The RRC Championships

    The History of RRC Championships

    The RRC has a long history of organising its own championships races, but increasingly our championships have been hosted by other existing races, and we no longer organise our own races.

    We currently have a series of championships at the main sub-ultra distances (marathon and below) and also a single ultra-distance championship, at 100 km.

    Ultra distance Championships

    The RRC's blue riband ultra race for 55 years was the world-famous London to Brighton. Road conditions have made this great race impossible to organise any longer, although the club is actively pursuing various possibilities of a replacement race and we give support both to the Dartmoor Discovery and to Pam Storey's track ultra races at Crawley.

    There is an RRC 100 km Championship, which was hosted this year (2009) at the Celtic 100 km race in Galway (Roadrunner article here) and the RRC also promotes the Anglo-Celtic Plate, originated by our former Chairman John Foden, and competed for by teams from the four "home" countries England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. This was also held at the Galway Celtic 100 km event in 2009.

    We hold annual championships, hosted by local races, at 10 mile, Half marathon and Marathon distances, and these are enthusiastically competed for by our more active members. As far as possible, we move the race round the country, although there is an undeniable bias towards the South-East of England, simply because that is where most of the Council members live, and they have to attend the races.

    The 2009 Sub-Ultra Championships were held at:

    Half Marathon 23rd August Burnham Beeches Results of the race
           
    10 miles 6th September Garden City 10 Results of the race
           
    Marathon 18th October Abingdon Marathon Results of the race
           
    Sub-Ultra Best results of all these three Presented at the Abingdon Marathon

    RRC Championships for 2010

    The venues and dates of our 2010 Championships have now been fixed, and they will be held at the following races:

    Half Marathon 10th October '10 Leicester Half Marathon http://www.leicestermarathon.org.uk/
           
    10 miles ??th September '10 Garden City 10 www.gardencityrunners.org.uk
           
    Marathon 9th May 2010 Halstead Marathon http://halsteadroadrunners.net/index.php
           
    Sub-Ultra Best results of all these three Presented at the Leicester Half Marathon
         
    100 km 19th June 2010 (with UK Champs and AC Plate) wilsonanne691@aol.com

  • The RRC Championships are of course only open to paid-up members of the RRC and all entrants must enter the host race in the usual way, but making sure to give their RRC number, and they must also register their entry by the day before the race with the Hon. General Secretary of the RRC, by email or by letter.