The Stroke association resolution run Swindon is held in the grounds of Lydiard Park to the Western side of Swindon. 

Registration for the event is simple and entry fee is reasonable, the basis of the event is a 5K loop of the park, with runners able to enter the 5K, 10K or 15K event, a great mixture that opens it up to the whole family. Updates and emails are plentiful with the Tech T shirt (included in the entry fee) and fund raising pack all arriving pre-event. Issues with water sodden car parks were notified well in advance and dealt with well on the day, the parking fees all go to the upkeep of the house and grounds (£2.00 for 2hrs £4.00 all day). 

There is a pre-event warm up and possibly a briefing but we could not hear it, course info was posted on social media pre event. The route mainly on gravel paths and a short section on grass was well signposted with plenty of cheerful marshals with a single water and jelly baby station at around 2.5K (passed on each lap). 

The park is open to the public so in places you do encounter startled dog walkers and family's out for a Sunday stroll, this didn’t seem to cause any issues and generally added to the atmosphere.

Although for this year there was a simple timing system in place I would not consider this as a race more a fun run, the start was a little congested but this does thin out within the first K, it would be helpfull for faster runners to be nearer the front. 

The route is pleasant with a couple of minor undulations, and the support is good especially near the event hub & cafe, it does seem to be slightly under the advertised 5K, the finishers medals are good quality with the ribbons marked either 5K 10K or 15K.

All in all a great event, one for all the family, reasonably priced and in aid a very good cause its very well organised and is really friendly ,  Certainly do it again next year 

An enjoyable event raising money for a worthwhile cause. Online registration was quick and easy and you had the option of 5,10 or 15k with the t-shirt arriving a few days later. Plenty of communication from the organisers in the lead up to the event detailing changes to parking plans etc. Unfortuntely the recent weather had meant participants had to use the main car parks and required to pay £2 for 2 hours or £4 all day to the council which kind of took away from the charity element with many runners getting parking tickets.

I understand that this year saw the introduction of a timing system, which was a nice touch and not something I'd expected and results appear to be quite accurate which is good.

The course was well marshalled with plenty of support along the way. Lydiard Park was open to all so you needed to be able to naviagate around members of the public and dogs in places but not a problem as there was plenty of space.

Thank you to the lovely marshalls about 1.5km in for blasting out some music - a lovely touch! 

The course was a mix of grass and trails and despite nursing a slight injury I managed to finish in quite a good time and received a good quality medal, water and banana at the finish. 

All in all a good event and suitable for all abilities.

My 5k was only 4.7km, the 10km only came up to 9.3km and shockingly the 15k was only 13.4km - all backed up by the masses who uploaded to Strava and Garmin Connect. Not great considering the high entry fee, it might be a charity event, but people still want to run the advertised distance. There were not enough marshals on busy pedastrian areas reminding them to keep to the side of the path and dogs were running in front of runners in the busy areas, as well as footballs and small children! There was not enough warning of the start - i didn;t hear a loud speaker at all. Slower runners & walkers should have been asked to hang back, but instead, it became carneage for the first 500m.

Organised by the Stroke Organistion, the Resolution Run, or #ResRun as we were encouraged to refer to it as, returned once again to the beautiful setting of Swindon's Lydiard Park. OK, I may be a little biased here because Lydiard is the home of my local parkrun, but in the welcome Spring Sunshine that greeted us today the park was looking sublime, and a joy to be running in

This was the first time I had taken part in the event as a runner, my Wife had previously competed in 2016, and this year I joined her to help her around her first ever 10km distance. Competitors had a choice of either taking on 1, 2 or 3 laps of the course around the park (the same registration fee applied to all distances) which made up the 5k, 10k or 15k distances, For your entry fee you received a Stroke Association branded Tech Shirt to wear in the race, and a finishers medal at the end. Medals were personalised with the various distances on the ribbons.

Parking was plentiful in the grounds of the car park, and even with a large dog show and junior football competition taking place on the same day, there was room for all (again a bit biased with reporting on the smooth parking facilities as I had volunteered to marshall the car park!). There was a charge for parking, but not excessive.

Most people had pre registered and received numbers and shirt prior to the race, but there was also day entries available, a small queue for these were being promptly dealt with. No bag drop facilities, but with your car only being parked a few hundred metres from the start/finish this wasn't really an issue. A choir entertained runners prior to the start and a zumba style warm up got everybody ready to run. The pre race briefing was a little hard to hear, due to only having a very small poratble speaker and microphone, but I feel that most got the message OK.

All 3 distances started at the same time, and various paced runners started from where they found themselves lined up, so a few problems early on with faster runners trying to overtake slower runners/walkers, but a wide start area avoided any major hiccups here. It was an impressive sight to see hundreds of runners, all clad in the matching purple shirts snaking around the course

A gently undulating course around the park, mostly on gravel path, but a few sections on grass, was well marshalled by cheerful marshalls and followed part of the usual parkrun course, In took in all the glory of the park, lake and stately home. Small pockets of families and friends of runners gathered at various points on the course to cheer eveybody on.Water stations were promised at every 2,5kms, but in reality only one was set up at 5km (and 10km for the 3 lappers), the one lap runners would not have seen this as they would have already headed off the finish before hand and 10k runners would only pass once. In the hot weather this may have been a problem, but I did not witness any issues to report.

The race was not chip timed, just one large time clock at the finish, but this was not about winners and times today, it was all about raisng funds for the Stroke Association and raising awareness of the condition, there were a number of stroke survivors who bravely took on the challenge today.

Medals, banana's and much needed water were quickly handed out at the end of the race.

A really enjoyable event and for a good cause as well, worth supporting in future years. A few small problems to sort out but well organised apart from that, and for the record my wife completed her first 10k in about 12 mins faster than she had hoped for, so one happy runner here.