Chiltern Wonderland 50, 2026
Men's race
| 1 | Oates, JackGBR | 6:28:14 |
| 2 | Jones, DominicGBR | 7:10:53 |
| 3 | Grover, JackGBR | 7:11:09 |
Women's race
| 1 | Nicholls, LynneGBR | 8:09:45 |
| 2 | Chapman, HelenGBR | 8:56:03 |
| 3 | Whittaker, BethGBR | 9:08:49 |
The field
- Middle half of the field finished between
- 9:45:45 and 11:46:34
- Finishing for the first time
- 161 of 201 (80.1%)
- Beat their own time here
- 16 of 40
- Oldest and youngest
- 65 and 21
- From United Kingdom
- 88.1%
- Nationalities
- 18
- Finished in the final hour
- 34 of 201
- Last finisher
- 12:58:32 (0:01:28 to spare)
- Under 8 hours
- 11 (5.5%)
- Under 10 hours
- 67 (33.3%)
- Under 12 hours
- 167 (83.1%)
Jack Oates won the men’s race in 6:28:14, 42 minutes 39 seconds clear of Dominic Jones. Lynne Nicholls took the women’s race in 8:09:45, finishing 46 minutes 18 seconds ahead of Helen Chapman, who came home in 8:56:03.
Behind Oates, the race for second was almost a dead heat. Jones finished in 7:10:53 and Jack Grover in 7:11:09, 16 seconds apart after more than seven hours on the course. The women’s podium spread out the other way. Chapman finished 12 minutes 46 seconds ahead of Beth Whittaker, third in 9:08:49, and Nicholls’s margin over Chapman was 3.6 times that gap.
The finishers came from 18 nationalities, but the field was overwhelmingly a home one. Of everyone who finished, 88.1% were from the United Kingdom.
Most of the gap between the women and the men was at the front, and it narrowed sharply behind the leaders. The women’s winner finished well behind Oates, but in the middle of the field the two races sat close together. The median woman came home in 10:59:21 and the median man in 10:34:30. The women were a minority, 41 of the 201 finishers, and the slower half of them ran close to the men around them.
This was not a young field. The median finisher was 46, while the median winner at this distance is 36. The chart below shows how finishing times spread across those ages.
The limit was 13:00:00, and the last finisher came in at 12:58:32, just inside it. That last finisher was a woman. The last man home finished in 12:48:45.
