Club Championship 2022

There are 14 races across the year across a mix of distances, elevation and terrain and they’ll even be an away race! It will be your best 8 races that count towards the club championship over the year. There’s also the ‘Andrew Gardner award’ for anyone who does all 14

January 29th – Huddersfield parkrun – (5k, tarmac)
February 27th – Snake Lane (10 mile, road, flat)
March 6th – Norton 9 (9 mile, road, undulating)
April 3rd – Baildon Boundary Half (13.1 mile, trail, hilly)
May 15th – Fountains 10k (10k, mixed terrain, undulating)
May 18th – Newmillerdam Quacky Trail Race (5k, trail, undulating)
June 12th – Burton Leonard 10k (10k, mixed terrain, undulating)
June 16th – Beamsley Beacon (5.5 mile, Fell race)
July 6th – Helen Windsor 10k (10k, road)
July 20th – Priory 10k (10k, mixed terrain)
September 18th – Humber coastal (Away trip – half, road) – on sale
October 30th – Wistow 10k (10k, road, flat) – on sale
November 20th – Clowne half (13.1 mile, road, undulating) – on sale
December 11th – The South Leeds Bah Humbug 10k (mixed terrain / mud) – on sale

What is the STAC club championship?

The club championship is across 14 selected races over 2022. A runners best 8 races will count towards the championship. There will be prizes for best female and male runner and the league table will be updated throughout the year.

There will also be the ‘Andrew Gardner award’ for any runner who does all 14 races. The award is named after Andrew who incredibly did 339 consecutive club races between 1992 and 2020. Nobody has won this award since Richard Herrington in 2017, will they this year?

For the races chosen, we try to get a good variety of events; from distance, size, terrain and hills!

All 1st and 2nd claim members are welcome to join any or all the races. There is usually a good STAC turnout on all events. So even if you can only make one or two it’s a great way to do a run that you wouldn’t normally do with other STACs!

How does scoring work?

There is a maximum 400 points possible per race.

The fastest STAC will get 400 points; 200 points for the fastest time and 200 points for being best STAC.

Everyone else gets points related to how fast they were compared to the fastest time (so if a person was 25% slower they would get 150/200 points) and their STAC placing in that race (so if they were 5th fastest STAC 195/200) points. A total of 345/400 points for this example.

There are 14 races in 2022 and the best 8 will count towards the final placing in the table.

Throughout the year the club championship table will be updated as follows:

Race 1 - Best 1 from 1 race
Race 2 - 2 from 2
Race 3 - 2 from 3
Race 4 - 3 from 4
Race 5 - 3 from 5
Race 6 - 4 from 6
Race 7 - 4 from 7
Race 8 - 5 from 8
Race 9 - 6 from 9
Race 10 - 6 from 10
Race 11 - 7 from 11
Race 12 - 7 from 12
Race 13 - 8 from 13
Race 14 - 8 from 14