HRRL 2008 Schedule
BRAMLEY, Alton and Winchester are in, out go Mad March, Hayling and possibly Totton as part of the schedule for next year's Hampshire Road Race League.
The Stubbington 10km Race on Sunday, January 13th remains on the list of 10 races for next season which were selected at the annual meeting of the HRRL, which was held at Fleming Park Bowling Pavilion in Eastleigh earlier this month.
Organisers of the Mad March 20 in Christchurch had already indicated they did not want to stage an HRRL race next March since the event is quickly oversubscribed, and runner numbers are small. In its place, the popular Bramley 20 near Basingstoke has been restored to the list, which next year takes place on February 17th.
Also making a welcome return, this time after a year off the HRRL schedule, is the hilly but challenging Alton 10, which is scheduled for May 11th. For the first time, the Winchester 10km race, organised by Winchester & District AC, and which will be held on June 8th, 2008, has been included, making it the final race of the series.
Gone are the Hayling 10 - to ease a congested autumn period of back-to-back races around the time of the Gosport Half Marathon and the Victory 5, and possibly the Totton 10km. But the Totton race on April 6th has been held in reserve as a league event because of uncertainty over the staging for the Eastleigh 10km, which is pencilled in for March 16th.
Graham Coleman from the HRRL said: "Over 3000 runners took part last season in the ten races comprising HRRL by member club athletes. A winning formula has thus not been altered much, but account was taken of any clashes, calendar spread and suitabilty and popularity of races."
Here's the schedule:
Saturday, September 1st, 2007: Overton 5.
Sunday, October 7th: Hardley Half.
Sunday, November 18th: Gosport Half
Sunday, December 2nd: Victory 5.
Sunday, January 13th, 2008: Stubbington 10km
Sunday, February 3rd: Ryde 10.
Sunday, February 17th: Bramley 20.
Sunday, March 16th: Eastleigh 10km,
(Sunday, April 6th: Totton 10km - fallback race for Eastleigh 10km).
Sunday, May 11th: Alton 10.
Sunday, June 8th: Winchester 10km.