Harwell Running Club

What's new

03 Jun 2026: track schedule for new season: races on Tuesdays, starting 9 June.
19 May 2025: Congratulations to Pete Chang, who wins the Fun Run points competition once again for 2025-26. Roll of Honour updated.
26 May 2025: Congratulations to Pete Chang, who wins the 2024-25 Fun Run points competition.
16 May 2025: track schedule for new season: races on Tuesdays, starting 27 May.
Every week: Fun run (winter) or track results (summer)

Arvinder is delighted with his Fun Run win for the 2017-18 season, as runner-up Anna looks on

What we do

Based at the Harwell / Chilton campus in Oxfordshire, Harwell Running Club is a group of people who run at lunchtime and prefer to have some company rather than none. If you can run a mile in somewhere between five and ten minutes, there will be someone glad to train at your pace.

The pavilion has good changing and showering facilities for both men and women.

Fun Run

The club organises weekly handicap Fun Runs on Tuesdays. Start times are set based on previous performances so that, in theory, everyone should finish together at 13.00. The standard course is 7 km, but on the first Tuesday of each month we run a shorter course of 5 km. There is also a 'mini' course of 3 km, for anyone who prefers a shorter run. All courses have a mixture of grass, tracks and tarmac. There is even a trophy for the first person home each week on the designated course. Turn up at the start / finish (outside the UK Health Security Agency building) at about 12.20 if you would like to take part, or check out the map of the route. There are Strava segments set up for the standard, short and mini courses.

results of latest Fun Run | Fun Run all-time records | results archive
Fun Run Timing Rota, Sep 2019 - Mar 2020 | timing sheet (Excel) | Roll of Honour (points winners)

Track

In the summer (May - August), there are Tuesday races on the grass track that we mark out on the rugby field. Each track session offers a both a shorter race (100 - 400m) and a longer one (800 - 5000m). We also try various other events such as standing long jump and throwing a baseball. Start times for the long races are usually handicapped, based on age and gender. First race starts at 12.30. There's no entry fee.

track schedule and results | track results archive | all-time track records | track marking

| Roll of Honour (points winners)

Other

The club enters teams for occasional local races, particularly the Teddy Hall Relays in Oxford each March. There are also other sporadic club activities, like discussing points allocation schemes for the season-long Fun Run and track competitions, and organising charity Fun Runs.