Wiltshire Off-Road Race Series 2025/6

Qualifying events:

Wiltshire Athletics run both on and off road leagues. For the Wiltshire Off Road League (WORL) there are 8 races plus a social run at the end of the season. Races start in October and finish in March. The races vary in distance (10K to 12 miles) and level of challenge (SMaRRT (flat) to Terminator (not flat – its in the name!). Most are very off road! For WORL there are both individual and teams standing (male and female). Any member of Avon Valley Runners can enter any event. An AVR standing is run alongside side the WORL standing, this gives club members better visibility of where they are against club mates (updated and published after each race). AVR standing  scoring is different to WORL, see below for detail of AVR scoring  (WORL scoring detail to follow). Race events for the 2025 -2026 season are:

Race #1 5th October 2025 Somer Athletic Club 's Mother Tuckers 10k

Race #2 12th October 2025 Marshfield Mudlark with Marshfield Primary School PTA

Race #3 19th October 2025 Redfish Events 's White Horse Gallop

Race #4 14th December 2025 The Tri Counties XC Event

Race #5 TBC 2026 Slaughterford 9 by Chippenham Harriers Running Club

Race #6 8th February 2026 Lungbuster 9 by RWBH

Race #7 15th February 2026 Smartt Smasher by Calne SMaRTT

Race #8 22nd February 2026 The Terminator by Pewsey Vale Running Club

Social #9 A parkrun and presentations

Detail of AVR Standing Scoring:

If you are the AVR winner of a race you get 1 point, come second 2 points and so on (the runner with the lowest number of points at the end of the season is the overall winner). There are separate standings for male and female. 

However if you don’t enter one of the races (but have entered others) then you get the number of points given to the last person in the busiest race plus 5 points. As an example for men, the busiest race this season (2025-2026) so far was race 1 with male 20 entrants, so the points went from 1 to 20. For race 2 there were 7 entrants (who got points from 1 to 7). Those wo had entered race 1 but not race 2 would get 20+5 = 25 points for race 2.

We try and encourage participation and performance by rewarding both. You can see that the busiest race figure is a dynamic number, could be a latter race has 22 entrants (good if it happened) in which case I would recast the  table (22+5 = 27 for men).