Members 5km Handicap Series

Sudbury Joggers are commencing a series of six 5km wednesday events for our members in 2008, which will culminate in the top male and female of the series being awarded trophies at our annual xmas evening out.

Club night dates for members 5km series
07 May
04 June
25 June - Standings updated below
23 July
13 August
10 September

The series is handicapped, mainly based on the better of your best 5km/5 mile time since Jan 2007. Other race times will be used where these distances are not available, or best estimates used when no times are available. Handicap times will be rounded to the nearest 5 seconds. View Handicap Times Here

View the 5km Handicap Route

How the handicap will work

The runners will start the 5kms depending upon the handicap time given to them, with a maximum finish time of 35 minutes. So for example, someone expected to take 30 minutes would start 5 minutes later, someone expected to take 20 minutes would start a further 10 minutes back!

The official stopwatch will be started at 7:35pm, if you miss your allotted start time through arriving late, then you will have to run faster to catch up! All runners should finish at 8:10pm, based on their handicap.

If you beat your handicap time, then your handicap time will be adjusted accordingly for the next race in the series, making it more challenging for you next time. Also, if you improve your times in any other race between our 5km events, then your handicap will be adjusted to reflect this for the next event.

You need to complete 4 of the 6 events in order to qualify for the series, however there is no reason why you can not use just one or two of the runs if you wish to just sharpen up your pace. The events are taking place over the summer months, which is generally when members are taking part in mainly 5 mile and 10km races, and so this will be a great addition for your speedwork.

Scoring points

As members finish they will be awarded points on the following basis. 1st 20 points, 2nd 19 pts, 3rd 18 pts, etc, etc... These points will be accumulated over the series, and your best 4 scores out of the 6 events will be taken in order to find your final score. Points will be awarded seperately for Male and Female.

A bonus of 3 points will also be awarded each time that you set a new personal best time for the course, these will all count towards your total score.

It is appreciated that in order to ensure the timings are correct that 2 members will need to work a stopwatch, and take times and positions as members finish. Members finish timings will be as per the stopwatch used, not individuals watches. Should the stopwatch fail, then only positions will be recorded on that occassion. Any individual undertaking the timing job instead of running will be awarded 15 points, up to a maximum of two occassions per series. If many members wish to help with scoring on one event, then priority will first go to members that have not helped scoring previously.

In the event of a tie at the end of the series, the member with the highest placed finish will take the award. So, if two runners finish with the same points at the end of the series, but one members top position was 2nd, and the other members top placing was 4th, then the member that gained a second place would take 1st overall. If members are still tied, then we shall determine which runner has improved most in time over the series.

Series scoring

For individual 5km event finishing times please see the results pages.

Male Scores after 2 events