Date  

Organiser  

Event  

Venue  

Entry

 

Entry Closing Date 

Saturday 

14 June 

2025 

Roundshaw Downs 

parkrun 

VAC gathering  

5km parkrun 

Featuring VAC “mob match” gathering. 

Come along and meet VAC members. 

Roundshaw Downs - off Purley Way, Croydon. 

Start time: 9am.  

Course details. 

The start is close to the access gate at the end of Imperial Way. New parkrunners must register with parkrun to obtain a Barcode.  

Look out for VAC vests! 

Enter on the day (but need your Barcode) 

Sunday 

22 June 2025  

ENTRIES ARE OPEN!   

Ranelagh Harriers 

VAC’s 10km Road Championships  

Ranelagh 10k 

Also Surrey 10k Championships and part of the Surrey Road League.  

Race HQ, Kew and Ham Sports Association, Riverside Drive, Richmond TW10 7QA 

Start time: 9am 

Details and Entry on the Ranelagh Harriers website  

VAC members enter for your First Claim club. Entry to VAC championship is automatic. VAC i ndividual medals in five-year age groups (not awarded on the day). It’s helpful if VAC members inform the Entries Secretary if you have entered. 

Race fills up early. Closes when full. 

Wednesday 

25 June 2025 

ENTRIES ARE OPEN!   

VAC 

VAC Championships!  

VAC 5,000m Track Championships OPEN TO ALL MASTERS ATHLETES 

Tooting Bec Athletics Track, 

Tooting Bec Road, 

London 

SW17 8AR  

Details and Online entry on OpenTrack  

First race at 6.30pm (tbc) 

Four seeded races,  

slowest to fastest.  

Sunday 

22 June 

11.59pm 

Saturday 

28 June 2025 

ENTRIES ARE OPEN!   

Eastern Masters AC (EMAC) 

EMAC Track & Field Championships 

Sandy Athletics Track, 

Medusa Way, Sandy 

SG19 1BL 

Details and online entry on OpenTrack . EMAC have invited VAC members to enter. Priority will be given to EMAC members until 6 June. 

20 June 

Sunday  

29 June 2025 

ENTRIES ARE OPEN!   

Istead & Ifield Harriers and BMAF Services 

British Masters 30km Multi-Terrain Championships 

Part of the North Downs 30k Trail Race 

Cyclopark, The Tollgate, Watling Street, Gravesend, Kent DA11 7NP  

Details and Online Entry for BMAF championship on OpenTrack . 

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Closing date for British Masters entries 15 June.   

Saturday 

5 July 2025 

Bushy parkrun 

Usual 5km parkrun, open to all.  

Also featuring the annual Octogenarian and Nonagenarian gathering and celebration.  

Bushy Park 

Teddington. Look out for the sign “80 AND OVER. MEET HERE!”.  

Start time: 9am 

Course details . 

O ctogenarians and supporters are welcome. Includes bubbly and cupcakes!  

Enter on the day (but need your parkrun Barcode) 

Tuesday 

8 July 2025 

ENTRIES ARE OPEN!   

VAC 

VAC Battersea Park Summer Series: Race 4 

5K Masters Road Race  

5K Open Race Walk  

Battersea Park, London 

SW11 4NJ 

Race HQ at the Bandstand. 

7pm start for Road Race 

6.55pm start for Race Walk. 

Details and Online entry on OpenTrack  

Location/course map 

Participants’ Instructions 

Midday 

7 July 

Sunday  

17 August 2025 

England Masters Athletics Association 

British Masters Inter Area Outdoor Track & Field Challenge (VAC team to enter) 

Competition for members of BMAF Area Clubs.  

Costello Stadium, Anlaby Park Road North,
Hull
HU4 6XQ  

Men & Women  

Age bands: 35-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70+. 

Events (provisional): 100m 200m 400m 800m 1500m, 3000m, ShortH, 2km walk, 4 x 100m, LJ HJ TJ SP DT JT HT. Fewer events for older age bands. One VAC person per event per age band. VAC vest necessary.  

VAC Team selected in advance. 

