The Aldi “Ashby 20“, a 20-mile road running race, will be held on Sunday 19th March 2017, starting at 10am. About 1,500 runners will take part, and there are road closures for safety, for a likely maximum period from about 8am to about 3pm.
Runners come from Ashby, go down Mill Street, then do two anti-clockwise laps of the roughly-circular course shown on the map below. The anti-clockwise left side of all roads of the circle are CLOSED during the race. Roads are open in the opposite clockwise direction. In Heather village, traffic may flow alternately in both directions using Stop / Go boards. At the Bull & Lion on their second lap runners turn up High Street, Packington and on to their finish at Ashby. There is a full schedule of Road Closure details in the table below the map:
|
Place |
Roads affected |
Approximate Timings |
|
Ashby de la Zouch |
Upper Packington Road from Leicester Road to Lower Packington Road – ROAD CLOSED |
09:55 – 10:05 10 mins |
|
Ashby to Packington |
Ashby Road from Lower Packington Road to Mill Street in Packington. |
10:00 – 10:10 10 mins |
|
Packington |
Mill Street – ROAD CLOSED |
9:05 – 10:15 1 hr 10 mins |
|
Packington |
Measham Road (end of Mill Street) to Five Lane Ends |
09:00 – 12:30 3½ hrs |
|
Gallows Lane |
Gallows Lane from Five Lane Ends to Swepstone Road |
09:00 – 13:30 4½ hrs |
|
Swepstone Road to Heather |
From Gallows Lane to Main Street, Heather |
09:00 – 13:30 3½ hrs |
|
Heather |
Main Street is OPEN in BOTH directions with a 1 metre strip coned off for runners, and use of Stop/Go boards |
09:00 – 13:30 3½ hrs |
|
Heather to Normanton and Packington |
Normanton Road through Normanton to Heather Lane, Packington |
9:00 – 14:10 5 hrs |
|
Packington |
Heather Lane and Bridge St through to Measham Rd |
09:00 – 14:10 5 hrs |
|
Packington |
High Street |
09:00 – 14:15 5¼hrs |
The official Temporary Traffic Order is until 5pm and roads will close and reopen in sequence to keep the closures to a minimum duration.