Here is a summary of everything you need to know about the club’s priority races for Summer 2020, and the awards to be won.  If you have any queries, contact Andy Howarth

Scoring

Grand Prix Points

• Separate Male and Female competitions
• Every runner scores 10 points for each race they finish
• Bonus of 25 points to 1 point for the first 25 Stragglers in each race
• Max score for each race is 35
• Your best 4 scores for each race are totalled – max possible score is 140
• Minimum 4 races to win an award

Grand Prix Awards

• Male and female with the highest number of points
• Male and female hero (for running the most races)
• Highest age-grade performance for men and women in any race
• Winners and runners up in each of the following categories:
  • Senior Women, F35, F45, F55, F65
  • Senior Men, M40, M50, M60, M70
• Most improved male and female runner

Stragglers Championship Races

In addition to the Grand Prix, there are the internal Club Championship races at different distances. There are four individual Club Championship races:

• 5k Wimbledon Dash (Sun 9 Aug)
• Club 10k - Hawker Centre (Thurs 2 July)
• 10 Miles – Thames Towpath 10 (Sun 19 April)
• Half-Marathon - Richmond (Sun 10 May)

Details of Stragglers Championship Race awards will be added later.

Surrey Road League

This is a team and individual competition and is separate from the Summer Grand Prix which is an internal Stragglers competition. Some of the races in the Grand Prix are also part of the Surrey Road League. For individuals and team scores it will be the best five scores to count.  More information can be found on the Surrey Road League website. The following races are part of the Surrey Road League:

• Richmond Half Marathon (Sun 10 May)
• Sutton 10k (Sun 17 May) (not in Grand Prix)
• Dorking 10 miles (Sun 7 June) (not in Grand Prix)
• Richmond 10km (Sun 21 June)
• Elmore 7 miles (Sat 18 July)
• Elmbridge 10km (Sun 26 July)
• Wimbledon Dash 5km (Sun 9 August)

UPDATE: The full list of races included in the Summer Grand Prix is shown below. You can find links to these and other key races in the Key Race Fixtures here.

 

2020	Race	Location	Stragglers Championship	Surrey Road League Race	Notes
Sun 19 April	Thames Towpath 10	Chiswick/ Kew	10-mile Championship		Club pay entry for 30
Sun 10 May	Richmond Half	Richmond	Half-marathon Championship	Yes	Enter here
Sat 30 May	Mob match v Wimbledon Windmilers (TBC)	Bushy parkrun & Tiltyard Cafe			Free 5k
Sun 21 June	Richmond 10k	Ham		Yes	Enter here
Sat 27 June	Mob match v Ranelagh	Old Deer Park parkrun			Free 5k
Thu 2 July	Club 10k	Hawker Centre	10k Championship		Free entry
Sun 5 July	Claygate Country 5 (mob match & picnic v 26.2)	Claygate			5 miles
Sat 11 July	Mob match v Ealing Eagles	Osterley parkrun			Free 5k
Sat 18 July	Elmore 7	Chipstead		Yes	7 miles Club to pay entry for 40 (tbc)
Sun 26 July	Elmbridge 10k	Walton-on-Thames		Yes	Enter here
Fri 31 July	Wedding Day 7k	Bushy Park			7k
Sun 9 Aug	Wimbledon 5k Dash	Wimbledon Park	5k Championship	Yes	5k