16th 'Vipava Run' 2011

Vipava (Slovenia), Saturday 2 April 2011

The Vipavski tek attracts around 300 runners to the fruit- and wine-growing Vipava Valley in Slovenia's Mediterranean Primorska region.

Participants run 8.5km of an undulating course which takes them (mostly on gravel roads) through farmland and vineyards and around the 17th-century Zemono manor house (pictured above).

The start and the finish are on the athletics track of Vipava, a very pretty little town with a picturesque ruined 12th-century castle towering above it.

In 2010, the fastest finishers were Urban Jereb and Melita Šinkovec.

The town of Vipava sits in the Vipava Valley in the Primorska region in Slovenia.

Country: Slovenia

Venue (Map): Vipava (Trieste 39km, Udine 70km, Ljubljana 75km)

Date: 2 April 2011 (Saturday)

Race distance: 8.5km; children 300-2000m

Start time: 13.00 (children), 15.00 (8.5km)

Start and finish: Športni park Vipava

Entries: on the day from 11.00 until 15 minutes before the start

Entry fees: 10 euros; children 2 euros

You get (8.5km): a souvenir gift, drinks, a meal after the race

Prizes (8.5km): trophies to the first 5 M/F; medals to the first 3 in each category

Prizes (children): medals to the first 3 in each category

Award ceremony: soon after each race

Number of finishers 2010: 170 (8.5km), 108 children

Event details (in Slovene): www.td-burja.com

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