TOWN AND GOWN OXFORD Sunday 12 May 2019 10k SERIES OXFORD • CAMBRIDGE • LEICESTER
The runner’s run Professional • Chip-timed • Serious fun Race guide
Registered Charity No.205395 and Registered Scottish Charity No. SC039445 WELCOME
Hello Runner! CONTENTS GENERAL INFO P3 Your Newton Oxford Town and Gown 10k – our 38th in the series – is drawing near, and we look forward to THE RACE P5 counting down the days to the race with you. If you THE 10K ROUTE P6 signed up before 23 April you’ll have received your EVENT VILLAGE IN OXFORD race bib and baggage tag, and here’s some other really UNIVERSITY PARKS P7 useful info for you. FUN THINGS ON THE DAY P8 Good luck from us all at MDUK – and have a great race! YOUR HOSTS FOR THE DAY P9
Jessie, Town and Gown 10k Event Manager 2019 RACE PARTNERS P10 020 7803 2884 READY STEADY GO – [email protected] MEET YOUR RACE STARTER P11 @TownandGown10k
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ON THE DAY temporary toilet facilities The start and the Event Village are 8am – Event Village opens supervised baggage area, no more than a 10-minute walk 9am – Junior 3k warm-up where you can leave one bag from the city centre, so you’ll be with Buzz Gym on stage per person; put your race fine catching any bus that goes 9.15am – the 3k Junior number on your baggage tag into or near the centre. Race starts and attach it to your bag. 9.40am – 10k warm-up TRAINS with Buzz Gym on stage Please note: bag collection only The start and the Event Village are 10am – the 10k race starts with an official race number. a 20-minute walk from Oxford’s 11am – prize presentation railway station. Please factor this for all races PARKING AND DIRECTIONS time in if you’re travelling into 1pm – Event Village closes Parking in the centre of Oxford is Oxford by train. You’ll find up- extremely limited and there are to-date train information on the Buzz Gym will be giving you a no parking facilities in the Event National Rail website. great routine to warm up your Village. muscles ahead of the race. Do take PARKING part – it’ll be fun, and helpful! All the roads in the immediate Please visit the Oxford City Council area will be closed, and parking website for a list of car parks within EVENT VILLAGE restrictions will be enforced. the city centre. You’ll find our Event Village on University Parks, OX1 3RF, near the TRAVEL ADVICE cricket pavilion, with: registration marquee – for on- LOCAL BUSES the-day race pack collection Please visit the Oxford Bus and race information Company and Stagecoach websites changing facilities for men and for up-to-date travel and bus routes for women to Oxford city centre on race day.
3 ROAD CLOSURE INFORMATION Street (except buses and taxis Parking bays suspended from Roads will be closed from 8am on allowed in both directions using midnight until 12.30pm on Sunday Sunday morning until 12 noon. stop/go traffic management), 12 May: Longwall Street, Parks Most of the roads affected will be Holywell Street, Jowett Walk, Road, High Street, Broad Street, closed on a rolling closure system, Longwall Street, Magdalen Street Mansfield Road, Jowett Walk, in other words they will re-open as East, Mansfield Road, Market Norham Gardens, Fyfield Road, soon as the last runner has passed Street, Museum Road, New College Norham Road, Bradmore Road and it’s safe to do so. Parks Road, Lane, Norham Gardens, Norham however, will remain closed for the Road, Parks Road, Queens Lane, If you require further information whole event. South Parks Road, St. Cross Road, please contact us. Turl Street. These are the roads affected: Bradmore Road, Blackhall Road, To coincide with these closures, Broad Street, Catte Street, parking in certain residential Cornmarket Street, Crick Road, parking bays will also be Keble Road, Fyfield Road, High suspended.
