The rankings below are based upon the data I use to determine our start times in the club Christmas Handicap (probably Friday December 27th. this year); namely the Summer Series races, Round the Runway and your best times in the Wilmslow, Lyme Park and Bramhall parkruns. The rankings are unofficial and need to be taken with a pinch of salt, everyone complains the handicaps are unfair, including me, I finished last in 2018.
106 Richard Coen 142 Sally Price
115 Andrew Cleal 144 Laura Fairhurst
116 James Speedie 144 Tracy Bown
117 Jim Pendrill 148 Kate Sutton
120 Gareth Read 148 Colin Walton
120 Trevor Morris 148 Oliver Johnstone
120 Claire Clancy 151 Mark Crossland
121 Mike Hill 151 Nicky Mowat
122 Richard Harrison 152 Angela McCarthy
123 James MacDonald 154 Nicola Coppock
124 Jarrod Homer 155 Alan Turner
127 Graham Duce 159 Catriona Marshall
127 Tim Billington 160 Kathryn Patrick
131 Nicola Reece 161 Chris Cannon
131 Richard Lawson 162 Rachael Peers
133 Paul Garnett 163 Janet Wyles
134 Louisa Harrison 164 Emily Moss
135 Paul Norris 165 Sue Strang
137 Janine Ellis 166 Catherine Mellor
137 Julian Stott 166 Ian Ashcroft
138 Diane Bygrave 172 Julie Lucas
139 Colin Caisley 173 John Porteous
141 Ian Smallwood 187 Roy Pownall
What does the number mean? I would expect someone with a score of 150 to run a race in around 50 minutes that a runner with a score of 120 would run in 40 minutes. The base (100) is somewhat lost in the mists of time but I think 100 is comes from Mike Halman’s (now a farmer in New Zealand) times in 2005. Damian, in his youth, dipped under the 100.
You should be included if you have run three or more of the races above, please let me know if I have missed you out. Also do the results feel right, appreciate it if you would let me know if yours or someone else’s looks wrong, I’ll check my arithmetic.
Ian