2014 on-line entry is closed there is no reserve list

No further transfers. No transfers on the day

A email was sent to all participants 02/11/14 however due to a server error you may have received more than 1 copy or none. Sorry another 

Race packs are to be collected on Race day. Nothing will be sent out in the post.  A full list of race participants can be found above. 

WARNING: Mud not optional and its getting deeper!!

Presented by Bitton Road Runners, The Easy Runner Sodbury Slog is quite simply not for the faint-hearted! Forget roads - they're for wimps - this is a lung-busting, trainer-ruining, hill-climbing, multi-terrain challenge held over and through some of South Gloucestershire's most stunning countryside.

Attracting around 1300 runners annually the route uses the same paths, fields, ditches and mudbaths since it's original inception in 1990. The race always coincides with Remembrance Sunday and is preceded by exhortation, a two minute silence and playing of the Last Post, which sets the scene for a memorable day. The race is then started at 11:05.

For general information about the race, arrangements at the HQ and start/finish details click here.

For details of designated parking areas click here.

Bitton Road Runners  - Sodbury Slog 2014 sponsored by  Easy Runner Bristol

The Race Director walked the course this morning and it is very boggy, worse than last year! In a number of places the water is at or above wellie depth!  

We’ve made a few amendments to the course this year, in particular coming off the common. Please don’t assume you know the route, follow the marshals directions at all times.

To keep costs down we are not sending race packs in the post. Numbers and chips are to be collected on race day. Please allow extra time for this. The Runners Village will be open from 9am for number collection, changing, baggage drop, tea, coffee, cake, bacon butties etc.

By popular demand Terry the Tornado will be doing the warm up again this year starting at 10.40.

As its Remembrance Sunday, following the warm up will be the exhortation, a two minute silence and the playing of the Last Post. The race starts at 11:05. Poppies will be available on the day.

Full details of participants, directions, car parking, etc. can be found on the Full on Sport web site. Click Here.

There is plenty of parking in and around the Race Village. Please park sensibly and legally if not using the race car parks.

Bitton Road Runners are proud to be working with the Macmillan Cancer Support Charity.  If you would like to raise money for this worthwhile charity please contact Alice.young@macmillan.org.uk

Have a great race, run safe.

No further emails will sent out.

Enjoy the Slog

The Course

The route is varied. Starting from Chipping Sodbury School, running along the wide High Street and onto Sodbury Common; here's where the mud starts, the common is very marshy even in summer, and becomes very wet and boggy in November making the going especially tough.

Through the hamlet of Little Sodbury End into Tungrove Farm. A few watery excursions later and you are climbing towards the Cotswold Way, into the tree-lined drive of Little Sodbury Manor running past the Manor House then up through the woods on the Cotswold Way across the Roman encampment at Old Sodbury, following the Cotswold Way down to Hardwoodgate Farm.

Strategically placed bales of hay provide ideal obstacles where gates would normally grace your passage (leaving them open would just be too easy). All of which add to the spectacular scenery on the run and make it unique. A short road run takes you back to the school in a distance of 9 country miles.