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Owen Trophy 2025

Now that cross-country season has drawn to a close and the days are getting longer this can only mean one thing…..ROAD RACE SEASON IS ALMOST HERE.

Central to the road racing season is our Owen Trophy ( there is also the Surrey Road League but more about that next week). Below I have outlined every detail you will need on the Owen Trophy 2025 to convince you into getting those road running shoes dusted off for the summer months ahead.

Owen Trophy – What is it?

The Striders Of Croydon ‘Owen Trophy’ competition is for first-claim members, which incorporates the races below, plus your choice of one half-marathon and one marathon.

The Owen Trophy was introduced by the committee in 2003 when Alan Dolton and Chris Morton came up with a competition designed to encourage 1st claim club members to participate in local road events and compete alongside fellow Striders more or less on an even basis and is awarded each year to the runner who has shown consistent improvement throughout the road running season, regardless of age, your running ability or which pace group you would normally run in on a Wednesday night. It is simply based on your own running improvements.

Please see below all details and the races which will count towards scoring in the 2025 competition. Runners will need to pay their own entry fee for these events.

Owen Trophy – A bit of history on the trophy

A bit of history…..the trophy is named after Steve Owen who was our club’s first chairman from 1982 to 1991 and was responsible for introducing our tradition of ‘looping back’ (something which other local clubs didn’t do at the time)

Owen Trophy – How does it work?

The Owen Trophy scoring system is based on your personal 10k ‘base time’. This makes the competition available for anyone to win! You don’t have to be the fastest runner, it’s about improving over the racing season. Your initial ‘base time’ is your fastest 10k time for Striders in the period 01/09/2023 to 12/04/2025 and this value is used to calculate your bonus times for the races. If you haven’t run a 10k for Striders since 01/09/2023 then you won’t initially have a ‘base time’ and therefore you won’t have target times for this season.

Using that ‘base time’ a multiplying factor is applied to each race to give you a ‘target’ time and a ‘bonus target’ time which will be published a couple days before each race.

Scoring is based on completing the races, beating the target & bonus target times, and beating times from the previous year (if you raced them). From the total of 10 available races, your best 6 scores will count. At the end of the year, the Strider with the best score from 6 races is awarded the Owen Trophy.

Owen Trophy – Points scoring

– 20 points for a completed race

– 1 point for finishing quicker than your personalised ‘target’ time

– 1 point for finishing quicker than your personalised ‘bonus target’ time

– 1 point for finishing quicker than your time for the same race last season (if the race was included in 2024 and you completed it)

– 1 extra point for completing a marathon

– TBC 1 point for bettering your previous year’s Road Ranking time (5k, 10k, 10 miles, half marathon, full marathon). There is no extra point available for the Elmore 7 Mile.

It is your 6 best scores out of the 10 races listed below. Only your best marathon and half marathon score, you don’t score for multiple of these events.

*NB – For your half and full marathon targets the time is based on your initial ‘base time’ of the Owen Trophy season.

**NB – The qualifying period runs from 1st November to 31st October each year

Owen Trophy – Races for 2025

I’ve made a couple changes to the calendar this year to ensure a better spread of races and distances, also avoiding direct clashes with the Rosenheim League. This year the Owen Trophy offers you 2 x 5k, 3 x 10k, 1 x 7 ml, 1 x 10 ml, 1 x half plus your choice of one half-marathon and one marathon.

Race 1 – Sunday 13th April – Sutton 10k – Entries HERE Target factor 1.0197, bonus target factor 1.0095

Race 2 – Sunday 11th May – Ranelagh Harriers Richmond Half Marathon – Entries HERE Target factor 2.25, bonus target factor 2.2275

Race 3– Sunday 1st June – Dorking 10 miles – Entries HERE Target factor 1.76, bonus target factor 1.7424

Race 4 – Tuesday 10th June (7pm) – Sri Chinmoy Speedy Steeds 5k – Entries HERE Target factor 0.49, bonus target factor 0.4851

Race 5 – Sunday 22nd June – Ranelagh Harriers Richmond 10k – Entries HERE Target factor 1.015, bonus target factor 1.00485

Race 6 – Saturday 12th July – Elmore 7 Mile – Entries HERETarget factor 1.20, bonus target factor 1.188

Race 7 – Sunday 20th July – Elmbridge 10k – Entries Not Open Yet –Target factor 1.015, bonus target factor 1.00485

Race 8 – Tuesday 5th August (7pm) – Sri Chinmoy Hasty Hare 5k – Entries HERE Target factor 0.49, bonus target factor 0.4851

Owen Trophy – How to take part?

If you want to take part in the Owen Trophy please add your name to this spreadsheet and your race target times will be calculated & published a couple days before each race. Only enter your first and last names in the columns provided, leave the ‘race base time’ column and all other columns blank, I will complete those myself.

Best of luck to everyone taking part in road races this season!

If you have any queries please email johnf9omahony@gmail.com

Final Summary table for 2024

Results for Race 1: Sutton 10k

Results for Race 2: Ranelagh Richmond Half Marathon

Results for Race 3: Dorking 10

Results for Race 4: Ranelagh Richmond 10k

Results for Race 5: Sri Chinmoy 5k

Results for Race 6: Elmore 7

Results for Race 7: Elmbridge 10k

Half Marathon results for contenders

Marathon results for contenders

Final Summary table for 2023

Results for Race 1: Ranelagh Richmond Half Marathon

Results for Race 2: Sutton 10k

Results for Race 3: Dorking 10

Results for Race 4: Ranelagh Richmond 10k

Results for Race 5: Elmore 7

Results for Race 6: Elmbridge 10k

Results for Race 7: Sri Chinmoy 5k

Results for Race 8: Run Reigate 10k

Half Marathon results for contenders

Marathon results for contenders

Final Table for 2022 (only 9 races were completed in 2022 due to the cancellation of the Croydon Half Marathon)

Results for Race 1: Wimbledon 5k

Results for Race 2: Sutton 10k

Results for Race 3: Dorking 10 Mile

Results for Race 4: Ranelagh Richmond 10k

Results for Race 5: Elmore 7

Results for Race 6: Elmbridge 10k

Results for Race 7: Croydon 10k

Half Marathon results for contenders

Marathon results for contenders

Please note: due to Coronavirus, and lack of recent racing, extra points for finishing quicker than the same race last season and for bettering your previous year’s Road Ranking time were omitted for the 2022 Owen Trophy.

Results for 2020

Due to Coronavirus, only the Croydon Half Marathon was completed in 2020, and no races were staged in 2021

Results for race 1 – 2020 : Croydon Half Marathon

Final table for 2019

Results for race 1 – 2019 : Croydon Half Marathon

Results for race 2 – 2019 : Sutton 10k

Results for race 3 – 2019 : Dorking 10 Mile

Results for race 4 – 2019 : Richmond 10k

Results for race 5 – 2019: Elmore 7

Results for race 6 – 2019: Elmbridge 10k

Results for race 7 – 2019: Wimbledon 5k

Results for race 8 – 2019: Croydon 10k