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Owen Trophy 2024 – add your name to this spreadsheet, and we will calculate your base 10k time and target times a few days before the race date.

If you have any queries on the results or targets – please contact stridersofcroydon@gmail.com

How does it work?

The system is based around your 10K ‘base time’. Your initial ‘base time’ is your fastest 10K time for Striders in the period 01/09/2022 to 06/04/2024.
If you better your 10K ‘base time’ it will immediately be adjusted to reflect this new quicker time (your ‘base time’ can improve from any 10K race, not just Owen Trophy 10Ks).
If you haven’t run a 10K for Striders since 01/09/2022 then you won’t initially have a base time and so you won’t have target times.

Using that ‘base time’ we apply a standard factor to each race to give you a ‘target’ time and a ‘bonus target’ time for each race. (The ‘bonus target’ is simply the ‘target’ multiplied by 0.99 ). These ‘target’ factors are calculated by looking at previous results for Striders in these particular races and comparing these to their previous ‘base times’; in this way the difficulty of the course is factored into your target times.

If all this seems a bit confusing then check the examples at the bottom of this page.

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

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

Races for 2024

Sutton 10K – 7th April. Target factor 1.0197 Bonus target factor 1.0095
Ranelagh Richmond Half Marathon – 12th May. 2.25 2.2275
Dorking 10 Mile – 2nd June. 1.76 1.7424
Ranelagh Richmond 10K – 23rd June. 1.015 1.00485
Sri Chinmoy “Kangaroo Hop” 5K – 9th July (7pm). 0.49 0.4851.
Elmore 7 Mile – 13th July. 1.20 1.188
Elmbridge 10K – 21st July. 1.015 1.00485
Croydon 10K – TBA. 1.0175 1.0073.
Any one Marathon – run between 1st November 2023 to 31st October 2024 ** 5.0 4.95
Any one Half Marathon – run between 1st November 2023 to 31st October 2024 ** 2.25 2.2275

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

** NB: since the 2018/19 season, the marathon and half marathon qualifying period has been shortened to 11 months, and each year going forwards the qualifying period will run from 1 November to 31 October each year.

Examples :

runner A’s ‘base time’ is 45.00
‘target’ time for Sutton is 45.53 (45.00 * 1.0197)
‘bonus target’ time is 45.26 (45.00 * 1.0095),
For their best half marathon their ‘target’ time would be 1.41.15 (45.00 * 2.25)
and the ‘bonus target’ time would be 1.40.14 (45.00 * 2.2275)

If runner B’s ‘base time’ is 55.00
‘target’ time for Sutton is 56.05
‘bonus target’ time is 55.31,
For their best half marathon their ‘target’ time would be 2.03.45
and the ‘bonus target’ time would be 2.02.31

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