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A big thank you to Kim Cavill, co-founder of Cavill Coaching in Malton, who delivered two inspiring and motivating assemblies to the students of Ryedale School on Monday 5th February. 

Kim spoke to the students about not being remotely sporty at school and remembered when she was asked to join the secondary hockey team to ‘make up numbers’. Kim’s first running race was a Race for Life in her early 20s which led to her joining her local running club. 

She has since competed in many races with lots of top 10 finishes and 1st Lady wins, including the local Hardmoors 50, 60, 110 and 160 events.

Kim spoke passionately about the fact that you don’t need to be a ‘sporty kid’ to be able to run – running is for everyone. 

Kim’s presentation was followed by a talk about the 4K Race at Kirkbymoorside’s 10K on Sunday 5th May – a race for anyone from Year 7 students upwards, including individual medals and prizes for the best team score and best dressed team.

If you are interested in finding out more about Kim Cavill, Cavill Coaching or would like to speak to them about bespoke coaching please visit: www.cavillcoaching.com

The children at Kirkbymoorside Primary are already in training for the Dash and the 1 Mile events! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️

Running Club is very well attended and takes place every morning on the school field for 15 minutes before school starts. 

Music is played through a PA system🎵 so the children feel motivated and they really get into it!

Around 50 children run with the club each morning.  Its a great start to the school day for them. What a great club! 💪

Anna Aspery

Entries for the 20th running of the Kirkbymoorside 10K are now open!

We’re really excited to bring you the best event yet in 2020 and look forward to welcoming back those that have run this fantastic road race before as well as introducing new runners to our amazing event.

As in previous years, we have adopted a staggered price banding. For an event of this size, cash flow is hugely important to ensuring we stage a safe and well-managed race. To encourage as many people to enter early as possible we have an early-bird price that runs from 1st November to the 31st December – this is just £19*.

From 1st January through to 31st March the entry fee is £22*. Hopefully, we’ll have filled the race by then, but if not, entries from 1st April through to 30th April will be £24*.

*UKA affiliated runners benefit from a £2 discount. On-line processing fee of 99p applies.

They’ve arrived!

Dave, our race director, was super excited today to get his hands on the first ever Kirkbymoorside 10K event t-shirt.

The shirts, kindly sponsored by Marshall Advanced Composites, will be handed out to all the runners who come to collect their race number from the registration hall on Sunday 6th May. We’re hoping that some of the runners choose to wear their t-shirt for the race itself.

We’ve worked hard to make improvements to the event and that includes providing our runners with additional memorabilia. We’re very grateful for the support of Marshall Advanced Composites for sponsoring the shirts. We confident the runners are going to love them and I’m hoping to see plenty of locals wearing them for training runs in the years to come.

As well at t-shirts for our 500 fantastic runners in our sell-out race, Runner Print Winner have also sent us some “Volunteer Edition” version of the shirt. You will be able to see our fantastic event staff sporting these on race day.

Will you be wearing yours?

We have some fantastic news – the Kirkbymoorside 10K has sold out for the second year running!

Entries have piled in throughout April with a total of 170 in just 24 days. This means that over a third of our 500 runners entered this month. The running community like to keep it last minute, I guess.

Local Runners

We set a target each year of having at least 10% of our runners coming from the local area. We define the “local area” as an address in either Kirkbymoorside, Gillamoor or Fadmoor. We’re pleased to see that we achieved this with exactly 50 of our runners qualifying as local and therefore eligible for our local runner first prizes.

The first female and male local runners each win a Lemon Tree Fish & Chips voucher and a bottle of locally produced Kirkby-Moor-Cider.

Running Clubs

Once again we have a strong contingent coming from a variety of running clubs from the length and breadth of the country. York Knavemire Harriers lead the way with a massive 41 entries. Quakers RC (from the North East) follow with 24 entrants, and the third largest club represented is Scarborough Athletic Club with 18 runners.

Click here for a full list of running clubs represented

A few stand-out clubs names are Aberdare Valley Aac from south Wales, Kings College London Athletics And Cross Country Club (that’s a long name), and British Library Boston Spa Ac.

Unaffiliated Runners

Of course, our race is for people of all abilities. We’re open to both club and non-club runners and this year over 60% of our runners are not from running clubs – 306 entrants to be precise.

To celebrate this group of runners we have a new award for the first female and male unaffiliated runners. The two winners will each receive a bespoke commemorative plate made by local artist Liz Bailey.

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We’re looking forward to welcoming everyone to Kirkbymoorside on Sunday 6th May and hope all our runners have a great race and that the crowds cheer them to the last.