Championships

Rules

Eligibility

There will be male and female championship awards for both Age Adjusted (AA) and First Past the Post (FPTP) categories.

This is open to all active club members. It is automatically calculated free of charge (excluding race entry fee) providing they fulfil the following criteria:

• Runners have completed a minimum of any 10 races of the selected 18 club championship races for the year.
• Club runners must wear T&SH vests/shirts whilst participating in these events and,
• They must fill T&SH on any race entry forms/documents where prompted.
• Members are considered as active provided they have signed and paid for their current membership. Memberships can be signed and paid here.

Scoring

Points are awarded to club members completing each race based on their finishing position (First Past the Post category) and their overall time (Age Adjusted category) against all other club members.

The Age Adjusted category is calculated by combining a runner’s finishing time with the most recent World Masters Athletics (WMA) Age Factor, to produce an age-adjusted time. This provides a way of measuring and comparing the quality of running performances, adjusting for age, sex, and race distance. It’s the same system used by Parkrun etc.

Points are awarded on completion of a race to every club member, with maximum points of 100 awarded to 1^st position, 98 for 2^nd, 96 for 3^rd and so on down to 50 for 26^th place, where it then reduces by single points as 49 for 27^th, 48 for 28^th and so on, in each category.

If a race is postponed or cancelled Thirsk and Sowerby Harriers committee will make a decision regarding a substitute race as soon as possible, taking into account relevant factors such as date clashes, terrain etc.

Please note that, for races that have chip timing in place, your championship race time will be recorded as the “gun time” (time from the gun to finish line) rather than “chip time” (time from start line to finish line). This ensures we rank everyone by their finish order across the line. However don’t despair, you won’t miss out on a PB, because your race time recorded by Run Britain / Power of 10 (for personal performance tracking purposes) will be based on your chip time (this is to ensure that mass start events allow for time to cross the start line).

Awards

There will be awards for positions 1, 2 & 3 in both AA and FPTP categories and for both male and female members.

Should a member place well in both AA and FPTP categories, only the highest position will be awarded (e.g. if they are 1^st FPTP and 3^rd AA, 1^st prize FPTP will be awarded) with their lower position then awarded to the next best placed member in that category.

Should the position be the same for both Categories, AA and its award will take priority (e.g. 2^nd and 2^nd) with the FPTP position passing on to the next qualified member.

Should two club members finish with the same points total in a category based on their 10 best results, the position will then be awarded to the member with the highest total points score from all 18 championship races.

All members completing 10 or more championship races in a calendar year will receive a recognition certificate. Should any club members complete all 18 races of the club championship, this achievement and consistent club representation will be recognised at the annual awards evening.

Past Championship Results

2024 Results

2023 Results