First handicap of the 2023 season with a few tweaks from previous sessions.

We had a total of 53 runners, with Scott Aiken the first home in a time of 19:35, Adrian “Del Boy” Edwards in second place in 19:50, outsprinting Mark Holloway in 3rd place by a second.

The first lady was Anna Sikorska in 12th place in a time of 23:38.

The new starting direction of running up the pineapple first seems to have gone down well with the runners as 39 of the 53 did a sub-30!

The results full results are available via Webscorer using the button below.

We have added age grading as an option to the results, that use the WMA (World Master Athletics) table for a 5km road race as they don’t have a table for a really hilly trail race! When you view of overall results, you can change the options drop-down options in the header, to view the adjusted time, so the age-graded time and the Difference can be changed to % age record. (see images below).

This produces some interesting results and probably a realistic balance as this would have switched Del and Scott around and bumped Rosemary Baines from 30th to 5th.

We are not running the normal points table for the 2023 season. However, with Webscorer we are running time-based and age-graded points tables. We will see how these go but the age-graded one looks like an interesting replacement, for the normal improvement-based tables we use to run.

We have added an all-new time-tracking table to the handicap results page, so you can track your progress over the year. There is a little bar chart at the bottom, so if you filter the results by your name, this will update with your results. This can be found on the handicap page along with all the other results.

Photo, courtesy of Chas, can be found at the link below or via our gallery.

The next race is on the 25th of February and new runners can register now.