Club Handicap

The Club Handicap is an informal race, run twice a year (spring an autumn) over a 4 mile course and it gives everyone the chance to win! Runners start according to their speed, with the fastest runners starting last and everyone finishing at the same time (theoretically!) The date for the next Handicap race will be posted here when decided.

Autumn 2011 Handicap (Results)

Well done to David O'Neil for winning the handicap. A great run, finishing in 32 mins 37 seconds with a race pace of 7:57 mins per mile.  Beating his expected race pace an incredible 1 min 21 seconds.

Second place was Brendan Cachman in a time of 34 : 02 and an impressive pace of  06:35 mins per mile. With Carol Ransom in third place in a time of 34:33 and a race pace of 07:22 mins per mile (She will soon be moving up from running with Jim's group to join the Elite runners!!!)

The fastest runner on the course was Paul Adams at a race pace of 05:16 mins per mile, but the handicap had him finishing in 25th place with a time of 36:12.

The biggest complaint was from President Sally, who was initially given a very generous handicap, but after several objections from other runners, her handicap was corrected. She still managed to beat her new predicted race pace by 00:19 per mile with a very impressive average pace of 06:09 mins per mile, finishing in 37th place.

Well done to Danny Digweed, Lizzie Gill, & Ciara Moriarty who all ran with 3 seconds of their expected race pace

Overall there were 53 runners. 49 of these runners beat their predicted race pace (I need to make more agressive handicaps!) All runners finished within 7 mins of the first place runner. If you exclude the first 4 runners and the last 4 runners, the remaining 45 runners finished with a 3 minute window.

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