Hope you all have received the email of my appointment as the new Road Manager, and some of the road racers for the rest of 2011. So for the Bingley Harriers road running championship for the coming 2011/2012 season, it is very difficult to chose races to give every one a fair chance of success. My idea is we do not have specific races, but any race to count from a 5k park run to any distance up to the marathon, so how will it work?.

You can do as many races or as few to have a chance of winning, but I think it only fair you complete at least three races. Any time for a race from 1500m to marathon will give you your current fitness level based on the famous Daniels Running Formula Vdot, this will convert to a number, the runner who improves that number the most in the coming year male & female will be Bingley's Road Champion.

I hope it will encourage to race more, and train harder, it will probably favour the new Harrier and runners on the come back trail. But I think we should not penalise our best runners so thy will be prizes for the highest number at the end of the year male & female, who will also be in with a chance of becoming Bingley Road Champion.

Google VDOT calculator if you want to check on your VDOT number, just put in your time for a current race.

Try this one

I thought we would start last weekend at the Horsforth 10K were we had a good team result team lead by Tim Midgley well done.

Tim Midgley 4th 35.20 VDOT 60
Sean Thompson 15th 38.17 VDOT 55
Paul Tiffany 27th 39.34 VDOT 53
Oliver Downing 48.02 VDOT42
Bruce McNeill 50.00 VDOT40
Sarah Callaghan 50.27 Amir Zaheer 53.31 VDOT37
Caroline McNeill 1.16.44 Heather Pearson 1.17.49

We had one runner at the Harewood 10K, Well done Marisol Carrea Vivar 1st lady and of course 1st F40 45.54 VDOT44

Send me all your results from last weekend 24th Sept, get yourself a VDOT number, then try and improve on it.

Latest standings here

Good Racing
John Smithurst
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