Normally the third Tuesday night in July. A fun event for club members only, where in a combined 5K race, men and women compete for separate awards in a run around beautiful Highgate Woods.
The format is that the slower runners start off the course a pre-determined number of minutes and seconds before the scratch runners. This time is their handicap time and is assigned by the handicapper who bases his estimates on recent form and is completely unmoved by tales of injury, illness, training woes unless they are written on the back of a large denomination banknote.
The idea being that the faster runners chase the slower runners trying to catch them before the finish line. If the handicapper has done his job accurately AND everyone runs to perfect form, they should all reach the finish line together!
The evening normally ends in a prize-giving ceremony in the nearby Woodman pub.
