The Garendon Gallop 10K 2022

The Garendon Gallop 10K race is August 21st, 2022 and will start at 10:30am at Charnwood College, Loughborough LE11 4SQ.

Come along and walk, run, race, jog, enjoy the great outdoors with this stunning, traffic free, scenic course, set through the grounds of the Garendon estate. Don't miss this fantastic race, enter now online with Run Britain.

This is a one-lap course measured at 10K with a full licence, and it is chip timed. The course is off-road, mainly on track, private roads and playing fields. The course passes the Triumphal Arch, the Obelisk and the Temple of Venus. These are all 18th-century historical monuments in Garendon Park, private land between Shepshed and Loughborough. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to explore the site of Garendon Park. This is the former site of a Cistercian Abbey, founded in 1133 and dissolved by King Henry VIII in 1536. It also includes Garendon Hall, reduced to rubble in June 1964.

There are water stations along this 10k route that are on the course, and the race is fully marshalled. There are prizes for various categories. All race entries will receive a t-shirt. The venue has car parks, toilets and changing facilities.

All entries will receive a technical t-shirt. The prizes are 1st, 2nd, 3rd male and female. Also, 1st male and female age categories are over 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's.

Early bird entries of £14 affiliated and £16 unaffiliated are available until May 3rd, 2022. After this, prices will resume at £16 affiliated and £18 unaffiliated. This is a fantastic course, which has been enjoyed by all participants in the previous years. The historic monuments incorporated into the race, and the wonderful surroundings, along with the course being traffic free, make this race spectacular.

Hope to see you all at this one.