Run the Grand Prix events and set your 10k and Half Marathon bests

Question - How do you set a personal best time?

Answer - Train smart, recover smart, live smart and pick your race!

And it would seem that there are no better races than the runbritain Grand Prix events for great competition, great organisation and the fastest times in the rankings.

In yesterday's news, we published the standards for the top 250 rankings in the 10k and half marathon for men and women and today we look at the events that contributed to the 2014 figures, noting the impact of the five Grand Prix events on the road:

10k Men

Leeds - 53 (Grand Prix)
BUPA 10000 - 18 (Grand Prix)
Trafford - 18
Great Manchester - 14
Telford - 13
Salford - 10
Ribble Valley - 10
Bristol - 9 (Grand Prix)
Stirling - 9

Women 10k
Leeds - 33 (Grand Prix)
BUPA 10000 - 16 (Grand Prix)
Bristol - 10 (Grand Prix)
Trafford - 10
Great Manchester - 8
Stirling - 8
Swansea - 7
Telford - 7

Men Half Marathon
Reading - 38 (Grand Prix)
Cardiff - 25 (Grand Prix)
GNR - 17
Bath - 10
Great Scottish - 9

Women Half Marathon
Reading - 26 (Grand Prix)
Cardiff - 16 (Grand Prix)
Bristol - 13
Great Scottish - 11
Bath - 8
Wilmslow - 8
GNR - 7
Gosport - 7
 

The races for 2015 have been announced as follows:

Vitality Reading Half Marathon      -   Sunday 22^nd March -     (incorporating English Championships)

Bupa London 10,000                        -   Monday 25^th May   -   (incorporating British Championships)

Bristol 10k                                            - Sunday 31^st May   

Cardiff 10k                                          - Sunday 6^th September 

Lloyds Bank Cardiff Half Marathon  - Sunday 4^th October       (incorporating British Championships)

Age UK Leeds Abbey Dash 10k      - Sunday 15^th November     (incorporating English Championships)

Full details of the runbritain Grand Prix rules and points are available at /run-britain-grand-prix