1500M and 5K POWER WALK 2023
5K POWER WALK
Saturday, September 23
Entry Deadline: September 9
Meet at Helmerich Park
75th and Riverside
7301 South Riverside Drive
Tulsa, Oklahoma
EVENT
5K Power Walk
Check In: 8:15 am
Event starts: 8:45 am
FORMAT
- The course is five times around the flat 1K loop on the river trail.
- Power Walk athletes must use proper power-walking techniques or risk disqualification.
- Power Walk race numbers must be worn on the front and back and must be visible at all times.
EVENT DIRECTOR
Jim McFadden
918-978-6847
1500 M POWER WALK
In conjunction with the OSG Track and Field Meet at N Rock Creek High School in Shawnee
Saturday, September 30
Entry Deadline: September 16
North Rock Creek High School
42400 Garrett’s Lake Road
Shawnee, OK 74804
EVENT
1500 M Power Walk
Check In at 1:15 pm
Event starts: 2:15 pm
FORMAT
- 1500M Power Walk will be 3.75 laps on a standard 400 Meter track.
- Power Walk athletes must use proper power-walking techniques or risk disqualification.
- Power Walk race numbers must be worn on the front and back and must be visible at all times.
EVENT DIRECTOR
Regina Stewart
(405) 802-4491
SPORT RULES for both the 5K and 1500M POWER WALK EVENTS
- All Power Walking events will be conducted in accordance with USPWA rules, except as modified herein. For a copy of these rules, please visit or contact:
United States Power Walking Association
Doug & Marianne Hamilton, Administrators
(408) 205.9641
- Power Walk is a Monitored Event: Power Walk is a monitored event in which an athlete can be disqualified. Power Walking, while very similar to Race Walking, does not have the same technical requirements.
- Major points of the rules include:
- a) One foot must be on the ground at all times. Loss of contact with the ground is forbidden.
- b) Each advancing foot strike must be heel to toe at all times. Striking with the toe or ball of the advancing foot is considered running.
- c) Creeping, where the lead toe strikes prior to the heel and knee are bent into a running form is forbidden.
- d) A slightly bent knee is the accepted form but a bent knee in a running or jogging form is forbidden.
- e) Running or jogging mode is forbidden.
- f) Any violation in the last 100 meters as determined by a single judge is reason for immediate disqualification.
- g) The advancing leg as it moves forward (and when the heel strikes) the ground; it does not have to be completely locked as it passes under the body. Soft knee is acceptable; however, over excessive bent knee is deemed to be in a creeping or running shuffle is not acceptable and subject to disqualification.
- h) Unsportsmanlike conduct can result in disqualification by the judges, monitor or race official.
- i) Disqualification will result when an athlete is judged to be in violation of the above rules in three separate instances by three separate officials or monitors or the race director during the course of the race competition.
2023 is not a qualifying year for National Senior Games competition