Whilst munching on my lunchtime sarnies, I stumbled across this Run Britain. Thought it quite interesting. Run Britain in association with everyones favourite running/stalking website Power of 10, has developed a handicap ranking system which takes into account the runners, races, and times over a the year and gives them a handicap score. (Don’t think it does age and gender) Here’s the official blurb….
‘The runbritain handicap scoring system is a unique way of measuring your progress and comparing yourself with other runners.
As in golf, handicaps go from scratch (zero, or even slightly negative for elite runners) to 36 with increments of 0.1.
To compute your handicap we take a combination of your recent best performances at 5K, 10K, Half Marathon & Marathon but adjusted for course difficulty and weather conditions using our special formulae.
This means that you can improve your handicap at any race as on harder courses you won’t need to run quite as quickly as on faster ones.’
I had a quick look at the results for some of us, there’s loads more but haven’t time to list everyone…for now. Plus if you log in you have a chance to add some of your races that don’t automatically show up which may effect your scores…….Happy stalking!
Chris Minns 0.9
Jim Addison 1.4
Clare Elms 3.2
Nolan Wilkens 3.9
Richard Selway 4.9
Will Withecombe 5.3
Marc Clayton 5.5
Mel Burdett 8.2
Helen Garrett 10.0
Anika Jones 10.2
Kate Marchant 11.3
