2025 Banbury 15

2025 Banbury 15

The Banbury 15 is a 15M road race that starts from Spiceball Park, then continues on the footpath alongide the A423 before venturing into the countryside visiting the villages of Little Bourton, Great Bourton, Cropredy, Claydon and Appletree.
In a previous year the organiser's website said "Forget monotonous courses, the Banbury Run is seriously rural!".

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The above map was taken from the organiser's website in a previous year. The course is a shaped like a letter P, the out and back bit being about 5M long. This out and back bit starts along narrow paths in Spiceball Park. It continues on a footpath that accompanies the A423. The first hill is alongside this main road at about 1.75M. At about 2.4M, the course leaves the main road and ventures into the countryside first visiting the villages of Little Bourton, Great Bourton and Cropredy. At 5M, the circular 5M bit of the P starts. Here there is a short hill and at 6M there is a longer hill. At the top, you reach a village called Claydon. In my opinion, the nicest part of the course is between 6.6M and 8M: so peaceful on a quiet, narrow lane that crosses the Oxford Canal (between Claydon and Appletree). Unfortunately, this tranquillity is shattered by a significant hill at 8M - and in the future by being only 1K from 225 mph trains on the HS2 railway line. Just after the 10M marker, you complete the circular bit of the course. And just after 11M you meet the last hill which is on the approach to Great Bourton. You know it's coming as you went down it on the way out!

Because the results web page doesn't allow copying, searching and didn't originally have catpos, getting the results given below was error-prone (and tedious). And more results appeared after I first looked at lunchtime on Sunday.
Please e-mail me if I've got this wrong.

Male runners who did well

Here are some details of the male Oxfordshire club runners who were in the top 4 of their age category.

Matthew Lock (Witney_Road_Runners) was the 1st SM.

James Bolton (Woodstock_Harriers) was the 1st MV50.

Sam Garforth (Headington_RoadRunners) was the 2nd SM.

Paul Taylor (Witney_Road_Runners) was the 1st MV40.

Thomas Grantham (Witney_Road_Runners) was the 2nd MV40.

Leo Parry (Banbury_Harriers) was the 1st MU20.

Chris Bedford (Abingdon_AC) was the 1st MV60.

Philip Lister (Headington_RoadRunners) was the 1st MV70.

Mike Healey (Headington_RoadRunners) was the 2nd MV50.

John Rowland (Eynsham_Roadrunners) was the 2nd MV60.

Kevin Byrne (Headington_RoadRunners) was the 2nd MV70.

Giuseppe Morabito (Harwell_Harriers) was the 3rd MV40.

Will Morgan (Cherwell_Runners_and_Joggers) was the 3rd MV50.

Paul Ainslie (Witney_Road_Runners) was the 3rd MV60.

James Leavesley (Woodstock_Harriers) was the 4th MV40.

Rupert Cousens (Headington_RoadRunners) was the 4th MV50.

Howard Cook (Headington_RoadRunners) was the 4th MV60.

Female runners who did well

Here are some details of the female Oxfordshire club runners who were in the top 4 of their age category.

Rosie Weston (Banbury_Harriers/Loughborough_Students/Team_Cherwell_Triathlon_Club) was the 1st SL.

Mary Scott (Headington_RoadRunners) was the 2nd SL.

Anna Scrivens (Witney_Road_Runners) was the 1st FV35.

Anna Corby (Headington_RoadRunners) was the 3rd SL.

Donna Allen (Hook_Norton_Harriers) was the 2nd FV35.

Lucy Ambrose (Headington_RoadRunners) was the 3rd FV35.

Rachel Shaw (Headington_RoadRunners) was the 1st FV45.

Sally Howard (Witney_Road_Runners) was the 2nd FV45.

Jackie Duvall (Headington_RoadRunners) was the 2nd FV65.

Andrea Finnigan (Kidlington_RC) was the 3rd FV45.

Sharon Christie (Witney_Road_Runners) was the 3rd FV55.

Katie Webster (Kidlington_RC) was the 4th FV35.

Liz Bedford (Abingdon_AC) was the 4th FV55.

Postscript

Here's a link to the web page giving the results of the event.