Club Championships – Reading Roadrunners

Date		Race	Distance	Terrain
Feb	26	Wokingham	Half	Road
March	12	Goring	10K	Road
April	07	Maidenhead Easter 10	10 miles	Road
May	14	Marlow 5	5 miles	Road
May	21	Binfield	10K	Road
June	04	Dorking 10	10 Miles	Road
June	18	Hampshire Hoppit	Half	MT
July	02	Didcot 5	5 Miles	Road
Aug	03	Yateley 10k series	10K	Road
Aug	27	Headington 5	5 miles	Road
Sep	24	Windsor	Half	Road
Oct	15	Frieth Hilly	10K	MT
Oct	29	New Forest 10	10 miles	Road

You’ll be ranked in each race according to your finishing position relative to other club members in your age-gender category. The first member home scores 50 points, the second member 49 points, etc. Even if you’ve scored a good result at a distance, it’s a good tactic to enter the other races in the same distance to prevent other members scoring equally well.
Note that your age category is set for the whole championship on 1st January. So, for example, a man reaching his 60th birthday sometime after 1 January competes in the MV50 category throughout the championship.

Marathon Championship

The format of the Marathon Championship is the same as recent years: rather than nominate specific races you can enter marathons of your choice anywhere in the world. If you want your result to count, make sure it’s recorded in the monthly results report or mail it to champs@readingroadrunners.org if it was missed. The member recording the fastest result in each age-gender category during the season will be declared the category winner. Your age category is fixed according to your age on 1st January.
The season runs from 1Jan to 31Dec.

Age categories

For both Championships the age categories are as follows:

Men	Senior	MV40	MV50	MV60	MV70	MV80
Women	Senior	FV40	FV50	FV60	FV70	FV80

Please read the rules below and if anything is unclear, please seek clarification at champs@readingroadrunners.org.

Awards

Trophies will be awarded in each age-gender category in each championship, to be presented at the 2023 Club dinner dance.

Road & Multi-terrain Championship Rules

The rules are straightforward:

To qualify you need to record a result in at least one race at each distance
If you run more than one race at the same distance, only your best result counts towards your Championship score
You’re competing against members in your own age-gender category, as stated above:
Your Championship age category is determined by your age on 1 January
Within each age-gender category, the fastest club finisher scores 50 points, the next fastest 49 points, and so on
There’s one additional category that groups all members together and awards points based on age grade
For your race result to qualify for the Championship you must run in Club colours and have registered your entry as affiliated to Reading Roadrunners
Times will be based on individual chip times rather than gun times, where provided

Marathon Championship Rules

The Marathon Championship rules are also very straightforward:

You can choose to run any marathon event anywhere in the world
You can record as many results as you like during the year
Your result needs to be recorded in the Club results report or mail it to champs@readingroadrunners.org, if it was missed
You’re competing against members in your own gender-age category, as stated above
Your championship age category is determined by your age on 1 January
The winner of each age-gender category will be the member recording the fastest finishing time for a marathon during the season
The results claimed by the winners in each category will be verified and the winners announced following the end of the season
Times will be based on individual chip times rather than gun times, where provided

Note: The term “marathon” herein refers to the official marathon distance of 42.195Km.

Bob Thomas
Championship organiser
January 2022