The Races
The Chippenham Harriers 2025 Club Championships will begin Saturday 1st February 2025 and we are happy to announce the races and format. Points for next year’s Open & Masters Club Championships will be awarded up to and including Sunday 26th October. This gives us time to compile the results prior to the big reveal at the 2025 Christmas Party.
This year the committee have increased the opportunities to score points, whilst keeping the costs of entry fees to a minimum. We hope you enjoy the range of events and the opportunity to experience some competitive racing in Wiltshire.
Best 10 of 14 events:
As ever we have a competition to encourage support of local events…
| Race Reference | Event / Race | Date |
| Race #1 | Your Best Park Run (anywhere) | Feb-Oct |
| Race #2 | Your Best Half Marathon time (anywhere) | Feb-Oct |
| Race #3 | Your Best Marathon time (anywhere) | Feb-Oct |
| Race #4 | Best Lacock Relay time | tbc |
| Race #5 | Best Trust10 (Avebury 10k) – free, turn up and run post times on FB | tbc |
| Race #6 | Harriers 1 Mile Time Trial – Peckingell | tbc |
| Race #7 | Best DBMax 1 Mile series | TBC |
| Race #8 | Best time in Heddington 5k Series | TBC |
| Race #9 | Westbury 5k Series (AVR) | tbc |
| Race #10 | Hazelbury Hurrah! (10k trail) | tbc |
| Race #11 | SmarTT Smasher | 16th Feb ENTER HERE |
| Race #12 | Longest Day 10k (Chippenham) | mid-Jun |
| Race #13 | Broadtown 5 Mile | tbc |
| Race #14 | 1st WORRL | tbc |
Named Races and Race Series (including Lacock)
Where a race is specifically named (either one-off or series) I will collect the results from the organisers and match the results to the members list, regardless of whether you added your club on your entry. Below are the instructions for the exceptions to this. Please try to use a consistent name when entering races to make the task easier.
Parkrun
For parkrun, please can you all ensure you are registered as Chippenham Harriers as your club. This will mean we can pick up the timings and promote our club.
Avebury 10k (National Trust)
This event is not officially timed, please can you send a Strava or similar link so we can pick up the results, or post on the Facebook page after the event. This worked reasonably well last year from the Facebook postings.
Best Half Marathon and Best Marathon
Simply send a link to the official results of the race, the location/date and your name to .
I will also collect results automatically from event where there is a significant presence from our club (such as the Chippenham Half and London Marathon etc.). Please, do not assume I have collected your time though.
Rules
Rules are published on the website and can be found from the menu under Club Championships, in summary there will be the usual two categories and the two age adjusted categories.
Points
Points will be based on relative position in each race amongst fellow club members starting at 30 points for 1st, down to no less than 5 points for finishing. Points are accumulated for each race and assuming you complete all races the worst two scores will be dropped. So you do not have to enter all races to get maximum points.
Abstaining
If you do not wish to be in the Championship for any reason, please message me or contact the committee. You will need to be a paid club member at the end of the season to be eligible for a prize.
We look forward to seeing you all at the races! (and parkrun)