Club Championship Handicap Series 2025/26

Club Championship Handicap Series 2025/26

We’re pleased to announce the prizewinners of the 2025/26 handicap series.  A total of 31 club members took part in at least 4 of the 7 events and so qualified for the series awards.

Performance compared with handicap time – top 3:

  1. Sarah Baker
  2. Nick Loades
  3. Paula Bazley

Fastest female:
Gordana Sucur-Hills

Fastest male:
Kevin Heyhoe

Highest age-grade:
Gordana Sucur-Hills

There are also prizes for the top 3 places (performance compared with handicap time) in each event that make up the series:

  1st place 2nd place 3rd pace
Fakenham 5k Michelle Finnegan George Forrester Nick Loades
Holt 5k Lori Brackley Gemma Pickering Sarah Baker
5k in the park Cat Foley-Wray Vikki Powles Lucy Harrison
5k on the beach Emma Kiley Vicki Armes Lucy Martin
Hainford 5k Lucy Martin Paula Bazley David Naylor
2k handicap Vikki Powles Zoe Betts Hayley Jones
November parkrun Zoe Betts Bob Empson Angie Barker

The full series results can be found here, and the detailed results of each of the 7 races making up the series can be found below:

Fakenham 5K
Holt 10K
5K in the park
5K on the beach
Hainford 5K
2k handicap
November parkrun

Notes on calculation of results

Performance v handicap – Handicap (i.e. target) times were set in advance of each event by the Handicap team and the results of each race have been calculated by comparing handicap times with actual times. So the person who beats their handicap time by the most gets 1st place, etc.  The series results have then been calculated as an average of each runner’s placing in their best 4 events.  The overall series winner is therefore the person with the lowest average placing across their best 4 events.

Fastest male / female – as above, but based on average placing for actual race times

Age grading – as above, but based on average placing of age-graded actual race times