Junior Dash 2K
Sun 13 Oct 2024 Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK Entries closed

Leeds Abbey Dash | Age UK | Junior Dash 2K

Join the Leeds Abbey Junior Dash this October! A fantastic event for junior runners, aged 8 to 14, which takes place just before the main 10K race. Sign up because it wouldn’t be the same without you!

  • Sun 13 Oct 2024
  • Entries closed
Millennium Square, Leeds

Junior Dash 2K

09:00

Age 8-14

£11.52

  • 2 km road running

Event overview

The Leeds Abbey Dash 10K for Age UK is back for yet another successful year!

Take up the challenge this autumn and tackle a flat and fast 10K route from Millennium Square and follow the line of the River Aire to the remarkable Kirkstall Abbey before returning to the centre of Leeds.

The Junior Dash 2K starts before the main 10K event and ensures that all the family are catered for.

runners

Highlights

  • Well-established in the running calendar as an annual favourite
  • A grand city centre start and finish from Millenium Square itself
  • Mass warm up to get the atmosphere going
  • Run in the city along the line of the River Aire to Kirkstall Abbey
  • Flat, fast and perfect for a PB
  • Wheelchair 10K and Junior Dash 2K on the same day
  • Incentives for fundraisers including a free snood and bobble hat!
  • Help Age UK be there for older people across the UK

This event is part of Leeds Abbey Dash | Age UK.

Event video

  • All fitness levels
  • Newcomers
  • Spectators

Timetable

  • 07:45 | Baggage and information tents open
  • 09:00 | Elite wheelchair 10K event starts
  • 09:00 | Junior 2K event starts
  • 09:30 | 10K event starts
  • 12:00 | Event closes

  • Accommodation
  • Bag storage
  • Bar
  • Cafe
  • Paid parking
  • Restaurant
  • Toilets
  • Urban

Event HQ

Millennium Square
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS2 3AD
UK

  • Flat
  • Marshals
  • Traffic free
  • Way markers

Parents can run with their Juniors around the 2k course. They wonโ€™t have a race number or get a finishing time, but can go around the course with their Junior.

Sustainability

  • Public transport links

The Junior 2K is back! Part of Age UK's Leeds Abbey Dash 10K, raising money for vulnerable older people in Yorkshire and across the UK. 

  • Age 8-14
  • Enter online

Parents can run with their Juniors around the 2k course. They wonโ€™t have a race number or get a finishing time, but can go around the course with their Junior.

Heard so much about the Leeds Abbey Dash that I decided decided to travel from Ireland to experience the race firsthand for myself and wasn't disappointed. A fantastic race with a carnival atmosphere all morning - even the rain didn't dampen people's spirits. The organisers were brilliant with any questions I had prior to traveling. I've no doubt the Leeds Abbey Dash will be a permanent fixture on my race calender over the coming years. Couldn't recommend this race enough - roll on October 2023. Michael H

Oh the Leeds Abbey Dash was thoroughly enjoyed yet again by our team of 40 runners - we'll definitely enter next year! Charis H

Great race, rolling course but very fast. Josh L

It’s a mainly fast and flat route. The support from marshalls, locals and other runners along the route is amazing. The t shirt and medal at the finish is well worth it. Would certainly recommend this event and look forward to doing it again. Mandy M

Great run, great atmosphere, can’t fault! James R

I’ve come to love the Abbey Dash and this was the 3rd time I’ve entered. It allows a fast run for those capable. It’s busy but fun and sociable. Martin B

This was my first race, and I absolutely loved it. It's a great course to ease you into races as it is flat apart from a mini incline at the end. Great support and a great lead-up. Lindsay B

Great race, impeccably organised every year. The course is an out and back with very mild undulations, making it a serious PB contender course if you are at that end of the race, and good way to ease into the running scene if you are new and giving your first race a go. The cost is very competitive and the field being so large every year makes it feel like you are part of something giving the push needed to eek out those last few km’s with everything you’ve got. The only race I try to run every year. Robin B

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£30.49-£32.60

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