if you can, to avoid long queues.

Sorry – no entries on the day. Race Number needs to be collected in person.

T-Shirts

If you ordered a t-shirt, you can collect it when you collect your race number.  If you ordered one then discover that you can’t do the race but still want the t-shirt, let us know before race day using the Contact Us form and we’ll save one for you.  You’ll then be able to collect it from Aldershot Cricket Club on the Wednesday after the race. Any spare t-shirts are donated to our volunteers after the race!

Race Day Schedule

9:00am – Race registration and bag drop opens

10:00am – Race registration closes

10:10am – Bag drop closes

10:30am – 10k Race start on Polo fields

Key Locations

Race HQ (toilets, registration and bag drop) – Military Athletics Stadium, Queen’s Avenue, Aldershot

Start – On the Polo fields across Queen’s Avenue from the Athletics Stadium (very close to the Rushmoor parkrun start)

Finish – Military Athletics Stadium, Queen’s Avenue, Aldershot

Travel by Public Transport

The race start and finish is approximately 2.5 miles from Aldershot Railway Station and 1.5 miles from North Camp Railway Station. There is no connecting bus service from North Camp Station to Queen’s Avenue in Aldershot but the No. 1 route Stagecoach Goldline bus service stops in Queen’s Avenue, a short walk from the start. The No. 1 route bus service also connects Farnborough Main Railway Station.

Travel on Foot

The Basingstoke canal tow path runs from Woking to Queen’s Avenue and also from Fleet/ Basingstoke in the other direction. The race start and finish is about a 30 minute walk from Aldershot town centre along Hospital Hill and then Queens Avenue.

Travel by Car

We suggest that competitors coming from the Farnborough direction park in the public Napier Gardens car park in North Camp. The charges are very reasonable – 70p for 3 hours, 90p for 4 hours. It may be much quicker to leave after the race if parked here. From this car park it is only a 1km walk (or warmup jog) to the rugby stadium. See the car parking page for more information.

OR until it fills up you can use car park no. 6 (the Rushmoor parkrun car park) at the back of the Rugby Stadium. To reach this turn left into Princes Avenue at the traffic lights on Queen’s Avenue. Ignore the car park immediately on your right, and follow the road round to the left and to it’s end, turning left just before the barracks. The race car park is on your left after 300m (signposted ‘car park no. 6’). Please do not park in any of the other car parks in the military area.

Important: Visit our car parking page for more info including how to leave the car park!

Baggage

If you arrive by car and park in car park no. 6 we would prefer you to leave your belongings in your car, as the car park is close the Race HQ (the Athletics Stadium) and the start (Polo fields). A fully manned baggage drop will be available in the Athletics Stadium stands.

Toilets

There are toilets in the Athletics Stadium.

Start Line

Runners will be encouraged to start making their way to the start at 10.15am. The start line is across the Queen’s Avenue road on the Polo fields. Please cross Queen’s Avenue at the zebra crossing.  The start line is very wide and thin – you can line up anywhere along the marked area of path in the Polo fields – so almost everyone can be at the front!

Course

The 10k course is the same as in 2023, apart from a minor change at the end to finish in the Athletics Stadium rather than the Rugby Stadium. 10k runners do half a lap of the Polo Fields, then turn RIGHT on reaching the canal towpath.  Find out more about the course by visiting the 10k Route page.

Water

It’s best to carry your own water but some water will be available at the 5km point for emergencies. Plenty of water will be available at the finish.

Medals and Prizes

Medals are awarded to all finishers at the end of the race.

Plaques to 1st male and 1st female, to be collected at the finish. 

Free entry next year’s event to 1st senior, 1st U20, and 1st vet in categories 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70+, male and female, if there are at least 3 finishers in the category.

Results

Results will be published on this web site and also the Facebook page on Sunday evening, unless there are issues to resolve in which case they may appear the next day.