The UK & Ireland Counties Marathon Challenge
Lifetime Challenge:
To complete races of marathon distance or longer in as many different counties of the United Kingdom and Ireland as possible.
Certificates and patches will be awarded when a members reaches 50, 75 or 100 different counties of the UK & Ireland.
Tad Lancucki Trophy:
To be presented annually to the 100 Marathon Club Member who has completed a marathon or ultra in the most different counties of the UK & Ireland in a calendar year.
Aims:
To encourage runners to enter UK & Ireland marathons and ultras they have not run before.
To encourage runners to support new UK & Ireland marathons and ultras.
To encourage runners who have only run road marathons to try the off-road and ultra experience.
Rules:
1) A member must have completed a marathon or ultra as defined by the 100 Marathon Club in its rules.
2) To count a county the event route must have started, finished or passed through the claimed county.
3) A marathon or ultra can only be counted once. i.e. if the event starts in Kent and finishes in East Sussex then you can claim Kent or East Sussex not both.
4) The Lifetime Challenge and the Annual Tad Lancucki Trophy are totally separate. i.e. for an event that starts in Kent and finishes in East Sussex you could claim Kent for the Lifetime Challenge and East Sussex for the Tad Lancucki Trophy.
5) Once a member has submitted their list of 50, 75 or 100 counties then they cannot change those claimed counties.
6) Any event can only be claimed one time only, even if the route covers multiple counties and the event completed multiple times.
7) For multiple stage events the maximum number of counties claimed cannot exceed the number of marathons or ultras counted. For example the Trans Britian Race counts as one ultra, therefore only one county can be claimed. The XRNG Druid's Three Day Challenge counts as three marathons so a maximum of three counties can be claimed.
8) Races which no longer exist can still be claimed.
9) For some events that no longer exist or where the precise route isn't known then we will accept that the route passed through the claimed counties on the members honour.
10) For members to be considered for The Tad Lancucki Trophy they must submit their annual list of claimed counties at least a week before the 100 Marathon Club AGM.
Forms:
Forms listing the counties are available in Word, PDF or Excel (simple version with automatic count) from the forms page.