It is May, the days are warming and soon the air will be thick with the smell of lilacs. Which means it is time for the Main Street Mile – “Your Fastest Mile of the Year!“.

“But wait!” you cry out. “We are not going to all huddle together on the starting line! Much as I would like to sprint for 1609 meters, I’m just not doing it in a crowd – not this year!”

Wise words!

So UVRC is pairing up with the Hanover Rec Department to provide a “Virtual Mile Race”. It is still a race with prizes and bragging rights. It is still a mile, on the same course we have always used. But we will not all run it together.

The way this works is that you can run the course at any time between Monday, May 11th and midnight Sunday, May 19th (the race would normally have been May 14th).

There are two ways to participate;

1. Use your GPS running watch and upload your times to Strava. If anyone runs the “Main Street Mile Segment”, they will show up on the leader board for that week.
2. If you are not a Strava user, you can still run the course, and then just email in your times to Hanover Rec. We actually trust you to self report your times.

You do need to register, but it is free!
https://www.hanoverrec.com/info/activities/program_details.aspx?ProgramID=30346

I’ll be posting more detailed information about the starting line, finishing line and course in the near future.

For those of you who want to look over past performances on this course, go to https://www.strava.com/segments/23595530