The Oxfordshire Road Race Grand Prix is competed for over 15 races throughout the season. In each race the first 4 men and first 3 women from each participating club form the teams. The first team scores 25, second 22, third 20, fourth 19 and so on. The scores are added up through the season and the two worst scores discarded to decide the winner. In the competition for individuals, you score points in each race according to the percentage of the field you beat and your two worst scores are discarded. Full details of the rules are in the Grand Prix Rules attachment below, and a full list of prizewinners since the competition started in 2002 are in the Prizewinners attachment.
The fourteenth and last round of the 2024 Grand Prix season took place at the Eynsham 10k on 24th November.
Both Headington's men and women won the team competition in the Grand Prix with dominant performances, both taking 9 wins out of the 14 possible. For the men it was their third win, but for the women it was their nineteenth in the 22 years of the competition. Witney's men's and women's teams both took second place, while Abingdon's teams both took third, their men overhauling Woodstock with wins in the last two races.
Harwell Harriers' men won the small teams' competition for the first time and Woodstock's women also won for the first time with an excellent 4th place overall. Apologies to Kidlington's women who I previously announced as winners, but in response to a query I checked the status of Woodstock and they definitely qualify as a small team.
Matt Lock won the men's individual competition for the second time with 8 wins in the 12 races he contested. Connor McGurk was runner-up for the second year running and Tom Baker's win over Tom Preskett at Eynsham took him up to third. James Bolton last missed out on a podium place in 2006, eight prime-ministers ago.
Lucy Ambrose secured the individual women's trophy several races ago with a couple of wins and consistent good results in the other races. Katherine Jones was second after putting in a series of top runs in the second half of the season. Yvonne Morris couldn't quite do enough at Eynsham to hold on to third and was overtaken by her team mate Mary Scott.
Men's Teams | Eynsham 10k | Total | Total-2 | ||
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1 | Headington Road Runners | 539 | (22) | 331 | 291 |
2 | Witney RR | 523 | (20) | 284 | 250 |
3 | Abingdon AC | 543 | (25) | 259 | 233 |
4 | Woodstock Harriers | 459 | (18) | 262 | 232 |
5 | Cherwell | 368 | (16) | 222 | 203 |
6 | Harwell Harriers§ | 75 | (10) | 218 | 196 |
7 | Eynsham | 139 | (12) | 214 | 192 |
8 | Banbury Harriers§ | 108 | (11) | 196 | 174 |
9 | Didcot§ | 301 | (14) | 184 | 170 |
10 | Alchester | 508 | (19) | 173 | 159 |
11 | White Horse Harriers§ | 397 | (17) | 173 | 159 |
12 | Kidlington§ | 332 | (15) | 164 | 150 |
13 | Oxford City AC | 235 | (13) | 156 | 142 |
14 | Hook Norton Harriers§ | 69 | (09) | 138 | 124 |
15 | Thame Road Runners§ | 0 | (07) | 129 | 115 |
16 | Bicester AC§ | 0 | (07) | 114 | 100 |
Women's Teams | Eynsham 10k | Total | Total-2 | ||
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1 | Headington Road Runners | 329 | (25) | 323 | 289 |
2 | Witney RR | 316 | (22) | 259 | 238 |
3 | Abingdon AC | 294 | (19) | 261 | 235 |
4 | Woodstock Harriers§ | 299 | (20) | 250 | 228 |
5 | Alchester | 177 | (15) | 199 | 185 |
6 | Eynsham | 171 | (13) | 196 | 182 |
7 | Oxford City AC | 249 | (17) | 192 | 178 |
8 | Kidlington§ | 179 | (16) | 189 | 175 |
9 | Harwell Harriers§ | 80 | (11) | 186 | 172 |
10 | Cherwell | 86 | (12) | 182 | 168 |
11 | White Horse Harriers§ | 291 | (18) | 176 | 162 |
12 | Banbury Harriers§ | 0 | (07) | 172 | 158 |
13 | Didcot§ | 175 | (14) | 170 | 156 |
14 | Hook Norton Harriers§ | 47 | (10) | 143 | 129 |
15 | Thame Road Runners§ | 0 | (07) | 122 | 108 |
16 | Bicester AC§ | 0 | (07) | 114 | 100 |
Women's Individual Leading Positions | ||||||
