Off-Road Championship
The Harrogate Harriers Off Road Championships continues into 2025!
Following the successful changes introduced in 2024, we’re sticking with the same expanded format: more races, exciting team events, and a broader qualification structure that includes both Trail races and PECO XC races.
The championship season runs from March 2025 to February 2026, allowing us to include the full PECO XC series—just as much mud as the fell runs, so why not!
Bonus points are once again up for grabs in selected team events.
Get those race dates in your diary—it’s set to be another fantastic year of off-road running. If you are going to attend sign up on Spond so everyone knows who is going and who their competition is going to be!
The championship leaderboard is updated regularly, usually soon after each race’s results are published.
Richard F at recent Lee Mills Relay
Rules for 2025
You have to do SIX races in order to qualify for a finishing position in the Championship. If you do more, then your best six will go towards determining your position in the final championship table.
To Qualify you will only need 2 fell races, 2 Trail races and 2 Peco so it's up to you how far you want to run and how muddy you want to get.
Scoring for 2025
For Non-Team races: 1st Harrier home gets 10 points, 2nd Harrier gets 9 points, 3rd Harrier 8 points and so on. If more than 10 Harriers then the last few will get 1 point each.
Team Events: 1 point for volunteering for HH squad for a team event (but not selected), everyone who takes part in the team event gets 5 points
Championship Winners
The winning Open Entrant/Female will be the ones that score the most points, but there will also be Open/Female V40, V50 and V60 vets categories.
Only 1st Claim Members will be able to take part in the off-road champs.
Championship fixtures:
Date | Event | Terrain | Info |
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Sat 22 Mar, 2025 | We need to talk about Chevin | Fell | |
Sun 06 Apr, 2025 | Baildon Boundary Way | Trail | |
Sat 17 May, 2025 | Charlesworth Chase | Fell | |
Sun 18 May, 2025 | Calderdale Relays | Team | Team Relay event |
Mon 26 May, 2025 | Austwick Amble | Trail | |
Sat 07 Jun, 2025 | Wharfedale Trail half | Trail | FRA kit required |
Thu 19 Jun, 2025 | Beamsley Beacon | Fell | |
Tue 01 Jul, 2025 | Danefield Relays | Team | Team Relay event |
Sun 27 Jul, 2025 | James Heriot Trail | Trail | |
Sun 03 Aug, 2025 | Round Hill | Fell | |
Sun 14 Sep, 2025 | Meanwood Valley Trail | Trail | |
Sat 20 Sep, 2025 | Rombalds Romp | Fell | Full waterproofs, hat and gloves |
Sat 18 Oct, 2025 | British Fell Championship Relay (Wales) | Team | Team Relay event |
Sun 19 Oct, 2025 | Gormire Gamble | Fell | |
Sun 23 Nov, 2025 | Lee Mills Relays | Team | Team Relay event |
Sun 28 Dec, 2025 | Jolly Holly Jog | Trail | |
Sat 10 Jan, 2026 | Harewood House 10k | Trail | |
Sun 08 Feb, 2026 | Runners and Riders | Fell |