Ashford and District RRC started a series of virtual races last week and opened it up to all. Every week runners are set a target distance to race by themselves while observing current guidelines on social distancing. Runners submit their times and at the end of the week A&D publish a list of results. There are points for individual place in your age category and team points. Race times in the overall category are given as age grade adjusted times. Your age grade is your race time as a percentage of the world record for someone of your age. It is then used to calculate a time that is that percentage of the actual world record – this is your age graded time.
Result Categories
- Overall Male / Female individual results (based on age graded times).
- Overall team results. Cumulative times of the fastest three runners in each team (age graded times).
- Mixed team results. Fastest 2 male & fastest 2 female runners (age graded times).
- Age category results (actual times).
All scores will count toward league tables as the weeks go by.
In the opening week the target distance was 5 miles and it saw a strong start for the club.
Team scores
The men’s team of first three to score (McGilloway, Tyler, Gillett) finished second behind a strong Ashford AC team securing 9 points in the process. The ladies scored a solid 6 points (Green, Windsor, Parsons). The mixed team of first two women and two men (Green, Windsor, McGilloway, Tyler) took third to score 8 points.
Individual scores
Overall
In the individual aged graded overall category with only the top 30 to score the club managed to get five men runners in scoring positions – McGilloway 28pts, Tyler 22, Gillett 18, Crew 12, Steele 2, with Wild and Warren narrowly missing out. Two ladies got into individual scoring positions – Green 8pt and Windosr 7.
Age Category
Green and Windsor both scored again in the F35-44 catgory with 5pts and 2pts.
Dave Tyler finished 3rd in the men’s under 40 to get 8pts and Nick Steel was 11th just 10seconds off scoring
The mens 40-49 saw three FRC runners in the top 10, McGilloway and Gillett occupied the top two positions and Warren 8th.
Darren Crew and Daren Wild finished 6th and 8th respectively in the M50-59
Full Results
The complete results are available in the attached file (check the website if it doesn’t appear in the email version)