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Claim your handicap for the chance to win a Polar Heart Rate Monitor

The runbritain rankings system

Did you race this weekend? Most of the results are in and if you haven't yet claimed your handicap, now is the time to do it!

The runbritain hanidcap scoring system was launched just over five years ago and each year there has been an average of almost 10,000 signing up as the word and motivation spreads.

The number of sign-ups per year show a peak of 13,264 in 2012. With seven more racing weekends to complete this year, we have almost hit 10,000 for 2015 and are very close to a total of 60,000 since we began. The year-on-year figures are:

2010 - 7935
2011 - 8273
2012 - 13264
2013 - 10173

2014 - 10355

We have a Polar Heart Rate Monitor to give to the 60,000th claimant and last week another 113 runners signed up taking us close to the 60,000 mark.

From results already in of road and cross country races, the biggest races this weekend were:

Results Base Chiltern League (Inc British Cross Challenge) - 1,576 finishers

Cheshire 10K - 1,116 finishers

Start Fitness Metropolitan League - 1,009 finishers

Bushy parkrun - 865 finishers

Windmill 10K - 767 finishers

Scottish National Short Course Championships - 760 finishers

Hampshire League - 755 finishers

NI Uneven Age Group Championships XC - 703 finishers

QEOP 10K - 586 finishers

Heaton Harriers 10K - 548 finishers

Did you run either of these races or any others this weekend? If you haven't yet claimed your handicap or you know someone who hasn't, there's no better time to do it.

Jonny Davies (handicap -5.3) and Louise Damen (handicap 2.3) both enjoyed dominant wins in the opening round of the British Athletics Cross Challenge series at the Results Base Chiltern League. Both also reduced their handicaps: Jonny took 0.3 from his and Louise took a huge 1.2 from hers!

Some of the benefits of the runbritain handicap scoring system:

  1. It’s a unique handicap system for running. Just like golf you get a handicap from 0.0 – 36.0 giving runners of all abilities the chance to benchmark their progress and compare their results across a range of terrains and distances. The score automatically updates each time you race (once you have claimed) and rewards regular racing as well as automatically factoring in a degree of difficulty on races that are multi-terrain, hilly or windy.
  2. You can be a part of the Reward Runnning competition. This competition, sponsored by Polar, rewards runners who reduce their handicap score. The competition runs from March - October each year.
  3. You can be part of the National Running Ladder and check out where your handicap puts you compared to every other runner in the UK, e.g. does your 5k time put you higher than your friend’s half marathon and marathon times?
  4. You can find out where your times put you in the official UK road rankings as well as in your age group and postcode.
  5. You can log your training mileage, watch your progress graph rise and check out head-to-heads with your training partners.

All the information you need is on the runbritain rankings site. Sign up today and see if you can be our 60,000th claimant!