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REFRESHMENTS AND SUPPLIERS YOUR PERSONAL AND MEDICAL Allow 15 minutes to get to the Mmm Coffee – supplying a wide DETAILS start from the Event Village. Our range of delicious hot and cold You are required to complete your compère will guide all runners beverages personal details on the back of to the start. Pats Baps – selling their popular your race number. If you have an We’ll be setting runners off in burgers and breakfast baps existing medical condition that short waves to ensure a safe The Pork Shack – selling Filipino may require special attention, such event and less congestion on wraps and vegan options as epilepsy, diabetes or a history of the course. Your chip time will ice-cream vans – for those who heart problems, mark a large cross only be recorded from the time want a treat after the race in black felt-tip pen on the front of you cross the start line. your race number. All vendors are generously Please listen carefully to the donating 10 percent of their FIRST AID compère and instructions from takings to MDUK, so do enjoy the There will be First Aid points in the marshals. great refreshments on offer. finish area, and cycle responders To minimise any disruption in roaming out along the course. the start area, faster athletes IMPORTANT RACE INFORMATION will be asked to make their way Your race number has the chip There will also be an ambulance on to the front of the first wave. attached. You will need to pin site. Time boards will indicate this to the front of your T-shirt where you should stand at the with safety pins. The chip-timing RACE SAFETY start. Please adhere to these system will record your time both Runners are asked NOT to wear positions. from when the gun goes off to the headphones while you race. This finish, and from when you cross is for your own safety and that of This year, for the first time, we will the start-line to the finish. your fellow runners, marshals and be introducing pacers to help you officials. The only headphones that get the time you want. Look out Please note the transfer deadline are acceptable are bone conductor for orange flags with the times: has now passed. For reasons of headphones. Please obey 45, 50, 55, and 60 minutes. health and safety, you may not marshalling instructions at all times. transfer your number to another person. If you do so without the THE START permission of the event organisers, This is on South Parks road, close you will be disqualified. to the Event Village.
5 THE 10K ROUTE The Grove
1km
Water Longwall St station St Cross Rd Balliol College Recreation Queens Lane
8km Jowett Walk 7km Holywell St Mansfield Rd
9km 6km High St Keble Gate Rd Parks S Event Village Main entrance University Parks Start
Parks Rd Fyfield Rd
2km Finish St Broad 3km Oxford
University Market St Market
Chick Rd Chick 5km Parks
Norham Rd Norham Bradmore Rd
Keble Rd Keble Blackhall Rd Cornmarket St 4km Water Banbury Rd
station A4144
Woodstock Rd
WATER STATIONS Please note: the finish area will be PRIZES Ensure you’re properly hydrated cordoned off and spectators will Trophies will be awarded by before the race. not be allowed to enter. Please chip-time on the day. They will There will be two stations on leave the area as soon as possible be presented in the following the route distributing water in and re-join your friends and family categories: cups: the first will be at the 4k in the Event Village. first, second and third male mark in Bradmore road, and and female the second at the 7.5k mark RESULTS first male and female in along Riverside Walk within the Results will be available on the age groups. University Parks. results page on our website a few Look out for the signage 200m hours after the event. Should a runner qualify for an before. www.townandgown10k.com/ overall winner prize and an age Water will also be provided in Oxford group prize, the overall prize will your goody bag at the finish. be awarded and the age group If you supplied your mobile prize will be offered to the next THE FINISH number on entry, you will receive a finisher. All finishers will receive a medal, text with your time, within minutes and a goody bag at the finish line. of crossing the finish line.
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BAGGAGE
FINISH FUNNEL FIRST AID
STAGE
TOILETS CHANGE REG CATERERS INFO RUNNERS DIRECTION EVENT PARTNERS PEDESTRIAN ROUTE
KEBLE GATE RUNNER ENTRANCE/EXIT FUN THINGS ON THE DAY VOLUNTEER SHOUT We are always looking for volunteers to help on the day. Do encourage your friends and family to have a look at the range of roles on offer. www.townandgown10k.com/volunteer
GO ORANGE BESPOKE EVENT T-SHIRTS We need your help to turn Oxford orange on our Town These are available to buy and and Gown 10k day. If you have a finisher shirt – or order at the event for £15. Limited anything orange – you can wear, we’d love to see it! stock available. Fancy dress is also welcome! BUZZ GYM PHOTOGRAPHY On the day Buzz Gym will be offering a mobility and There will be professional photographers along stretching zone, before and after the race. There will be the course and at the finish. You’ll be able to foam rollers, balls, bands and mats for people to use. buy photographs after the event from They’ll also have some post and pre-workout snacks for www.sussexsportphotography.com all the runners.
