Road races

Road race fixtures and Cambridgeshire AA Road League information and results

Cambs Road League 2025

Hot of the press, the 2025 dates for your diary/club championships, along with a new league logo (Thanks Claire Piercy).

Not long to wait with the season starting at the newest race on the calendar – Folksworth 15 19th January and entries are now open and for 2025, now also on runbritian / P10.

Folksworth 15mile – 19^th January – https://www.folksworth15.org.uk

Thorney 10k – (Championship race) 23rd March

Cambourne 10k – Date TBC

Eye 10k – 11th May

Peterborough 5k series – 25th June & 6th August (TBC) (6th will likely be the Championship race)

Eye 5mile – (Championship race) 17th July

Sawtry 10mile – 7th September

Fenland 10mile – (Championship race) 26th October There will be a few changes to the rules for 2025 and these will be available on the Cambridge Athletics website in the next few weeks.

Cambridgeshire Road Racing Report – 2024

The Cambs road racing league enjoyed another successful year in 2024, with strong fields at all 8 of the schedule races and the county championship races returning over the distances of 5k, 5-miles, 10K & 10-miles.

Kanina O’Neill (March) took the honours for the ladies, closely followed by Abi Kefford (Helpston) and Rosie Mead (Hunts) in 3^rd position.

David Hudson and James Orrell enjoyed a seasons long battle, ending the year on the same number of points, and a 2 all tie on the head-to-head, with David just nudging the top spot with 2 overall race wins to James 1. Andrew Jakeman (March) was just a single point adrift in 3rd. It looks like 2025 will be an exciting season to watch.

The county championship races were hotly contested and despite the inevitable teething troubles, were warmly received and added some excitement to the league races and we hope to build on this for 2025. The full list of medals winners is at the end of this report.

Championship medal winners 2024 (click on title)

Essex 20 Intercounty race – 17^th March

The intercounty 20-mile race was held a week after the Cambs half for 2024, which did help with interest, but two hard races a week apart is never a recipe for success. We did however collect a bronze medal for the men’s team, with the ladies ending the race in 6^th position overall. David Hudson (1:52:54) led home the men’s team, with Martin Amos (1:54:48), Phil Martin (1:55:10) & Alex Gibb (DNF) making up the team.The Women’s team was led home by Jess Williams (2:15:07) followed by Alice Clarkson (2:16:05), Libby Brown (2:18:11) & Helen Joyce who stepped into the team with a few days’ notice (2:39:06).

The 2025 race is on the 16^{th of} March, and we will be looking at sending both strong male & female teams again, so please register your interest if you would like to be considered for selection.

Cambridge T&G 10k Intercounty race – 6^th October

Clare Thurgood stepped into the role of team manager for the event and did a fantastic job of organising the team to a double medal winning performance. Katie Lowery led home the ladies’ team (36:11) with Clare next to cross the line (37:08), Cambridge regular Jo Colley (38:30) & Alison Stewart (39:55) helped secure team Silver.

Chris Smith led home the Men’s team with 4^th place overall (30:53), closely followed by Max Walk (31:20), Cambs Road league winner David Hudson (32:33) and Mark Sampson (33:06) on debut. A fine team performance to collect the bronze and only 9 seconds away from a silver medal.

Information and rules for Cambs championship races

Results of first championship race at Thorney

Current championship standings can be found at

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OkW09w3bYTqCBIoCGvB8sDGHVlKUPIhForY-XFhQZPg/edit#gid=0

, if you see any errors – please let Ty Farrar know.