Following on from the club survey and discussions in the committee, we have decided to have a go at organizing a club championship. The idea being to try to encourage participation in races as well as providing an objective basis for awarding annual awards for performance. The winners of the men's and women's competition will be awarded their prize at the annual club dinner early in 2008.
The format we have come up with is intended to recognize:
1) Participation
2) Performance
3) Age
The scoring system is slightly complicated so as to be as fair as possible, but I'm sure we'll get the hang of it.
There will be 8 races designated as club championship events. In addition you can take part in any Marathon and any Long Hill Race.
1. Participation
3 points will be awarded for participation in any of these 10 events (so if you run in all 8 races and do a marathon and a long hill race you will score 30 points) .
2. Performance
You must compete in at least 5 of these events to qualify. Your best 5 scores will be counted. Scores will be calculated based on your time relative to the winner of the event. The formula is as follows:
2- (your time/winner's time) x 10
e.g. if we take Adrian's time at Lochaber: 3.43 = 223 minutes
2- (223/155) x 10 = 5.6
Any performance which is over twice the winner's time will unfortunately score zero.
3. Age
Your performance score is then multiplied by your age category based on the following categories:
Men: M30, M40, M50, M60
Women: W25, W35, W45, W55
E.g. 1.
If you are male, 37 years old and scored 8 points based on performance your score would be multiplied by 1.3 to give 10.4 points.
E.g. 2.
If you are a 47 year old woman you would score 8x1.45=11.6 and so on.
The races we have chosen are, for the most part, local and a mixture of road and hill races. They also correspond well with the races mentioned by you all in the survey (See race calendar for details):
1. Dumyat
2. Kinnoull
3. Knock
4. Auchterarder (Lang Toon) 10K
5. Brig Bash 5 mile
6. Comrie Fun Run
7. Pitlochry 10K
8. Glen Clova Half Marathon
9. Any marathon (note: only one marathon to count)
10. Any Long Hill race such as Stuc a Chroin, Jura, Pentlands (note: only one to count)
Just to let you see how this will all work I've had a go at a league table based on recent Marathon results and we have an interesting situation developing!
1. Adrian Wake: 3 participation + (5.6 performance x 1.5 age) = 11.4
2. Ian Beattie: 3 + (5.9 x 1.4) = 11.3
3. Vic Johnstone: 3 + (4.7 x 1.5) = 10.1
4. Eric Sidebottom: 3 + (4.1 x 1.6) = 9.6
5. Simon Wake: 3 + (2.1 x 1.4) = 6.0
I hope you will all be supportive of taking part in the championship. It's really only intended as a bit of fun and a way of focussing our participation at races.
If you have any suggestions or comments then please do add them!
The format we have come up with is intended to recognize:
1) Participation
2) Performance
3) Age
The scoring system is slightly complicated so as to be as fair as possible, but I'm sure we'll get the hang of it.
There will be 8 races designated as club championship events. In addition you can take part in any Marathon and any Long Hill Race.
1. Participation
3 points will be awarded for participation in any of these 10 events (so if you run in all 8 races and do a marathon and a long hill race you will score 30 points) .
2. Performance
You must compete in at least 5 of these events to qualify. Your best 5 scores will be counted. Scores will be calculated based on your time relative to the winner of the event. The formula is as follows:
2- (your time/winner's time) x 10
e.g. if we take Adrian's time at Lochaber: 3.43 = 223 minutes
2- (223/155) x 10 = 5.6
Any performance which is over twice the winner's time will unfortunately score zero.
3. Age
Your performance score is then multiplied by your age category based on the following categories:
Men: M30, M40, M50, M60
Women: W25, W35, W45, W55
E.g. 1.
If you are male, 37 years old and scored 8 points based on performance your score would be multiplied by 1.3 to give 10.4 points.
E.g. 2.
If you are a 47 year old woman you would score 8x1.45=11.6 and so on.
The races we have chosen are, for the most part, local and a mixture of road and hill races. They also correspond well with the races mentioned by you all in the survey (See race calendar for details):
1. Dumyat
2. Kinnoull
3. Knock
4. Auchterarder (Lang Toon) 10K
5. Brig Bash 5 mile
6. Comrie Fun Run
7. Pitlochry 10K
8. Glen Clova Half Marathon
9. Any marathon (note: only one marathon to count)
10. Any Long Hill race such as Stuc a Chroin, Jura, Pentlands (note: only one to count)
Just to let you see how this will all work I've had a go at a league table based on recent Marathon results and we have an interesting situation developing!
1. Adrian Wake: 3 participation + (5.6 performance x 1.5 age) = 11.4
2. Ian Beattie: 3 + (5.9 x 1.4) = 11.3
3. Vic Johnstone: 3 + (4.7 x 1.5) = 10.1
4. Eric Sidebottom: 3 + (4.1 x 1.6) = 9.6
5. Simon Wake: 3 + (2.1 x 1.4) = 6.0
I hope you will all be supportive of taking part in the championship. It's really only intended as a bit of fun and a way of focussing our participation at races.
If you have any suggestions or comments then please do add them!
Extra: We've added a "Joker" for remote Harriers to help mitigate the disadvantage of distance. If you are based over 50 miles from Crieff, you can substitute for any one of the named races above a more local race that is 5 miles or longer and run under Scottish Athletics or equivalent rules.
3 comments:
This is great!A fair bit of Maths for you to work out Phil but if you are happy to do the number crunching then I'm all for it. Should be an interesting battle for the top!!
Thanx for the consideration of the Joker, given my distance away- but I'm looking forward to the challenge!
Just to explain the caravaner's comment, we are allowing "remote" harriers (ie those living more than 50 miles from Strathearn) the chance to play a "joker" in a local race of their choice. So in principle, in order to qualify, they can run in any long hill race, any marathon, their "joker" race and then two of the official club championship races.
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