Wiltshire Off-Road Race Series 2026/27
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 2026 -2027 season are:
Race: 1 20th September 2026
Mells Mash-Up (7miles)
Formerly known as: Mells Scenic
Hosted by WORL Member Club: Frome Running Club
Entries: open soon. Note that entry is limited to 150 due to parking arrangements.
With the limited numbers AVR members are advised to enter early.
Race 2: 4th October 2026
Mother Tuckers 10km - trail run
Hosted by WORL Member Club: Somer Athletic Club
Entries: open at £19
The junior race is also in the Wiltshire Junior Race League. Camping available onsite. Pub at the location for Sunday Lunch - book in advance!! Race Village is top notch!!
Race 3: 18th October 2026
White Horse Gallop (12k)
Hosted by: Redfish Events
Entries: open at £25
Based at Westbury Leisure Centre giving a sometimes needed shelter from the weather! A super race including a scramble to one of our local White Horse's.
Race 4: 8th November 2026:
Avon Valley Runners Over The Hills (12k)
Hosted by WORL Member Club: Avon Valley Runners
Entries: open at £18
Based in or around The Tithe Barn in Bradford on Avon. Includes the much revered River Crossing . Run in conjunction with Alzheimer's Society, the cake sale afterwards is amazing!
Races 5 to 8 (in 2027) to follow.
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).