2025 Club Championship

There are a few changes to the format for the 2025 Club Championship:

As before, your best 7 out of 14 races count towards your total score. You must do 3 ‘off-road’, 3 ‘road’ and new for this year, to add variety, you must do one race categorized as ‘fell’. Of course you can do more, but your total score will be the sum of the points from your fastest 3 ‘road’ plus your fastest 3 ‘off-road’ plus your fastest ‘fell’. We’ll be kind and include some nice short, fun, summer fell races for those who may be a little concerned by this.

Another change for 2025 is that you are going to be able to race your peers, similarly paced to you, to fight for the divisional crown. We will introduce divisions as an additional competition within the Club Championship. Which division you race in will be based on your fastest 5K time in the past 2 years (since 1-Jan-2023) and will be fixed for the duration of 2025. So get digging out those stats from all of your parkruns and submit your fastest time here before 5 January 2025 (please):

https://forms.gle/5xR9RGXYajuYbdgy8

Bonus Races

There will be also be two 'bonus' races next year. The first bonus race will be any official distance marathon throughout the year.

We understand that marathons can be daunting and covering 26.2 miles is bloody hard work but we’d like to inspire more Harriers to give it a go. So with this in mind, in addition to the standard on and off road marathons, we will be accepting virtual marathon times (see small print below). So if you’ve always fancied doing a marathon but been put off by the price/cut-off times/transport etc, this will give you the opportunity to do it your way.

The second bonus race will be announced early next year.

It is hoped that the championship gets us together - providing opportunities to socialise and foster a camaraderie at events we enjoy. The championship attempts to deliver variety - a range of distances and event types in order to boost enthusiasm for running and an opportunity to try new races we may have not thought about trying before. Just a reminder of what our first 3 races are:

Jan
GLCL XC - Parc Bryn Bach - 2nd February
Make sure you have a GLCL number/chip. You can check here:
https://sites.google.com/site/glclrunning/home/entry-registration


Feb

Pen Tir Drop, Sunday 16th Feb 2025, 2PM - FELL Your first chance to get a fell in the bag with this 4.2 mile yomp in the hills. £6 https://www.fabian4.co.uk/default.aspx?EventID=3578 Note, as with most fell races you do need to carry some specific items of kit. If you don’t have any, ping on Facebook and I’m sure people have plenty spare that you can borrow.

March

Merthyr Half Marathon, Sunday 17th Mar 2025 - ROAD Your first chance to pound the tarmac and get some early season miles in. £33 https://www.merthyrhalfmarathon.co.uk/merthyr-half-marathon/


Apr
Magnificent 7 Eastnor Castle, Sunday 6th April. 11am. Website for info here
Enter here: https://www.entrycentral.com/Mag7-2025 

May 

June 

July 

August 

September 

October 

November

December


BONUS RACES