The North Cheshire 5k Grand Prix is a series of five 5k races organised by Spectrum Striders RC and Altrincham & District AC.  (This 5k road race series is not to be confused with the "Cheshire County Road Race Grand Prix".)

The race info sheets are the provisional at present although details are expected to remain largely the same as for 2011.

[Note that race 4 has been moved from its regular Friday evening date due to a clash with an England football game at Euro 2012.]

How to enter

Entry is only by post.  You can pre-enter the whole series or just individual races.

Series entry

If you enter the whole 5-race series, there is a reduced entry fee of £20 (UKA club member) or £30 (unaffiliated).  This is a discount of £5 for the series, so you get 5 races for the price of 4.  You get a single race number which you keep for the whole race series.

Click here to download an entry form for the whole 5k series.

Closing date

Postal entries must be received by 19-May-2012.  Please remember to put the correct stamp on your entry envelope and on your SAE.

Series entry limit

The maximum number series entries we accept will be about 180, but this will be reviewed as entries come in for the Dunham and Bowdon races, where the race limit is a little lower.

The advice is still the same as for previous years – please enter early if you want to run the whole series!

If we have not reached the series entry limit, you can still get a series entry up to the start of the Hollins Green 5k race.

Remember that individual races can be entered up the the individual race limit.

Individual race entry

You can enter individual races.  Click on the race entry form links in the table above to download an entry form for the race you want to enter.

• Entry on the day will be available at Hollins Green and Lymm at an extra charge.
• There will probably be no entry on the day at Bowdon or Dunham Massey.

The Dunham Massey races usually reach their entry limit before race day and Bowdon also has a race limit.  Please enter early if you want to run the Bowdon race or either of the Dunham Massey races.

Transfer Of Series Entries

If you are injured or find you cannot run, we will allow you to transfer your series entry to another runner.  We will not charge a transfer fee to do this.  We want to see the right names against the runners in the results!

Restrictions

Transfers of race entries to another runner are not allowed after the start of race number 2 at Hollins Green.

Transfers to another runner are only allowed if you have not yet run race 1.  (To be clear, if runner A runs race 1 at Dunham Massey, they cannot then transfer their series entry for the other 4 races to runner B.)

How to do a transfer

Submit a completed entry form which is clearly marked:

"Transfer runner number NNNN from previous runner XXXX"

Please give as many details of the previous runner as possible; including "age on race day" and sex.  We want to make absolutely sure we transfer the entry from the right person.  The entry form for the new runner MUST be completed as normal with age, sex etc.

Please send the information to the address on the entry form, making sure it arrives before the day of the first race.

If the transfer is at the last minute, please arrive early on race day with a completed form with all of the information & the race number and we will do our best to help.   We will not be able to issue a replacement series race number.

Series results & prizes

Series results are published on this web site.  These include every runner who completed 4 or more races in the series, not just the prize winners.

There are prizes for each individual race, plus series prizes.  The rules for series age category prizes are:

• You must do at least 4 races.
• If you do 5 races, your best 4 times count.
• Series prizes are awarded in the runners age category unless they beat the open runners.
• The winner is the runner who has the fastest average time for 4 races in their age category.