How points are calculated
Rules and points system
- Minimum of 4 races in order to qualify for the championship
- Points will be awarded based on your finishing position in each race relative to your fellow Harriers as follows: 1st Harrier to finish = 20; 2nd = 18; 3rd = 16; 4th = 15; 5th = 14; 6th = 13 and so on down to 15th place scoring 1 point, with 0 points thereafter.
- 1 appearance point per race completed excluding your Joker (i.e. maximum 10 appearance points available). You must wear a club vest/t-shirt to score the appearance point.
Jokers
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A Joker is available for one accredited minimum 5 mile race with at least 75 finishers, run between 1st March and 30th September 2026. It is your responsibility to submit your chosen Joker by email (including a link to the results) to either club captain Graeme Warren or Monica Thomson. The closing date for joker submissions is Sunday 4th October 2026.
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Jokers are designed to help you if you are unable to participate in enough of the specified championship races to qualify and to allow you to choose a race in which you feel you performed particularly well.
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Joker races use a formula based on your performance relative to the male or female winners’ time. This is designed to normalise performances across distances and terrain. Based on this, once everyone has submitted their jokers, a ranking table across everyone’s joker races can be created for men/women with the highest scoring jokers ranked top and lowest scoring jokers ranked bottom. The above points system (20 for 1st, 18 for 2nd, etc.) are then applied and these scores added to the championship totals.
Detailed explanations and examples of the points calculations can be downloaded here.