Introducing the 3-mile handicap
The Three Mile Handicap takes place on the last Tuesday of each month from April to August for members of all abilities. It is a roughly three mile time trial on Wimbledon Common.
At the first event you set your handicap time for the course and at subsequent events you aim to improve it. At subsequent events we have a staggered start in order of slowest to fastest based on past handicap time or a predicted 5k time.The idea is everyone finishes at the exact same time if each runner runs their predicted time exactly. The aim is to chase those in front and come first, which would account for an improvement in your last time. Anyone can win!
Registration and course
On the last Tuesday of the month between April to August members register from 18:45 at the Wimbledon Common Tea Rooms. Registration is free and does not need to be done in advance. We start at 19:15 and it is a two lap reverse Parkrun figure of 8 course commencing just before junction with Inner Park Ride and ending by trough/parkrun finish. Volunteer marshals and flour mark the course. After the run we head to the London Scottish Golf Club next door for drinks.
Ralph explains how the scoring works
As shown in the video, we allocate points from 150 downwards at the finish line, so the person with most points at end of series wins. It is all about having fun and improving your own time!
You don’t have to take part in all events in the series, although this helps for earning points for overall series winner, please join for any events you are available.
As well as having an overall winner of the series, we hand out small prizes to the first female and male at each event in the series. 3 Mile Handicap Table 2024 Final
| Wimbledon Windmilers 3 Mile Handicap Winners | ||||
| Year | Winner | Runner Up | Third | Participants |
| 2024 | Mark Berry | Sue Glanville | Sally Jones | 124 |
| 2023 | David Shute | Jeremy Copp | Martin Jimack | 115 |
| 2022 | Claire Morgan | Charlotte Rutherford | Giorgio Santini | 117 |
| 2021 | Stephanie Langton | Anne Davies | Michaela Williams-Black | 98 |
| 2020 | Not Run | Not Run | Not Run | |
| 2019 | James Spinks | Richard Weiss | Andrew Alcock | 148 |
| 2018 | David Shute | John Gorst | Ella Waddingham | 145 |
| 2017 | David Turner | Ella Waddingham | Phil McElhinney | 145 |
| 2016 | Julie Burgess | Nick McKay | Polina Stucke | 121 |
| 2015 | Ricky Wood | Andy Allan | Denise Barnett & Gavin Mclaughlan | 153 |
| 2014 | Neil Guthrie | Phil McElhinney | – | 168 |
| 2013 | Keith Lines | Neil Guthrie | Nick Mckay | 223 |
| 2012 | Jonathan Barnett | Barbara Gloor | Peter Archer | 189 |
| 2011 | John Carter | Derek Gilby | Beverly Walker | 214 |
| 2010 | Alison Russell | Daniel Doy | Denise Winter | 254 |
| 2009 | Toni Riding | Michael Daniels | Jonathan Barnett | 216 |
| 2008 | Lorna Young | |||
