View the target times:
Standard Times (PDF)
New 2025 version with revised times and added distances: 1500m, 1 mile, 3km.
Your age on January 1st determines your times for the whole year.
No more than two distances shorter than 5 miles may count towards the same award.
Lockdown Courses
The lockdown courses below will continue to be accepted, with GPS (Garmin, Strava etc.) as evidence:
| Distance | Route |
|---|---|
| 5k | Any parkrun, or a 5k (3.11 miles) route of your choice starting and finishing at the same point. |
| 5 mile | Mapometer — GPX |
| 10k | Mapometer — GPX |
| 6 mile | Mapometer — GPX |
| 7 mile | Mapometer — GPX |
| 8 mile | Mapometer — GPX |
| 10 mile | Mapometer — GPX |
| Half marathon | Mapometer — GPX |
| 20 mile | Mapometer — GPX |
| Marathon | Any 26.2 miles (42.2 km) route of your choice, starting and finishing at the same point. |
What is the Standard Times Awards Scheme?
The standards times scheme gives club members an extra incentive to take part in races and to improve their running, for which they will awarded a certificate appropriate to the standard achieved at the end of the year. The scheme runs from 1st January to 31st December each year and the certificates are given out at the seniors awards night.
How does it work?
There are 15 race distances for you to choose from: 1500m, 1 mile, 3k, 5k, 5 mile, 6 mile, 10k, 7 mile, 8 mile, 9 mile, 15k, 10 mile, half marathon, 20 mile, marathon.
There are 10 levels of award: Merit, Merit+, Bronze, Bronze+, Silver, Silver+, Gold, Gold+, Diamond and Diamond+.
To be awarded a certificate, you must achieve the required times for at least five different distances, with no more than two distances under 5 miles.
To gain a distinction certificate, you need nine distances, including 10 miles, a half marathon, 20 miles and a marathon.
All times must be achieved at recognised road races and track events with accurately measured courses – no cross country, trail or other off-road events. See “Which races are eligible?” below for guidance. There is also a set of pre-defined courses you can run in the Hinckley area, where you can time your effort with a GPS (see Lockdown Courses above).
There is a different table of target times for every age and sex. Your age for standard times purposes is your age on January 1st of the year. (Note the special age rule for juniors, below).
If you are intested to know how the target times are calculated you can read here.
Awards for Under-18s
Junior and senior members aged under 18 can apply for standard times awards but with a limit on the allowable distances as in the table below.
| Age on 1st Jan | Distances allowed for awards |
| Aged 13 years or under | Not eligible for awards |
| Aged 14 or 15 years | All distances up to and including 10k |
| Aged 16 years | All distances up to and including 8 miles |
| Aged 17 years | All distances up to and including half marathon |
Please note also the maximum allowed distances for licensed road races per UK Athletics Rules for Competition RULE T3 (141) S 3.
Runners aged under 18 on 1st Jan may choose to add 1 to their age for awards purposes. This allows a wider range of distances to be included but with more difficult time targets. For example, an athlete who is 15 on 1st Jan and runs a 7-mile race after their 16th birthday may choose to apply either for an age 15 award (easier times but cannot include the 7-mile) or an age 16 award (harder times but can include the 7-mile).
Other Rules
- Your time must shown in the official published race results and must be under your own name.
- Where races have chip timing, the chip time counts.
- Your time must be run between 1st January and 31st December of the awards year.
- To apply for standard times you must be a member of Hinckley Running Club (junior or senior). If you joined the club part way through the year, you can use times from races ran before you joined as long as the majority of races were done while a member.
- You can use the same races to count towards two different awards in the same year. For example, you might use five races towards a silver ordinary award and the same five races plus four others as part of a bronze distinction.
Which races are eligible?
The golden rule is you must run your time at a race with an accurate course. All accredited road races with a certificate of course accuracy are accepted.
How to check if a race is certified: You can check if a road race has a “certificate of course accuracy” by searching the Association of UK Course Measurers website here: Search for Certified Races
Power of 10 Listings: The Power Of 10 is a website run by UK Athletics which shows your results from all official UKA-licensed events. All races shown on your profile can be assumed to be officially measured as long as there are no letters after the distance. For example 5M is a certified 5 mile, but 5MNAD, 5MMT or 5MXC is not.
ARC licensed events: ARC (Association of Running Clubs) is an alternative licensing body that some race organisers use in preference to UKA/EA. These races are also eligible for Standard Times but don’t appear on Power of 10. Examples of ARC-licensed events are Desford 5, West End 8 and Calke Abbey 10k. There is a list of all races with ARC permits.
LRRL: All LRRL road races are certified accurate so you don’t have to check these yourself.
HRC Events: All time trials, handicap races, etc. organised by the club are accepted.
Parkrun: All parkruns may be used for the 5k distance.
Other races: Despite not fully meeting the UKA measurement criteria (for example measurement certificates not renewed every year) we will accept the following local races: Shepshed 7, Watermead 5, Fradley 10k, Tamworth 10k.
How to apply?
An application process for each year’s awards will be posted to the club website towards the end of the year.
