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The London 10,000 is an annual road running event over 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) which takes place in late May in London, United Kingdom. Established in 2008, the race goes through the roads of St. James's Park and finishes on the mall by Buckingham Palace. [1] VitalityHealth took over sponsorship in 2016 from the original sponsor BUPA. [2]
The 10K run is a long-distance road running competition over a distance of ten kilometres (6.2 miles). Also referred to as the 10K road race, 10 km, or simply 10K, it is one of the most common types of road running event, alongside the shorter 5K and longer half marathon and marathon.
Time Athlete Date Place Ref 30:29 Asmae Leghzaoui (MAR) 8 June 2002 New York City, United States 30:01 Agnes Jebet Tirop (KEN) 12 September 2021 Herzogenaurach, Germany [3] 29:24 Agnes Ngetich (KEN) 10 September 2023 Brașov, Romania [4]
The 10-mile run is a long-distance running event over a distance of ten miles (16.1 kilometres). It can be held on a road course or on a running track. Also referred to as a 10-miler or 10 miles run, it is a relatively common distance in countries that use the mile as a unit of measure.
In 2005, the route around the Isle of Dogs between 22 and 34 kilometres (14 and 21 mi) was switched from a clockwise to an anti-clockwise direction, and at 35 km (22 miles) the route was diverted to avoid St Katherine Docks and the cobblestoned area near the Tower of London. In 2008, a suspected gas leak at a pub in Wapping diverted the course ...
Timperley, United Kingdom 100 km: 6:10:20 Don Ritchie: 28 August 1976 London, United Kingdom [23] 100 miles: 11:30:51+ Don Ritchie: 15 August 1977 London, United Kingdom 24 hours: 281.303 km Matt Field 25 August 2024 Gloucester 24hr Track Gloucester, England [24] 48 hours: 401.208 km Richard Brown: 9 May 1991 Surgères, France 110 m hurdles: 12 ...
The 10,000-metre track race is usually distinguished from its road running counterpart, the 10K run, by referring to the distance in metres rather than kilometres. The 10,000 metres is the longest standard track event, approximately equivalent to 6 miles 376 yards or 32,808 feet 5 inches.
In 1978 the cost of converting road signs from miles to kilometres in the United Kingdom was estimated to be between £7.5 million and £8.5 million. [100] In 2005 The Department for Transport (DfT) costed the replacement of all of the United Kingdom's road signs in a short period of time at between £565 million and £644 million. [101]