Expressions of interest to Entries Secretary  

Sunday 

24 August 2025 

ENTRIES ARE OPEN!   

BMAF Services  

British Masters Pentathlon, 5000m Track Champs & Open Meeting  

The Pingles Stadium, Nuneaton 

Details and Online entry on OpenTrack.  

Sunday 

10 August 2025 11:59pm 

Monday (Bank holiday) 25 August 

2025 

ADVANCE NOTICE!   

VAC 

Subject to recruiting required officials.  

VAC and London Masters Open Track and Field Championships 

Sir Mo Farah Athletics Track, 

St Mary’s University, 

Waldegrave Rd 

Strawberry Hill 

Twickenham 

TW1 4SX  

Details and online entry on OpenTrack in due course.  

UKA registration mandatory.  

Qualified officials needed. Expenses paid. Please contact tfsec@vetsac.org.uk if you can help. 

18 August 

Wednesday 

10 Sept 2025 

ENTRIES ARE OPEN!   

VAC 

VAC Championships!  

VAC 10,000m Track Championships  

OPEN TO ALL MASTERS ATHLETES  

Millennium Arena, Battersea Park. 

London  

SW11 4NJ  

Details and entry on OpenTrack  

Three races seeded slowest to fastest.  

First race at 6.00pm (tbc) 

Midday Monday  

8 Sept 

12-14 Sept 2025 

BMAF Services  

British Masters Track and Field Championships 

Moorways Stadium, Moor Lane, Allenton, Derby  

DE24 9HY 

Details and Online entry on OpenTrack in due course. 

To be announced. 

Saturday 27 September 2025 

ENTRIES ARE OPEN!   

Vitality Westminster Mile events 

VAC One Mile Championships!  

Vitality Westminster Mile 

VAC Medals in five- year age groups.  

The Mall, London. Assemble in Green Park, London  

SW1A 1AA  

Info and entry on the Vitality Masters Mile website. 

VAC members should select Adult Wave One at 9.30am and select VAC or Veterans AC as the Running Club (on drop-down menu). Please inform Maggie entries@vetsac.org.uk if you have entered. 

Enter early! 

Entry closes a week before the event, but the race is usually full before then. 

Saturday  

27 September 2025 

ADVANCE NOTICE  

England Masters Athletics Association (EMAA) 

England Masters Cross Country Trial and Selection Race for the England Team for the British & Irish Masters CC International in Leeds on 15 November. 

Within the North Staffs Cross Country League meeting at Betley Court Farm, Betley, Crewe, Cheshire, CW3 9BH 

Open to all UKA Registered members of BMAF area clubs in England. Details and entry on OpenTrack in due course.  

To be considered for selection for the England team, entrants must also complete an a pplication form including a list of relevant athletic performances.  

20 Sept.  

(To be confirmed) 

8-19 October 2025 

ENTRIES ARE OPEN!   

European Masters Athletics  

European Masters Athletics Stadia (Track & Field) Championships 

Madeira, Portugal  

Details on Event website . 

Details and Online entry on OpenTrack  

Tuesday 

2 Sept. 

Saturday 

15 November 2025 

Country Associations of England, Scotland, Wales, N. Ireland and Republic of Ireland  

British & Irish Masters Cross Country International 

England is the host country. 

Venue: 

Roundhay Park, Mansion Lane, Roundhay, Leeds LS8 2HH  

Each participating country has a selection procedure. There will be a trial race on 27 September for the England team (details above). 

England team selection meeting one week after the trial race. 

Sunday 

30 November 2025 

Organised and hosted by VAC on behalf of BMAF Services 

.  

British Masters 

5k Road Championship 

The premier Masters 5k road races!  

Battersea Park,  

London 

SW11 4NJ 

Race HQ at Bandstand. 

Medals ceremony at the nearby Pear Tree café.  

Location/Course Map  

Details to be confirmed. Two races. Provisional start times 10.45am and 11.30am 

Traffic-free on a flat circular tarmac course.  

Individual medals in five-year age groups.  

Team medals in ten-year age groups.  

Sunday 

23 Nov or earlier if the races are full.