The Goole Viking Striders Hi all, a reminder, our race briefing for tomorrow is here. Please take it in if you're running.
If you're interested in an on-the-day entry, please make sure you read it carefully. We cannot take OTD entries after 10.30 due to needing to process numbers - the main race will be delayed if so and we can't afford for that to happen.
Registration will be upstairs in the Rugby Club bar. Thank you all again, look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
GVS
⚠️ Riverbank Challenge race briefing ⚠️
For anyone doing the Riverbank Challenge 2019, please see below.
First of all, thank you for entering the event; some new faces, some repeat, some who have done it for longer than they care to remember.
We trust everyone is looking forward to Sunday, the weather forecast looks better than it did at one stage so hopefully that holds.
In advance of the race, please find some very important information and timings below. Any questions, please comment or DM us. Thank you for your support, in 2020 we will be back with the new-look Riverbank Challenge 10k, on Wednesday June 3, to celebrate our club's 35th anniversary.
🚗 Car Parking and changing facilities: Available at Goole Rugby Club, Westfield Lane, Goole, DN14 5PW, from shortly after 8.30am. If you live in Goole, please try and walk/cycle to the rugby club if possible as parking isn't unlimited.
✍️ Registration and on-the-day entries: Open from 9am. We do have safety pins if you don't!!
We will have a very limited number of on-the-day entries. However, we have sold out of our main race places so anyone who takes an on-the-day entry is being told that the fee is reduced to £10, but WILL NOT include a finisher t-shirt as we simply do not have enough. The on-the-day entry covers the race, result, water and finisher cake. Those who are on-the-day will have a different type of race number so as to not confuse those giving out prizes.
Entries for the fun run close at 09:30 and for the main race at 10:30. We cannot process entries after these times.
🎧 Headphones: UKA rules prohibit the wearing of headphones on a race which takes in an open road, so please do not wear them. Marshals will instruct you to remove them.
📣 Race start: Please congregate on the main rugby field (near the finish) from 1045 onwards, before being moved on to the mass start on the Riverbank.
💧Water: Two water stops on the course (three, as you pass one twice). We are using eco cups to try and do our bit for the environment. Please dispose of them as close to the stop as you can.
🚑 Running safely and with first aid: If you need medical assistance, or feel you need to withdraw, please see a marshal at the first available opportunity.
When on the Riverbank, please remember its a multi-terrain surface, so always take extra care. The race is well signposted but, we do not have exclusive use of the bank so please be respectful of other users. Likewise, the last section of the race brings you back to the Rugby Club along the road. Please remember this is an open road. Marshals and caution signs will be present throughout but, keep right, take the grass verge when it allows and take extra care.
👕 Finish: At the finish of the race, all finishers can collect a free cake and drink. As mentioned above, only those in the allocated 250 places will take a finishers t-shirt. If you are an on-the-day entry, please do not try and claim one - those handing them out are aware of the procedure.
Please allow us some breathing space (not a pun!) on the sizes. At the time of ordering, we had 38 race entrants. As such, we had to make an educated guess on sizing and quantities, as we are a small club with limited resources. The majority are in medium and large, though we do have small, XL and XXL too.
Our finisher cakes have been provided by The Baking Room, the award-winning artisan bakery on Pasture Road. If you've not yet checked Krzysztof and his work out, please do. We're sure Sunday's offerings will have you queuing up!
🍻 Post-race drinks and food: Hot food and drinks, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, are available from our hosts at Goole Rugby Club.
📸 Photographs: Will be available, free, on the club Facebook page in the aftermath of the event.
🏅Presentation: The post-race presentation will take place upstairs at the Rugby Club at 1pm with GVS president Roger Foster. Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third male and females. Age-category prizes will be posted.
🚮 Litter: Please help us be as good a neighbour as we can, keep used gel sachets in your pockets until you dispose of them at the finish line.
‼️ Win!: As well as race prizes, we have spot prizes to give away plus, make use of our Instagram frame, upload to IG with the #rbc2019 tag and be in with a chance to win free entry to the first Goole 10k.
🧘♂️ Massage: Free massages are available for those who would like them at the end of the race from our friends and partners at Goole Sports Therapy. If you'd like to make a donation on the day, we're sure it would be appreciated.
💻 Results: Will be available as soon as possible on the club website after the race.
Thank you again for supporting the event, as mentioned above, it is turning into a 10k next year which will offer, amongst other things, chip timing. We have proudly built up the RBC in its current guise but we consider it our duty to try something new next year to try and appeal to as many people as we can.
Thank you, GVS Committee. ... See more