SOCIAL MEDIA BOUNCY CASTLE Do shout about your achievement at the race! When you There will be a children’s bouncy castle in the event village, do, our hashtag is #townandgown10k and our charity open throughout the morning. Bring some change! hashtag is #EveryDayCounts MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY UK (MDUK) FOLLOW US: Race charity: don’t forget that the Town and Gown 10k Twitter: @TownandGown10k series is funded and organised entirely by us, MDUK. We Facebook: facebook.com/TownandGown10k encourage all of our runners to fundraise to help beat Instagram: @musculardystrophyuk muscular dystrophy. Look out for our social media boards and take some fun If you haven’t done so already, set up a JustGiving page photos! by visiting justgiving.com
RAFFLE For more information on the work of the charity and Raffle tickets will be available to buy on the day, so bring how, by taking part in this event, you’re helping us beat some loose change with the chance to receive free entry muscle-wasting conditions, please visit: to another event as well as other small prizes including www.musculardystrophyuk.org theatre tickets, signed memorabilia, dinner vouchers and champagne. To make a donation to MDUK please visit www.townandgown10k.com/donate
8 YOUR HOSTS FOR THE DAY
Gabby Logan Bollywood Entertainer Jay Kumar MDUK President and race starter Your Event Village compère
BBC Radio Oxford’s Andrew Self Rhodri Brown Your race starter compère MDUK’s race starter, alongside Gabby Logan
9 2019 RACE PARTNERS
Newton is proud to be headline sponsor for the Oxford Town and Gown 2019. During the event we’ll be handing out free sweet treats and water bottles to all race participants, so make sure you visit us by the finish line. Based near Abingdon, Newton isn’t like other consultancies or employers. We work on projects across a range of industries and of national significance. Our business model is purposefully disruptive. Our culture is vibrant, energetic and individual. We hire extraordinary people and give them levels of responsibility to match. Our philosophy is simple: if you don’t limit yourself, we won’t limit you.
North Oxford BMW is looking We’re delighted to have Buzz forward to seeing you at our Gym Oxford join us as an official activation stand where we will partner. Their personal trainers have some of the latest models will be warming you up before from across the range. Pop along the race and they will be on hand and chat to our team. with a cool-down area post-race. Good luck to all of the runners.
10 PAROD YN GYSON OR `READY STEADY GO’
Four-year-old Rhodri Brown from Barry in South “My parents will be running with me and we have Glamorgan is your 2019 race starter. He was ramped up the training in recent weeks as this will diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy be our first 10k and actually our first charity run. just before his fourth birthday, earlier this year. “Rhodri is super excited about starting the race and His father James, and grandparents Dean and will have his amazing, loving and supportive sister, Beverley Griffiths, have responded by launching a Cerys Morgana, who is seven, by his side throughout fundraising page and taking on their first-ever run. the day cheering on Dad, Nanny and Grandad,” said They’ll all be joining you in the Newton Oxford James. Town and Gown 10k. Beverley, who lives in North London with husband “Despite me and my wife Delor being in a dark place Dean, said: “I really hate running and have never for several months after the diagnosis, we have done anything like this before. But my son and his made a conscious decision to be positive. To that wife have had a terrible shock and as a family we will end, we feel that with over 50 clinical trials going on do everything we can to support them. worldwide for Duchenne, we have a reason to be hopeful for the future. “Dean is in slightly better shape for the run as he regularly uses the treadmill at the local gym.”
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