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NAME | CLUB | Eynsham 10k | Grand Total | Best | Races | |
1 | Ambrose, Lucy | Headington RR | 90 | 931 | 931 | 10 |
2 | Jones, Katherine | Woodstock Harriers A | 99 | 783 | 783 | 8 |
3 | Scott, Mary | Headington RR | 93 | 764 | 764 | 8 |
4 | Morris, Yvonne | Headington RR | 75 | 758 | 758 | 11 |
5 | Glasson, Leonie | Headington Road Runn | 98 | 685 | 685 | 7 |
6 | Johnstone, Caroline | Woodstock Harriers A | 84 | 658 | 658 | 8 |
7 | Cox, Charlotte | Headington RR | 88 | 631 | 631 | 7 |
8 | Allred, Kate | Abingdon AC | 91 | 618 | 618 | 7 |
9 | Oldroyd, Nicola | HEADINGTON RR | 42 | 615 | 615 | 8 |
10 | Myhill, Emily | Headington Road Runn | 97 | 577 | 577 | 6 |
11 | Howard, Sally | Witney Road Runners | 82 | 572 | 572 | 7 |
12 | Leavesley, Nicola | Woodstock Harriers A | 53 | 564 | 564 | 11 |
13 | Millatt, Wendy | Abingdon AC | 60 | 544 | 544 | 10 |
14 | Beedie, Lauren | Witney Road Runners | 89 | 516 | 516 | 6 |
15 | Shaw, Rachel | Headington Road Runn | 89 | 505 | 505 | 6 |
16 | Critchley, Jen | Banbury Harriers AC | 0 | 469 | 469 | 6 |
17 | Finnigan, Andrea | Kidlington Running a | 0 | 438 | 438 | 6 |
18 | Webster, Katie | Kidlington Running C | 0 | 423 | 423 | 5 |
19 | Newell, Georgina | Banbury harriers AC | 0 | 422 | 422 | 5 |
21 | Hogger, Lisa | Oxford City AC | 0 | 418 | 418 | 5 |
20 | Noble, Chantelle | Eynsham Road Runners | 0 | 418 | 418 | 5 |
22 | Howard, Harriet | Witney Road Runners | 68 | 414 | 414 | 6 |
23 | Giles, Stephanie | Alchester Running Cl | 0 | 396 | 396 | 4 |
24 | Stubbs, Isabel | Witney Road Runners | 0 | 378 | 378 | 4 |
25 | Hills, Alison | Headington Road Runn | 76 | 357 | 357 | 5 |
Men's Individual Leading Positions | ||||||
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NAME | CLUB | Eynsham 10k | Grand Total | Best | Races | |
1 | Lock, Matthew | Witney Road Runners | 99 | 1191 | 1191 | 12 |
2 | Mcgurk, Connor | Harwell Harriers | 0 | 1093 | 1093 | 12 |
3 | Baker, Tom | Eynsham Road Runners | 87 | 973 | 973 | 11 |
4 | Preskett, Thomas | Woodstock Harriers A | 74 | 961 | 961 | 12 |
5 | Cousens, Rupert | Headington RR | 75 | 905 | 905 | 12 |
6 | Varney, Francis | Banbury harriers AC | 76 | 882 | 882 | 12 |
7 | Marshall, Matthieu | Headington Road Runn | 100 | 792 | 792 | 8 |
8 | Gibson, Matthew | Headington Road Runn | 89 | 767 | 767 | 9 |
9 | Fenning, John | Headington RR | 83 | 667 | 667 | 8 |
10 | Garforth, Sam | Headington RR | 0 | 662 | 662 | 7 |
11 | Critchley, Arran | Banbury harriers AC | 0 | 620 | 593 | 13 |
12 | Orr, Christian | WOODSTOCK HARRIERS A | 78 | 574 | 574 | 7 |
13 | Shayler, Theo | Witney Road Runners | 54 | 550 | 550 | 9 |
14 | Cantwell, Dave | Woodstock Harriers A | 0 | 500 | 500 | 7 |
15 | Morrissey, Neil | Witney Road Runners | 73 | 499 | 499 | 8 |
16 | Moffett, Dougie | HEADINGTON RR | 98 | 486 | 486 | 5 |
18 | Turner-hibberd, Mich | Didcot Runners | 73 | 484 | 484 | 6 |
17 | Kay, Jeremy | Didcot Runners | 37 | 484 | 484 | 10 |
19 | Bolton, James | Woodstock Harriers | 96 | 474 | 474 | 5 |
21 | Howard, Fraser | Witney Road Runners | 69 | 470 | 470 | 8 |
20 | Cooke, Sean | Abingdon AC | 65 | 470 | 470 | 7 |
22 | Large, Simon | Harwell Harriers | 0 | 463 | 463 | 7 |
23 | Taylor, Paul | Witney RR | 94 | 457 | 457 | 5 |
24 | Worley, David | Witney Road Runners | 49 | 452 | 452 | 9 |
25 | Lewy, Mark | Abingdon AC | 50 | 445 | 445 | 8 |
Date | GP Races in 2024 |
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17/03/2024 | Goring 10k |
24/03/2024 | Banbury 15 |
07/04/2024 | White Horse Half Marathon |
25/04/2024 | Mota-vation-Charlton |
30/06/2024 | Thame 10k |
07/07/2024 | Didcot 5 |
14/07/2024 | Hornton Classic 6 |
04/08/2024 | Hook Norton 6 |
14/08/2024 | Alchester Summer 5K |
25/08/2024 | Headington 5 |
07/09/2024 | Cotswold Classic 10 |
29/09/2024 | Hanney 5 (Cancelled - flooding) |
05/10/2024 | Woodstock '12' |
20/10/2024 | Abingdon Marathon |
24/11/2024 | Eynsham 10K |