Harrogate Road League Stats

2008 Season

• 512 club members (previous record 495) raced in one or more of the 5 main races, totalling 1373 (record 1484) runs:
  

  	Runners	Runs
  Army Foundation College	23	43
  Dragons Running Club	57	152
  Harrogate H&AC	72	197
  Ilkley Harriers AC	84	197
  Leeds & Bradford Tri Club	14	33
  Link RC	9	29
  Nidd RR	30	74
  Otley AC	51	153
  Ripon RR	54	157
  R&ZH	20	50
  Swaledale RR	55	171
  Thirsk & Sowerby H	25	64
  Wetherby H	18	53

• On average we had 274 runners (record 285) per race:
  

  1 Middleton, Ilkley Harriers	324 - a League record
  2 Starbeck, Nidd Valley RR	289
  3 Thirsk, Thirsk & Sowerby Harriers	287
  4 Garforth, Leeds & Bradford Tri Club	237
  5 Hudswell, Swaledale RR	236
  6 Ripon Handicap	197 - a League record

2007 Season

• 495 club members (previous record 466) raced in one or more of the 5 main races, totalling 1384 (previous record 1265) runs:
  

  	Runners	Runs
  Dragons Running Club	50	142
  Harrogate H&AC	61	160
  Ilkley Harriers AC	90	242
  Leeds & Bradford Tri Club	17	44
  Link RC	11	28
  Nidd RR	39	118
  Otley AC	53	168
  Ripon RR	62	173
  R&ZH	24	65
  Swaledale RR	48	125
  Thirsk & Sowerby H	25	72
  Wetherby H	15	47

• On average we had 285 runners (previous record 240) per race:
  

  1 Otley 10k, Otley AC	308
  2 Pond Dale 5, RZH	249
  3 Beckwithshaw 6, Harrogate H&AC	319 - a League Record
  4 Harland Way 5, Wetherby Runners	276
  5 Esholt 5, Dragons RC	277
  6 Ripon Handicap	186

  Figures do not include a few guest runners.

2006 Season

• 429 club members raced in one or more of the 5 main races, totalling 1253 runs:
  

  	Runners	Runs
  Dragons Running Club	57	144
  Harrogate H&AC	49	151
  Ilkley Harriers AC	79	204
  Link RC	8	25
  Nidd RR	36	95
  Otley AC	47	157
  Ripon RR	40	129
  R&ZH	15	62
  Skipton AC	6	12
  Swaledale RR	52	166
  Thirsk & Sowerby H	22	64
  Wetherby H	18	44

• On average we had 209 runners per race:
  

  1 Otley, Otley AC	262
  2 Starbeck, Nidd Valley RR	256
  3 Hudswell, Swaledale RR	188
  4 Thirsk, Thirsk & Sowerby Harriers	185
  5 Esholt, Dragons RC	216
  6 Ripon Handicap	146

  Figures do not include a few guest runners.

2005 Season

• 466 club members raced in one or more of the 6 races, totalling 1444 runs:
  

  	Runners	Runs
  Dragons Running Club	59	158
  Harrogate H&AC	61	198
  Ilkley Harriers AC	104	295
  Link RC	8	20
  Nidd RR	31	103
  Otley AC	43	156
  Ripon RR	38	129
  R&ZH	17	45
  Skipton AC	15	36
  Swaledale RR	54	184
  Thirsk & Sowerby H	28	91
  Wetherby H	8	29

• On average we had 240 runners per race:
  

  1 Middleton, Ilkley HAC	292
  2 Esholt, Dragons RC	295
  3 Pond Dale 5, RZH	205
  4 Carleton, Skipton AC	249
  5 Beckwithshaw, Harrogate H&AC	224
  6 Ripon Handicap	179

  Figures do not include a few guest runners.

2004 Season

• 399 people raced in one or more of the 6 races, totalling 1090 runs:
  

  	Runners	Runs
  Dragons Running Club	51	121
  Harrogate H&AC	38	107
  Ilkley Harriers AC	59	173
  Link RC	5	8
  Nidd RR	33	81
  Otley AC	31	110
  Ripon RR	37	115
  R&ZH	21	48
  Skipton AC	13	27
  Swaledale RR	63	184
  Thirsk & Sowerby H	48	116

• On average we had 182 runners per race (190 in main League races):
  

  1 Skipton	200
  2 Starbeck	208
  3 Otley	182
  4 Thirsk	190
  5 Richmond	168
  6 Ripon Handicap	142

• Again this year the handicaps were based on speed over the season. This created some discrepancies as some courses were certainly slower than others (and maybe some courses need re-measuring?) Perhaps we should have reverted to the 2002 system where performances in each race were measured against some constant - in 2002 we used Ian (steady as a rock) Fisher as that constant. There was an opportunity for manual adjustment of the spreadsheet-calculated handicaps, but few clubs took it.
  And at the end of the day the 113 timed runers finished within a 4 minute range (well done again to Ripon's results recorders!).

2003 Season

• 381 people raced in one or more of the 5 races:
  

  Dragons Running Club	44
  Harrogate H&AC	36
  Ilkley Harriers AC	82
  Nidd RR	22
  Otley AC	42
  Ripon RR	41
  R&ZH	20
  Skipton AC	17
  Swaledale RR	40
  Thirsk & Sowerby H	37

• On average we had 180 runners per race (201 in main League races):
  

  1 Harlow Carr, Harrogate	223
  2 Denton, Ilkley	229 (a new League record)
  3 Otley	168
  5 Thirsk	184
  6 Ripon Handicap	95

• This year the handicaps were based on speed over the season.
  There was no manual adjustment to the spreadsheet-calculated handicap (there wasn't time to think between the Thirsk and Ripon races!).
  Discounting the first and last finishers, all finishers were within a 10 minute range, and about 90% of you finished within a 6 minute range (well done again to Ripon's results recorders!).

2002 Season

• 348 people raced in one or more of the 6 races:
  

  Harrogate H&AC	56
  Ilkley Harriers AC	78
  Nidd VRR	18
  Otley AC	39
  Ripon RR	27
  R&ZH	42
  Skipton AC	16
  Swaledale RR	39
  Thirsk & Sowerby H	33

  Together they raced over 5,111 miles (and goodness know how many sandwiches they ate in the post-race suppers)
• On average we had 160 runners per race:
  

  1 Denton,Ilkley	220
  2 Harlow Carr, Harrogate	189
  3 Starbeck	175
  4 Thirsk	150
  5 Hudswell	136
  6 Ripon Handicap	96

• Ian Fishers's average speed over races 1-5, used in calculating handicaps, was 5.06 minutes per mile (in the 5 races he varied between 4.92 and 5.13 minutes/mile). This predicted a handicap race time of 28:54, his actual 29:14 (5.11 mins/mile) got him 8th place.
• The handicaps were based on speed at each race relative to the winner, then averaged over the races done.
  There was no manual adjustment to the spreadsheet-calculated handicap. (No inducements were offered, alas).
  Although there seemed to be plenty of (expected, characteristic of runners) grumbling about individual handicaps, in the end, all finishers were within a 10 minute range, and about 90% of you finished within a 5 minute range (well done to Ripon's results recorders!).