ABBEY RUNNERS ROAD RUNNING LEAGUE 2008
This year’s road running League began, as usual, the third week of January.  You have until the second Sunday of October to accumulate points.

Counting Races for July/August include- the Thorpe Edge 10k, Hyde Park 5k races 2/3, Pudsey 10k Harrogate Town Centre 10k and the York Millenium 5k...... See the home page for dates and click for details

The Rules
Counting Races
1. Local races that are nominated each month in the Newsletter count in the League. 
2. In addition to nominated races, you may claim points for (a)any standard, measured, road or track race at half marathon or longer, (b)any race not falling within rule 1 or 2(a), wherever run, if it is a championship race for which you are entered and eligible [criteria of eligibility depend on the race, e.g. you would ordinarily be eligible for a County championship by birth or 9 months residence; for a national vets’ championship by club affiliation, etc.]. 
3. For a series of short races of the same distance, such as the Hyde Park or John Carr 5Ks, you can claim only your best point-scoring race from the series. 
4. Results must be submitted to the editor so that points can be calculated [in the normal run of things this applies only to races under Rule 2 - for races within Rules 1 and 3 the editor is usually able to harvest results from the internet].
(Notes.  The number of counting races has to be limited.  Our League already counts far more races than any other club’s comparable League.  Races at non-standard distances are excluded because the WAVA Tables (see below) cannot cope with them.  Time trials, such as Hyde Park, are excluded because they are not races (also, they may be tend to be won in a time slower than a comparable competitive race, and thus give inflated points scores).  Abbeys are welcome to suggest additional counting races - email the Editor well before the race - but the committee’s decision is final.)

Calculating points
5. Total your 6 best results from counting races.
6. Points are calculated by comparing your official time with that of the winner (M or F as appropriate).  We compare your time and the winner’s time, e.g if in a 10K the M winner were to do 33m26secs and you (an M Abbey), ran 43m54secs, your score would be 2006secs/2634secs x 100 = 76.2 points.
7. For the Vets’ Competition you get a separate, age-graded score using the Age Graded Tables compiled by WAVA (World Association of Veteran Athletes) in 1994.  Your points calculated under Rule 6 are divided by the appropriate age factor (so, using the previous example, if you were a male aged 50, your age factor is 0.8980 and your age-graded score would be 76.2/0.8980=84.9 points; if you were a male aged 61, your age factor is 0.8156 and your age-graded score would be 76.2/0.8156=93.4 points, etc.  The maths are complicated, and it varies from race to race, but in very general terms, compared to a fellow vet of a younger age, you get between 0.5 and 1 point extra per year of age difference between you).