Sophie Burgess is 27,000th handicap claimant
Congratulations to Sophie Burgess who is the 27,000th runbritain handicap claimant, and in celebration of reaching that landmark figure, she wins a pair of Sennheiser headphones.
There are many reasons to claim your free handicap score:
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 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?
3. Be part of ‘Reward Running’ and be in with a chance of winning an adidas mi-coach or Sennheiser headphones if your score shows the greatest improvement - it’s free to enter too
4. Find out where your times put you in the official UK road rankings
5. And finally...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.
Finally, apologies for the slight delay in announcing the winners of September's Reward Running competition on the runbritain site. Individual prize winners should have now been contacted by email (so long as their contact details are correct!) and names will be published on the website ASAP.