Woodstock 10K
Overland Park, MO
- 10K
- Road (Paved)
- Official race website
Let your hair down and join for this fun event recalling the days of peace and love! The new Woodstock 10K will be held in Corporate Woods and will feature a groovy finishers medal and tie dye participant shirt for all registrants and far out age group and overall awards … MORE
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Rebranded middle race
So this is a "new" race. It's the middle race in a 3-race series. The old people pulled out of the old middle race. This is the same course and … MORE
So this is a “new” race. It’s the middle race in a 3-race series. The old people pulled out of the old middle race. This is the same course and still the second race in that same 3-part series, so while it says “first year” I’m going to put repeat runner down for my review.
This race occurs in a 20/80 (felt like, at least) split between the roads on a business park and the asphalt paths (double wide) in the adjoining woods. Sometimes the race is 40/60. Sometimes it’s 50/50, but for the most part there’s very little major elevation change on this out and back followed by another out and back, then a return back to the start. There are a lot of mild rolling hills and one larger one that’s only really rough in winter when it’s iced over. In September that is less of a concern.
Somehow without fail I get injured before this race. Last year it was at Rugged Maniac (RIP) and this year it was at a gravel ruck march the day before. As such, I just went out there and putted around with all the gusto of someone grocery shopping for “just the right” box of sandwich bags. It’s a necessary race to complete the series, so I couldn’t skip it, but I was in too much pain to give it much, so I put up the worst 10k time I’ve had, well…ever. The shirt and medal fit the “WoodsStock” theme (play on words). I do think it was a pretty dry course though. I was wearing a camelbak so I may have missed a water station, (or they tore it down early because I was in the last 50 or so people and just never saw it), but I think the course could have used at least one more there. I believe there were only two, but it was a humid day already and back in the woods add another 5-10%. I met up with some people I used to race with and just stayed in the back with them for the whole race, so that’s why I’m rating my performance a 2, not because the course was hard.
I love this series (Heartland 30k), so I’ll be back doing it again next year as well. Maybe one of these years I can actually not be on the injured list when I show up.